DETAILS: Professor Arvind began his career as the coordinator, Chennai Design Cell of the National Institute of Design. During his tenure at NID he provided design services to industry especially to the small scale sector and government Institutions. Design of stackable chair in cane (rattan), landscape design of cafeteria, lay out of trade fair, Mixer-jar for small family, packaging for ceiling fan and office interior were some of the key projects.
MAJOR CLIENTS: His clients were
• ‘Poompuhar' the Tamilnadu Handicrafts Corporation, Tamilnadu Poultry Development Corporation,
• Tamilnadu Tourism Corporation,
• Madras Metropolitan development Agency,
• Sumeet Mixie
DATE: 1981 to 1983
POSITION: Self Employed in Chennai
DETAILS: Professional Design Consulting to Small Scale & Craft sector, Academic Institutions, Publishing, Hospitality & Advertising sector. The consultancy assignments included Educational material/aids, Development of Craft products in Soft Stone, Design Development & Promotion of Exhibition Display Systems, Interiors & landscape Design, Corporate Identity, Graphics of Gramophone Record Jackets, Book covers and layout Design, Brochures & catalogue, Instruction Manuals.
MAJOR CLIENTS: His clients were
• “Mandara” Educational Society ( Non Formal School for Children of weaker section),
• Craft Council of India ,
• ‘Cooptex” Tamilnadu Textiles Corporation,
• Tamilnadu Non-conventional Energy Development Agency,
• “Danida” Danish Development Agency,
• Hotel President Towers ,
• ‘The Hindu' News Paper,
• HMV Gramophone Company,
• Orient Longman Publishers,
• British Council,
• Haryana Handlooms Corporation,
• Himachal Tourism Corporation,
• Corel IT Systems,
DATE: 1984 to 1989
POSITION: Academic Programme Coordinator
ORGANISATION: Loyola Institute of Visual Communication, Loyola College , Chennai.
DETAILS: Academics, Curriculum development & Implementation of Academic programmes. Instituted country's first Degree programme in Madras University . Design Consulting to Jesuit Institutions. Conducting Media Education Programmes. Design & development of Educational material/aids, Development of Craft products, Design Development & Promotion of Exhibition Display Systems. Graphics & Logo Design. Design and Layout for House magazines.
MAJOR CLIENTS: Design consultancy to Loyola College ,
• Culture & communication institute,
• Craft council of India
• Hindustan earth Movers limited.
DATE: 1990 to 1997
POSITION: Self Employed in New Delhi
DETAILS: Professional Design Consulting - Small Scale & Craft sector, Academic Institutions, Publishing, Hospitality, Advertising & other sectors. The consultancy assignments included Design & Development of Corporate Gifts, Consumer-Product interface products like Point of purchase material, FMCG Product dispensers and product package. Design Development & Promotion of Exhibition Display Systems.
Design of Corporate Identity, Brochures & catalogue Design, Instruction Manuals Design. Educational material/aids. Development of Craft products in Wood & Bamboo, Design Development & Promotion of Exhibition Display Systems, News Letters & House Magazines and Interiors of Hero Puch Showrooms.
MAJOR CLIENTS: Gillette,
• Oral'B',
• Wilkinson Razors,
• Henko,
• Max Pharma,
• Bennet & colman,
• Materialmovement Limited,
• Personal Point,
• New Delhi YMCA,
• All things Beautiful,
• Catalist inc.,
• Easi Fit,
• Super sharp industries,
• Amex Aircoditioners,
• Hero Puch,
DATE: 1998 to 2005
POSITION: Sr. Faculty, Department of Fashion & Life-style accessory Design.
Center Coordinator, Department of Fashion & Life-style accessory Design.
Chairperson, Department of Fashion & Life-style accessory Design.
Professor, Department of Fashion & Life-style accessory Design.
Anchor, Foundation Programme.
Convenor, Cluster Development Initiative of NIFT.
Nodal Officer, Initiatives of NIFT, New Delhi & Regional design & Technical Development Center of the office of the Development Commissioner (Handicrafts).
ORGANISATION: National Institute of fashion Technology, New Delhi
DETAILS: Sr. Faculty, Department of Fashion & Life-style accessory Design. Fashion Education with a focus on development of Academic curriculum, Strategic planning, execution & management of academic programme. Development of learning & teaching resource materials. Assessment & Evaluation systems. Planning & establishing academic facilities & infrastructure. Promotional activities of academic programmes, Academic - industry interaction, linkages & networking. Identification, recruitment & training of faculty resource persons. Applied research & consultancy projects in the area of Accessories & lifestyle products. Placements & admissions.
Teaching assignment in Visual Studies, Advance Visual studies, Accessory products, process & context, Design Methodology, Product detailing & Hardware Design, Costume Jewelry design, accessory Collection, Craft documentation, Craft Based design Project, Presentation techniques, Elements of design, Form Studies and mentorship for more than 30 Graduation Projects.
