Kaholie Revi is an Industrial and Product designer with a professional Bachelors in Design (B. Des.) degree in Industrial Arts & Design Practices from the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, one of India’s leading design schools.

She has undertaken a year of client-facing design assignments as part of her final year at Srishti. Her thesis project involved the redesign of an existing product line of solar PV streetlights for SEL-CO Foundation, significantly reducing life cycle costs and embodied energy, improving functional efficiency and meeting BIS lighting standards. An earlier consumer product design assignment for Tupperware involved the design of cream separation and milk storage containers in industrial plastic based on detailed research on Indian kitchen practices.

Her body of internship and student work spans industrial, product and furniture design; with a strongemphasis on design research and analysis, communication design and product photography;documentation and writing; software use and sound design. Kaholie has a deep personal interest inbiomimicry and innovative design.

She has functional skills in working with metal, industrial plastics, glass, acrylic, f ibreglass, wood,bamboo and other composites; textiles and fabric; paper and paper mache, clay and terra cotta inindustrial and SME units; artisan and college workshops and at the KAARU and Prakrit designstudios.

She has a good social and organisational skills, having helped manage a number of designprocesses. Kaholie has well-rounded set of artistic skills ranging from art, photography and sounddesign to music and theatre. She is skilled in oral and written communication, creative writing andideation, is widely read and travelled in India, Europe, North and South America and Africa.

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ABO UT M E

r.kaholie@gmail.com Bangalore/New Delhi

ED U CAT I O N

B.Des. (IADP): Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore (2012-16)

Specialisation: Industrial, product and furniture design; with an emphasis on design research and systems design

C O N TA C T D E TA I L S

I N D U S T R I A L A R T S A N D D E S I G N P R A C T I C E S

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Thesis project: Redesigning Solar StreetlightsClient: SELCO Foundation as part of Lemelson Foundation LED Lightly - Inventing GreenDecentralised Renewable Energy project

School: Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, New Delhi (2-2012) 89 percent in (CBSE) AISSCE examinationwith psychology, sociology, political science and history.

WO RK/ I NTERNSH I P E XPER I EN CE

G EN ER AL SK I LLS AN D COM PETEN C I ES

Industrial and consumer product design for Tupperware, Dehradun ( July-December 2015)Furniture and landscape design at Prakrit, Auroville (May-July 2015)Furniture and product design at KAARU, Delhi (May-June 2013)

Industrial and product design; systems design; product analysis, design research and management;innovation and biomimicry; technical drawing and software rendering; communication design andproduct photography; documentation and writing; furniture and spatial design.

MaterialsFamiliarity with the following materials:Metal, industrial plastics, glass, acrylic, f ibreglass, wood, bamboo and other composites; textiles andfabric; paper and paper mache, clay and terra cotta

Artistic Skills

Art: Digital art, sketching, pattern making, technical drawing, colour composition, origami, includingworkshops at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA)

Photography: Digital product photography using DSLR and Photoshop applications

Sound: Digital sound production, mixing and vocal tracks with Jatin (Mastajusti), musical instrumentdesign

Theatre: National School of Drama (NSD) and Akshara Theatre production and workshops withJalabala Vaidya and Gopal Sharman

Music: trained in Hindustani classical and western classical vocals at Delhi School of Music

Design research: product research and analysis; systems and business model design; visualcommunication, digital and print production

Communication skillsExcellent oral presentation skills, documentation, writing articles, poetry and lyrics, televisionpresentation, theatre training and performance experience at the National School of Drama andAkshara Theatre workshops

RESE ARCH SK I LLS

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Organizational skillsManaging design teams; exhibition curation and event management; outreach and campaigns

Social skillsGood at human relations, team work, communication and conflict resolution

TECH N I CAL AN D SO FT WARE SK I LLS

Drawing: Technical and industrial drawings, illustration and sketches

3-D modelling and rendering: Google Sketch Up, 3D Max, Auto CAD, Rhino

Communication design: Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator; Corel Draw, In Design

Sound design: Cubase, Ableton

Documentation and writing: Microsoft Office

CO U RSES I N SR I SHT I (2 0 1 2 - 2 0 1 6 )

Material Exploraion

Elements of Making

Crafting with Metal

Paper Furniture

Simple Furniture

Invisible Cities

Workspace 2020 and beyond

Product Analysis

Product Communication

Understanding materials

Introducing materials and 3-D manufacturing

Exploring metal craft and design

Rigid and durable furniture from paper

Basic Furniture design

Understanding the built environment

Design of future workspaces

Product functional and utility analysis

Effective product communication

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COURSE CONTENT

D R AW I N G , A R T A N D V I S U A L C O M M U N I C AT I O N

Drawing

Advanced Drawing

History of Art

Art History and Culture

Print Design

Print Publication

Building drawing skills

Refining 3-D drawing skills

Art appreciation

Art and culture as learning opportunities

Print design for summer collection

Print publication design

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Design Principles

History of Design

Biomimicry

Sound as a Medium

Basic principles of design

Changing role of the designer

Use of biomimicry in design

Sound design and installation

D E S I G N M E T H O D S

Strange Attractors

Design Software

Creative Coding

Systems thinking

Use of key design software

Programming concepts

S Y S T E M S A N D S O F T WA R E

Tupperware, Everything Milk

Decentralized renewable Energy, Led Lightly

Product Design for Liquids

Redesigning P.V. Solar Streetlights,

Redesigning Systems for Solar Streetlight

F I N A L Y E A R

PERSO NAL D ETA I LS

Date of Birth: 22 October 1993

LanguagesEnglish: reading, writing and speakingHindi: reading, writing and speaking

Countries visited: Austria, China, Denmark, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain,South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA,

Hobbies and SportsLooking after animalsMusic, photography, reading, writing poetry, sketching, cinema and cookingSwimming, volleyball, football, skiing and playing MMORPGs.

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REFEREN CES

Toine van MeganPrincipal Auroville Consulting and former CEO, SuzlonSaracon, Kottakarai, Irumbai, Auroville 605111 India

Sanjay PrakashPrincipal, SHiFT Studio for Habitat FuturesE-31, Third Floor, Hauz Khas Market, New Delhi 110016 India

Torkil DantzerPrakrit, Centre for Scientific Research, Auroshilpam Auroville 605111 India

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Sanjib ChatterjeePrincipal, KAARUC- 7, Club Drive Road, Ghitorni, New Delhi 110 030 India

David SGHead of Workshop, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and TechnologyYelahanka, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560 106 India

Rustam VaniaDean of Projects, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and TechnologyYelahanka, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560 106 India