Architecture & Interiors
How to design a Museum
India has a rich cultural and social history. The various dynasties which ruled our country, their traditions and values, rituals, dances and folklores have been being practised here since times unknown. The treasure of...
Architecture & Interiors
Retail Design : A Market on its Own!
Retail sector in India is one of the fastest growing sector which is undoubtedly an experimental motley consistently going through a trendy transformation. One can always visualize, new store formats, new customer – product...
Architecture & Interiors
Ar. BV Doshi wins 2018 Pritzker Prize
There's been no budding designer, architect or environmentalist in India, who hasn't idolized Ar. BV Doshi! At 90 years old, Ar. Doshi has been awarded the highest Architectural honor, equivalent to a Nobel Prize...
Art
India Fashion Summit : Kochi 2018
In an attempt to bridge the gap between fashion industry in India and abroad, it was essential to initiate a kind of meet and greet between the world and Indian fashion. The initial thought...
Fashion & Lifestyle
Best Holi Looks
The festival of colors is upon us and just in time! The weather's getting hot and the atmosphere is charged with energy, and it's the perfect time to let your hair down and indulge...
Fashion & Lifestyle
How to get the best Bollywood looks!
"That's so me!!!", we exclaim every time we see some Bollywood movie, as we relate to the central characters and their life. How many of us have seen ourselves as the strong and independent...
Architecture & Interiors
From House to Home!
People have this bizarre notion that a house once designed, needs no work. But this is so not true! It is the little things we do, that make our house, our homes and haven!...
Architecture & Interiors
Toilets – A designer’s guide!
Why are toilets always so drab and boring? Why do we uplift the entire house but neglect our washrooms? In this age, toilets are not just for bathing and relieving, but also for deep...
Architecture & Interiors
The story of IKEA!
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like, Design is how it works!" - Mr. Ingvar Kamprad - Founder, IKEA.
It is true what they say about necessity being the mother of...
Careers & Professional Development
Career Options After Fashion Design
Designers in any field, go through a lot of training to imbibe that thought process and to become experts in developing new ideas and deriving concepts. Thus, a lot of fields and job prospects...
Careers & Professional Development
LE’ORA 2018 – The Avant Garde Couture
Deep down the heart of every plain Jane is a desire to crack the mundane shell of ordinary clothing and portray an irrational trend to the world of fashion. But how often do they...
Fashion & Lifestyle
How to rock silver jewelry!
Silver jewelry is trending and how! Fashion temperatures are soaring with this incredibly Indian yet modern style, and everyone wants a piece of the action! Ofcourse, being in India, we know that there are...
Architecture & Interiors
10 Incredible Ideas for your Backyard!
Backyards are usually a very underrated place in Indian homes. We all have them, but they are invariably used for hanging clothes, as a washing space, as parking or just an empty grass garden....
Architecture & Interiors
Why Designers should Travel!
A lot of words like wanderlust, travel diaries, travel tales etc. have surfaced of late. Travelling has become the new it thing, which everyone must do! And why not? Going to a new place,...
Careers & Professional Development
How to become the best Interior Designer!
Being an interior designer, or in fact, any designer is not a mean feat! Coming up with new ideas and innovating in materials, furniture and designs is a difficult task. In comparison to other...
Architecture & Interiors
10 Career Options after becoming an Interior Designer!
Do you dream of becoming a successful professional? Do you dread 9-5 jobs? Are you a creative individual? Do you observe things around you in great detail? Most importantly, do you want to be...
Careers & Professional Development
10 reasons why Cindrebay is the Best Design School!
"Design creates culture,
Culture shapes values,
Values determine the future!"
Design, is such a vast and dynamic field that it is essential to drive home design lessons using creative, innovative and new teaching methods. Encouraging young minds...
Careers & Professional Development
“FASHIONBAY” Presents: GO GLAM – Makeup Workshop!!!
“I believe all women are pretty without makeup. But, with the right makeup, they can be pretty powerful!” – Bobbi Brown
Self-grooming and personality development are an integral part of our personas. The clothes we...
Architecture & Interiors
From Housewives to Professionals – Choose Design!!
Choose Design! Choose Cindrebay!!!
From picking the perfect rug, to collecting the right accessories over a period of time, to maintaining and decorating the house, it has always been the joy of our moms to...
Architecture & Interiors
Patterns In Interiors – Do’s and Don’t s
Of late, interior design has seen a major surge in the number of patterns, textures and materials being used. Gone are the times of plain, dull and boring walls. Creative imagery, eye catching motifs,...
Careers & Professional Development
“FASHIONBAY” Presents: FASHION UNDER THE VEIL!
Fashion is many things. It is glam, it is style, it is modest. Wait, what? Modest? The term “Modest Fashion” itself is an oxymoron. We usually see models wearing the skimpiest of clothes on...
Architecture & Interiors
Must Have Modern Furniture!
"Furniture is to spaces what limbs are to the human body."
A space, however well designed, well lit, is incomplete and inappropriate without suitable furniture. Modern furniture is all about clean lines, simplicity, minimalism and...
Architecture & Interiors
IMPRESSIONS : The play of Concepts!!
"Every great Design begins with an even greater story."
Stories are born from an inspiration that the designer either seeks for or stumbles over while brainstorming ideas. But again how the story merges seamlessly in...