Course Curriculum development of Accessory product, process & context. Accessory design Programme in NIFT Gandhinagar( Jewelry, Silverware & precious products) and Hyderabad (Interior products, craft, mix-medium & glass. Foundation Programme (4 year undergraduation Programme in design) Later restructuring of Accessory Design
Programme to Fashion & Life-style Accesory design Programme of 4 year duration.
Institutional Development activites in terms of planning & establishing facilities & infrastructure for Accessory design Programme in NIFT Gandhinagar (Jewelry, Silverware & precious products) and Hyderabad (Interior products, craft, mix-medium & glass. Foundation Programme (4 year undergraduation Programme in design) Later restructuring of Accessory Design Programme to Fashion & Life-style Accesory design Programme of 4 year duration. Generating class room and graduation project sponsorship through linkages with industry. Linkages with craft communities & NGOs for craft Documentation and craft projects.
Applied Research & Consultancy Projects:
CARE-FICCI-NIFT Initiative of rehabilitating the craft communities affected by the earthquake in Kutchh in 2002 through community mobilisation, Design & product Development, Skill enhancement & training for capacity & capability building.
UNIDO-SISI-TAI-NIFT Initiative of Design capacity & capability building of Toy industry through Design & product Development, Skill enhancement & training.
CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE OF NIFT through providing project framework, Diagnostic study, Community mobilisation, fund raising, networking with partnering institutions for craft cluster development.
CRAFT DEVELOPMENT PROJECT FOR DC (HANDICRAFTS) for contemporary application of crafts for Business Promotions and Design & product development in Jute material.
PRODUCT RANGE DEVELOPMENT FOR SPECIAL GROUPS. Action for Ability Development and Inclusion (AADI) as part of their objective & mission has been providing vocational training to persons with disability for socio-economic sustainability. Block Printing, Bag making, stationary products and products like photo frames etc. were some of the vocations adopted by the persons with disability.
Many of them are supported by either siblings or by caretaker in order to gain socio-economic sustainability. The project envisaged an interactive product development workshop with active participation of the selected special persons, the students of design, siblings & caretakers, AADI and NIFT Faculty members. The interactive product development workshop was targeted towards the special persons and the students of design as beneficiaries and was envisaged to achieve the objectives to gain insight into the process of innovation essentially geared towards expansion of product range within the context of the vocations adopted by the persons with disability and to enhance skills imperative to the market needs.
DOMESTIC TREND LANDSCAPE FOR HOME APPLIANCE project was a study & analysis of domestic trends of color, form, material, texture, and prints and the consumer preferences of the above in home appliances. The study was carried out for ‘Whirlpool' company.
KALASHKSHA PROGRAMME was development and structuring of an pedagogical tool for the craft communities of chhatisgarh state to internalise the aspect of recognition and conservation of identity through nurturing of both tangible and intangible interface of their heritage and to empower the communities to take conscious decisions to nurture the interface like market forces, new technology & design, product diversification.
DESIGN CAPABILITY ENHANCEMENT TRAINING PROGRAMME a two tier training system was evolved & adopted, for embroidery producer groups of ‘Poogal' area of Bikaner district, which strengthens the Design Capabilities of the master embroiderers and graduate them to officially acknowledged level of the Trainers. The Training Programme was launched as a pilot project and with an intention that on successful completion of the Programme the outcome and feedback of the programme should facilitate further promotion on long term and on sustainable basis.
DATE: 2005 to till date
POSITION: Self Employed in New Delhi
ORGANISATION: KBK Environ Infrastructure Limited
DETAILS: Professional Project to provide institutional framework for establishing a knowledge center which act as physical & intellectual infrastructure for fashion business enterprises within a Fashion Technology Park .
Awards & Achievements
Professor Arvind was invited to the symposium on ‘Design for Needs” at Royal College of Arts, London in 1976. He presented his project of Design of “Harvesting Implement”. He also visited several Design Educational institutes in Europe and Design firms. Later the same project got special mention in the ICSID award conferred to the National Institute of Design for its outstanding contribution in Design and design education.
Professor Arvind also visited Germany in 2002 to attend conference “Knowledge Management” organized by Design Management Institute, 29 Temple Place , Boston , MA 02111-1350 USA .
In 2005 Professor Arvind visited Beijing , China as part of a delegation of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII). During his visit he interacted with china's leading federations of fashion designers, Textile manufacturers, wool manufacturers and Fashion & Design Academic Institutes to develop cross platform for Fashion businesses.
Memberships
Member, Design Management Institute
29 Temple Place, Boston , MA 02111-1350 USA
Member, Administration Staff College of India
Bela Vista, Hyderabad, India
Ex Executive Committee Member, Craft Council of India, Chennai.
