Melvin Josy
2022
Furniture, Narrative design
VALLAM
COLLECTION
COMING SOON ...
The Vallam collection is a tribute to the traditional sewn boats of Kerala, India known as “Kettu Vallam”. A dying craft practice of making boats for the backwaters of the land.
Jamfactory, Adelaide.
2022
Objects, Critical design
C-Para
COLLECTION
From the Plantation to planter. This series explores the life cycle of Rubber from its humble origin in plantations to its life as an industrial material. A Recollection of childhood memories of playing in rubber plantations of Kerala .
The structure of the planter is reminiscent of the way farmers attach the collection cups ( coconut shell ) on to the trees using metal wire.
Jamfactory, Adelaide.
2021
Furniture, Critical design
COALESCENCE
GRADUATION PROJECT
UNSW , SYDNEY.
Furniture as a ritualistic experience.
From merely “owning” and using a piece of furniture, the design demands a symbiotic relationship with the user. The decay/ageing of the furniture is exaggerated through design details and the user is provided with the necessary tools to revive the object into its initial form.
This ritualistic experience can ensure a longer lifespan of the product by establishing an emotional connection. By ritualising the maintenance of the object the user interact and establish a deeper connection as they becomes a part of the aging process.
UNSW , Sydney
2020
Lighting, Material exploration
RENATUS
Created using glass paper (made from iris grass), utilizing its subtle transparency in surfaces and the beauty of raw and irregular Deckle edges.
The meditative process of paper making is translated to create a interior product that celebrate the material qualities of the raw material used in the making. A quality stripped away from commercial production of paper.
UNSW , Sydney
2020
Lighting, Hybrid crafting
WINDFLOWER
Exploration done at UNSW Art & Design to understand the dialogue between traditional techniques and modern technology.
A Hybrid conceptual project that questions the duality that exists around us ; Tangible and intangible, geometric and organic, structured and delicate, traditional and modern .
UNSW , Sydney
2019
Lighting, Sculptural product
SELENE
As sculptural lighting inspired by the phases of moon. The Moon
tower hosts a brass casted hemisphere with a surface that mimics the
rugged Lunar surfaces. The Moon body rotates to radiate the light
from the source below, revealing the phases of moon
Studio SQ1 , New Delhi
Credit : Mayank Jayaswal
2018
Furniture
REMINISCENCE
Nature with it's plethora of colors and textures, surrounds us and fills our senses. The pallette of dawn, pattern on the flapping wings of an insect, everything experienced is inked in the mind of an impressionable child. The adult now, translates snippets of recollections into tangible forms.
Flashes of memories morphed into spilled ink on drawing board, rendered into reality in our collection - Reminiscence.
StudioSQ1 + A clay story,
New Delhi
2017
Furniture
DAWN COLLECTION
Launch collection of StudioSQ1. The furniture series explored how various landscapes interacted with the rising sun.
StudioSQ1, New Delhi
2016
Lighting
OLIO LAMPS
An exploration of symmetrical shapes and surface finishes , this lamp calls out to the building block loving child in you.
StudioSQ1 + A clay story, New Delhi
2015
Lighting
MOSS LAMP
An elegant, minimal Floor lamp inspired by the form of spore pods of mosses.
StudioSQ1, New Delhi
2015
Furniture / Lighting
HOVER COLLECTION
My childhood visits to zoology labs at near by university with my father revealed to me the huge variety of every species of insects, which made me observant every insects that came across ,later becoming an hobby i cherished. Hover collection is a recollection of those memories into a three dimensional form.
StudioSQ1, New Delhi
2014
Furniture / Lighting
'Andar Baahar'
COLLECTION
GRADUATION PROJECT ,
NIFT - NEW DELHI
An illusory collection of living space products, with a whimsical edge of
Indian street objects to them. Encapsulating Indian essence in everyday
objects that are essential to the life routine, but stayed unnoticed.
Sarthak Sahil Design,
New Delhi