ritwik dey

 

 

 

 

Project X

I'm currently working on one of those super secretive projects that involve numerous NDAs and vows of silence until the project goes live. Treat this as a placeholder for a huge announcement, and an assurance that I'm not unemployed.

 

The India Collective

The Collective is a group of young professionals from varied disciplines that combine skills to contribute to community-oriented socio-developmental projects. All projects for the Collective are executed free of cost.

+ indiacollective.org

 

Nokia Nseries

I've been working on various sections of nseries.com, the global website for Nokia's premium line-up of mobile devices. I'm inolved with concepting for global and North American campaigns, and interaction design for the site and related media.

+ nseries.com
+ screenshots of the older version

 

EMcounter

EMcounter is an epidemiological tool designed to capture patient encounters presenting to the emergency departments, casualty wards, and out-patient departments of health care centers across India.

I'm working in collaboration with medical professionals and technologists to visualize patient data in an attempt to study patterns, causalities and deficiencies in the system of emergency medicine in India.

+ emcounter.com

 

MumbaiVoices

The MumbaiVoices project offered ordinary citizens an opportunity to reflect on the disaster response in the aftermath of the blasts on July 11, 2006 in Mumbai, examine the strengths and weakness, and collectively discuss desirable next steps to strengthen their response in the future.

+ mumbaivoices.com

 

MobileCamps

As part of a small team of mobile enthusiasts, and with sponsorship from Nseries, I helped organize a series of barcamps focused on mobile technology. The camp provided a platform for hobbyists and professionals to talk about pet projetcs, share knowledge, and basically, have fun.

+ barcamp.org/MobileCamps

 

MFA Thesis - Toward Remission

This is my graduate thesis project, and by far, the most enjoyable learning experience of my life. Conceived and developed over 18 months, the project is an interactive visualization that examines human presence in the context of Earth as a living system. It forces the audience to wrestle with issues of behavior, consequence and sustainable co-existence.

+ thesis site and project demo
+ screenshots and sketches

 

FourthWall

This was an interactive wall designed and built for Second Stage Theatre. I worked as part of a student team to visualize and present a timeline of the theatre's productions in a physical space where patrons could interact with it. The timeline could also be accessed from kiosks at different locations within the theatre.

+ concept diagrams
+ pictures on site

 

ImagePaint

ImagePaint was conceived as a plugin for Adobe Illustrator to create dynamic collages using images from the Internet. Paths or shapes within Illustrator would be tagged with keywords. The plugin would source images based on those keywords and populate the corresponding wireframes. The size, shape, orientation and placement of the images would be controlled by the algorithm selected. The resulting collage could also be set to refresh periodically.

+ concept diagrams

 

LifeMap

This information design piece maps out my interests between ages 6 and 24 and the context in which they were born and nurtured. It also brings to surface how these interests influenced and were in turn influenced by milestones in my personal journey.

+ larger version

 

Package Status

This was designed in response to an information design problem presented to my studio class at Parsons. We were tasked with devising a visual language to represent all stages of a package in as it passed through Siemens's logistics facility. My design allowed for packages to be represnted at various degrees of scale, reported status and also allowed for filtering based on a number of criteria.

+ larger version

 

Posters & Identity

This is an assortment of posters and logos I've designed for friends as well assignments at Parsons. In the process of designing these I realized that design was my true calling, and decided to make a career change.

+ poster and identity designs

 

Title Sequences

I designed the opening and closing title sequences for the movie Patch Adams as part of a re-design assignment at Parsons. As it turned out, my storyboard sketches felt more appropriate than the live action footage I'd shot, and I ended up using them in the sequence.

+ opening titles
+ storyboard sketches