Yusuf Mannan

Working with clients to create layouts and colour schemes appropriate to their home decor and assisting customers to select furniture and accessories that compliment their spaces

+ To train and supervise the tasks of manufacturers through ‘Cluster Supervisors’ assigned to specific clusters.
+ Engage in product development in a commercially sustainable manner.
+ Train young team of cluster supervisors so they are able to guide the manufacturers in producing desired output.

Part of a three member team, Hidish, a furniture designer from Shrishti and Kuldeep a product designer form NID, we have worked on different platforms of design ranging from furniture, set design, communication, institutional, retail and lifestyle products. Our workshop, in Hore Mau catered to the requirements of prototyping and small scale production.

The work at RF square involved designing one of a kind concept stores for leading fashion and clothing brands. Responsibilities included client requirement gathering, ideating and providing multiple concepts, coordinating and supervising on site for complete execution of projects.
Design work included softer issues relating to the front end of the store design which were furniture, display systems, lighting, flooring, and the subsequent civil work for the site.
Intensive development was also undertaken relating to systems design for displaying and stacking merchandise as the back end of retail, basically fixture design. I worked in conjunction with a team of engineers to develop these systems.

A range of lively desktop accessories were developed which were successfully marketed to large corporate houses as gifting items.
A range of children’s furniture was also developed for the home and educational environments.

A series of kinetic toys conceptualized using household waste and simply designed for easy make by children. The process of making the toys was developed into a 12 episode children’s film to be broadcast on Channel POGO, Star Network. The project continues to enjoy viewer ship on POGO.
Each 5 minute film gives a step by step instruction of how to convert waste into kinetic toys. Using basic principles of physics, simple objects can be transformed into magical toys. The films emphasize on using the imagination of a child to convert everyday mundane things and help save the environment in the process.

Developed a range of Furniture and Lifestyle Accessories made out of factory fallout. A truck load of odd sized wood pieces were being disposed off every week as waste. The idea was to make smaller low value products which could be periodically made as per the waste generated. Products developed were a range of coffee tables, stools, lamps, CD racks, magazine racks etc.