Industrial Design

Industrial Designer — heritage and luxury

Ornate, jewel-inspired product design, where the detail is the product and making it at volume is the difficult part.

Experience: 3–8 years
Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
Engagement: Project-based to start, with scope to extend.

Hybrid.

Detailed, decorative forms are straightforward to draw and much harder to produce at volume without falling back on hand-finishing. That is the problem this work sits in.

It suits a designer with a feel for craft who is also interested in how an ornate form gets tooled, plated and assembled.

What you will own

Decorative form and detail, from motif through to geometry that can be made
Material, finish and plating specification
Working with the tool room on undercuts, texture and finish
Staying with the design from concept through first article

What we need

Three to eight years in product design, with genuinely detailed or decorative work
A portfolio with decorative work that was actually manufactured
Understanding of plating, texturing and secondary finishing
Patience with the constraints decoration puts on tooling

What helps

Jewellery, giftware, decorative lighting or heritage product categories
Zinc die-casting or metal finishing experience
Craft or making practice of your own

Being straight with you

Restraint matters more than invention here. A lot of the skill is knowing which details to take out so the ones that remain are legible.

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