Aman
Maheshwari
Masters in Apparel Design
Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering
Currently working at Holosuit Pvt.ltd,
Mysore, Karnataka.
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Service design, Product design, Design Strategist, UX researcher
Projects
Project management and planning
Client project
A new collection of designer garments were made from a big pile of old, and unused, used, torn, degraded clothes. Different elements like prints, stitching etc were added to up-cycle the product
Wearable Tech: Designing motion capture suit
Client project
Garments, that have an integrated system of electronics, or a special functionality integrated into them. Their uses can be very multidisciplinary. ranging from a suit that allows the wearer to control a humanoid robot, firefighting suits that can protect the wearer from extremely high temperature etc
H&M Recycling/Up-cycling of old garments
A prototype was made with the concept of using Non Newtonian Fluids in Protective Wears
Liquid Body Armor
Non Newtonian Fluids
Designing 10 Rs &
20 Rs coin for RBI
Digital
Different graphic work was done for different events like college elections, promoting a food stall, designing a sports dress that makes the wearer feel more confident because of its color code, color psychology and many more.
Furniture and other Wooden Products
Product designing and making
While watching a documentary on wine making, I found that the wine is stored in wooden barrels and this enhances it's taste. Getting inspired from this fact, I made a wine glass from rose wood using a lathe machin.
Dying and Printing
Textiles
Different explorations with textiles, weaving, dying&printing, testing for composition, different seams and joineries etc
Garments and Drapes
Constructing garments and studying
Construction of garments is a wide area with different styles of construction internationally. Learning about the uniform of ancient warriors, European rulers, traditional drapes of the common man and many more
Origami
Paper and textile
An avanguard jacket was made using origami techniques. Origami is used in various places, from the cardboard of packaging material to solar panels of satellites in space.
Recycling Textile Waste
Predominantly natural fiber waste was recycled and converted into a sheet based product. Composite was made from shredded denim and by using optical fibers, in that composite, a house interior was made.
SOME
Achievements
1- Project accepted by Gujarat Government and funds sanctioned for research on "Recycling Textile Waste"
2- The work got displayed in an international college and published on the college's website.
Saxion University of Applied Science, The Netherlands
https://www.fablabenschede.nl/project-recurf-up/
Project 9
System design: Dating
Research, identifying problems and proposing solutions
Studying dating as a system. Identifying common behaviours, pattern, technological interference, religious influences etc and designing a system with removed identified problems in the existing systems. (Especially online dating)
