RETAIL - working on the concept

I first drew the path of the foot prints of a dance step and I tried to get shapes from that.

foot step of a dance movement

Then I drew some poses in the classical Indian dances. It was pretty interesting. All the dances had so many different postures.

pose in bharathanatyam dance

 face make-up for the kathakali dance

pose in kuchipudi dance

pose in bharathanatyam dance

spinning step in kathak dance

pose in bharathanatyam dance

step in kathak dance

pose in bharathanatyam 

RETAIL - building a concept

I was influenced by this traditional Indian classical dances because they had a very deep root in the Indian culture and in their celebrations.

RETAIL - brand research work

I wanted to design a retail for Indian traditional clothes like saree, shalwar and sherwani. I studied about their celebrations.

  
 
Especially the Hindu weddings celebrate the function for 3 or 4 days and each day the bride and the bride groom wears new clothes.


In most of their celebrations and functions,  food and new apparel plays a major role. Especially when it comes to ladies they prefer wearing the most elegant wear called saree. Then I did a research on the demography. Which is shown in these pictures of my development pages.

I found that even in Sri Lanka people wear the Indian wears like sarees and shalwars. So I thought that  it would be a good business on the whole.

I also did a research about the brand and its logo.

Retail - site visit

We were asked to design the interior of a famous garment outlet called "Fashion Bug" which is in Colombo. I have already been there so many times so it wasn't that exciting. But it was the first time I went and measured a public place with my class mates. We had to measure the whole building within a short period and that was a very difficult task. We split in to groups and some how measured it. 

PHOTOGRAPHY - can Colombo get any better!?

When I joined my college, the first thing we were asked to do was a portfolio, but due to some issues it was cancelled. But I already started my work. The initial work of that was to select a topic and take photographs related to that topic.I thought of doing about "POVERTY" in Colombo.

 I didn't have a DSLR, but I  had  digital camera so I took that and went around Colombo and took some random photographs of beggars. It was a very different experience. When I asked for permission from them to take photographs, most of them demanded for money. But some were really kind. They even shared their tragedies and how they ended up begging in the streets of Colombo. One thing that I noticed in most of them were, an arrogant attitude towards the other people. Most of all it was so pathetic to see the kids being brought up in that environment. I hope that at least they end up in a better place.