For explorations, visibility was one of the main criterions for selecting the products because the receiver should be reminded of the giver and the user should be proud of using the object. After initial ideations, the next stage of concept generation was carried out for different product categories.

Below are the explorations and concept generation of different products like -
• Vases
• The Coaster
• The Paperweights
• Key Rings
• The Dairy

That can be used as corporate gifts.

Vases:
Complete absence of products in the category, which is an unusual application in a material like leather. Vases though given as corporate gifts can find a place at home or at office, on the tabletop or display shelf increasing the visibility.

Concept - 01:
Exploring leather as sheet metal using vertical layers of leather.

Concept - 02:
Encasing leather over a substrate like glass, metal or wood and to explore leather as a woven material in a very fine form.

Concept - 03:
Encasing leather over a substrate with organic form like deformed glass, metal or wood and to explore leather as a woven material.

The Selected one:
Concept-01 was selected and further explored.

The Coaster:
One of the most visible tabletop products. Variety of shapes that the object can take with a sheet material like leather. The chosen product can be given as a gift on most of the occasions.

Concept - 01:
Inlay work with very fine Puzzle like curves combined with various patterns for borders.

Concept - 02:
Leather as a transparent material is explored in this concept.

Concept - 03:
The concept explores the possibilities of a 3d coaster in leather.

The Selected one:
The versatility and variations possible in Concept 01 was combined with the unusual triangular form of Concept-03 were combined and further explored.

The Paperweights:
One of the most visible tabletop products. Variety of forms and shapes that the object can take with different materials. Easy access to the human hand and frequency of use.

Concept - 01:
Tactility of leather was explored by combining the techniques of encasing leather in a substrate and encasing hard smaller objects like steel balls or wooden beads.

Concept - 02:
Leather as a see only material or an object made in leather ‘frozen in time’.

Concept - 03:
Encasing leather with materials like sheet glass, glass marbles, steel balls.

The Selected one:
Concept-01, selected for further form and tactile exploration. To highlight the pattern and texture a hemisphere with a convex base so as to keep the form as a background. Visual texture creates a continuous drama with different lighting conditions.

Key Rings:
One of the most visible, utilitarian personal products. The chosen product can be given as a gift on most of the occasions. The chosen product can be grouped as a gift along with other smaller gifts.

Concept - 01:
The human body as the main form generator.

Concept - 02:
Encasing objects in leather adapted to be used as a key ring.

The Selected one:
Concept-02 selected for further exploration with different surface treatments and locking mechanisms.

The Dairy:
One of the most visible, utilitarian personal products. The chosen product can be given as a gift on most of the occasions. The chosen product can be grouped as a gift along with other smaller gifts.

Concept - 01:
Butterfly as a metaphor chosen for its color and its unique signs of identification.

Concept - 02:
Use of Maple leaf as a metaphor considered due to the unique shape of the Maple leaf.

Concept - 03:
Attempt made to achieve 3D effect by overlapping rectangles.

The Selected one:
Concept 01 was selected and further explored.

Case Study Downloads:
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