Nithin Jacob Eapen

Portfolio

He graduated from the National Institute of Fashion Technology(NIFT), Bangalore, India in 2012 after which he indulged in work in the material-based industry for four and a half years till 2016. He was the co-founder of a brand that upcycle products to better standards for about a year till 2016. His Master's degree in Industrial Design from Scuola Politecnica Di Design(SPD) 2017 has opened new opportunities for working with professionally acclaimed designers. The initiative from SPD, essential and designer Matteo Rani exhibited his product in Milan design week 2017.

Product design

He is a product designer, someone who creates solutions to design prompts and problems. He uses their technical knowledge and creative design skills to design, create, and test products.

He started his carrier as a lifestyle product designer, designing personal and home products from his bachelor's time. He has designed bags for Fastrack, jewellery for brands in Bangalore, and worked in Milan, Italy with award-winning brands that developed extreme sportswear products. He has mostly worked in Como, Italy to work with a camera accessory design firm developing matt boxes, camera cages and related accessories.

Retail design

He has worked with one of the top three firms in India developing retail store fixtures. His carrier in Disha Retail Fixtures as a product designer has given him immense exposure to develop product from paper to production and to sale of the same. These products were exhibited in various retail exhibitions around India.

Exhibition Design

He designed and executed the exhibition with the Disha Retail Fixtures brand in the venues of VM&RD Retail Design Awards in 2013, 2014 and 2016. The exhibition is attended by participants from pan India.

Furniture design

His passion for product design has driven him towards developing furniture design. His furniture is mostly developed from his interest in creating a unique products. His clients are mostly homeowners who want to personalise their space.

Jewellery design

His design in jewellery was inspired by nature and sustainable objects. Even though jewellery design is not his core space of expertise he has extended his design knowledge from accessory design to understand the demographics of his market space in jewellery design.