We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Heloise Rajkumari about their original and creative Sculptural Vase design work. Heloise Rajkumari is an award-winning communication designer, that makes our world a better place with their original sculptural vase works.
Heloise Rajkumari ("HR") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Follow Me Sculptural Vase. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
HR : The main idea is to design a vase which aids in flower arrangement and also improves the post harvest life of cut flowers.
HR : I wanted the vase to aid flower arrangement in different patterns and make addition of water easy without disturbing the arrangement and at the same time to allow air circulation around the stems.
HR : I would like to commercialize it.
HR : This particular concept was designed for those who love flower arrangement. I decided to pursuit an inspiration.
HR : I wanted to provide arrangement aids so that users can arranged in a pattern. So, the bird Peacock inspired me to developed the form into a bird with long upright tail and a detachable wing piece which has perforations in a pattern. The semi open form also helps in air circulation for reducing bacterial growth.
HR : Flower lovers.
HR : Follow Me does not only hold flowers. It provides aids for arranging flowers in a pattern and also improves the post harvest life of cut flowers by reducing bacterial growth around the stems due to semi open form. Water or chemical solutions can be easily added below the wing piece without disturbing the flower arrangement. And more over the vase has been designed to be a functional sculpture.
HR : "Follow Me" means follow the patterns on the wing piece to arrange the flowers.
HR : Solidworks, Keyshot
HR : Arrangement aids in pattern and semi open form, detachable wing pieces.
HR : During manufacturing
HR : Research on improving post harvest life of cut flowers and conditioning of flowers.
HR : The challenge was to solve a conflicting criterion and bring the bird form and functions together. For easy adding of water, wide mouth is good but it does not provide enough aid for arranging flowers in pattern. Additional aid may be needed for arrangement. The design has been developed as semi open form with three pieces separating the conflicting functions. The perforated wing part serves as the aid, while user can easily add water below the wings. The large gap also allows air circulation.
HR : I felt it was a good design.