Architecture & Interiors
Date With A Designer : Ar. Sonal Birdi (Villa 55)
Cafes and restaurants, irrespective of where they’re situated in the world, always have something in common. They exude charm, create a relaxing ambience and call you in. Villa 55, the newest addition to Nagpur’s...
Architecture & Interiors
From Shabby To Chic – Easy Home Decor DIYs!
We have time and again seen dreamy pictures of homes and houses on the internet and fantasized about having that perfect nest. A cozy bed to relax after a tiring day, a study space...
Careers & Professional Development
Best Diwali Looks – Curated Fashion within your budget!!
Diwali is the time to let your hair loose and have fun. Cleaning your homes, meeting friends and family, gorging on sweets, bathing your house in lights, it's all part of the fun and...
Architecture & Interiors
“THE VOID” presents : Pottery Workshop
Materials have a huge a role in the way any design shapes up. Be it in fashion, or interiors, materials can make or break a design. Understanding the way different materials behave under different...
Careers & Professional Development
BIDDING ADIEU – An unforgettable farewell to Trivandrum Cindrebay’s Pioneer Batch
“At the end of the road is the beginning of a new adventure”
On 22nd September 2017 students of Cindrebay Trivandrum organized a going away party for the first outgoing batch of Diploma/PG Interior Design....
Careers & Professional Development
Rejoicing in the harvest festival – ONAM!
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left - Victor Hugo
In this age of celebrations that appear and leave as quick as the Instagram posts, we at Cindrebay Trivandrum brought together "Paithrikum";...
Architecture & Interiors
“The Void” presents – Wood Working Workshop
"There is no such thing as bad ideas. Just poorly executed awesome ideas."
A famous line from a well known series, this statement rings true for all of us. More often than not, that we...
Careers & Professional Development
“The Void” Presents : Haute Chic – Grooming Workshop
Since ancient times, fashion has been deeply interwoven with our life. It is an integral part of our identity and is unique to every individual. Be it real life fashion icons like Audrey Hepburn...
Architecture & Interiors
WHY IS “WHY” THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION IN DESIGN??
Everyone of us, as children, incessantly asked the question "Why" on hearing any statement. Every fact, every sentence was treated as a hypothesis which required proof and lengthy argumentative discussions. Only when we got...
Architecture & Interiors
THE VOID – Bridging the gap, one conclave at a time!!
“Power is gained by sharing knowledge, not hoarding it.”
When was the last time you listened without interrupting? Spoke without being judged? Heard not to reply but to truly register information? Shared anything without expecting...
Architecture & Interiors
Using technology as a learning tool – 3D printing week
The atmosphere at Cindrebay School of Fashion and Interior Design, came alive last week when they got “Julia” in the campus. No, ‘Julia’ isn’t a new student, it’s the name of the 3D printer...
Architecture & Interiors
The Void IV: 3D printing workshop
What if?
Two words, 6 letters which have haunted human minds since centuries. Scientists and innovators have dedicated their lives in the pursuit of What If? Moms and dads every day in all parts of...
Architecture & Interiors
The right & wrong reasons to choose Architecture!
(WARNING: In case you are afraid to get your nails chipped, or hate the pungent smell of fresh paint, your eyes burn with the smell of freshly polished wood or need 8 hours of...
inner-banner
The Dress Bank: Rent, wear, flaunt high end fashion
Diana Vreeland, the noted fashion columnist had put it succinctly when she made this famous remark “I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.” Vreeland’s love for vanity is shared by many of us....
General
The Void I: Two Day Furniture Design Workshop on ‘Bio-Mimicry’ at Cindrebay Nagpur
Asad Firdosy – In pursuit of Art.
Asad Firdos – An Architect by qualification, furniture designer as his vocation and a craftsman at heart. He took architecture as a profession as his father suggested that...
General
AURA 2017- A Magnificent Manifestation of Creative Arts and Design
According to the theorist Walter Benjamin, the concept of ‘aura’ refers to the authenticity and originality of an art work which is often lost in the modern world where there are technological reproductions of...
General
Expert corner: Spatial Nature of windows
Windows are surface elements with great presence on both exterior and interior sides. It is fairly a complex entity against the comparatively simplistic wall, but a surface that is penetrable. Its surface is very...
Architecture & Interiors
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016: From Kochi with love
Fort Kochi exudes a certain romanticism, maybe it is the beauty of the Arabian sea neighbouring it, or the old narrow lanes that are constantly jostling for a place with the new. It is...
General
‘Desically’, it’s time to go Ethnic!
There’s something absolutely magical about ‘Desi’ (Indian) products; the kalamkari and ikhat prints, beautiful handmade silver jewellery that are sold in small shops across many streets in the interior parts of the country, weaved...
General
Expert Corner: The romance of the Sheer Fabric
There’s nothing prettier and more subtly enticing as a sheer fabric in the fabric world. It is complete in its simplicity and yet manages to charm anyone who comes in close contact with it.
Sheer...
Fashion & Lifestyle
Shalini James: Celebrating the vibrancy of Indian colours
By her own admission, she is a raconteur who believes in using Indian cultural motifs, incorporating them into textiles and converting them into stories embedded in fashion. Shalini James is undoubtedly one of the...
Fashion & Lifestyle
KarmaSuthra: The Queen of Dramatic Jewellery
“I had absolutely no interest in jewellery or anything pretty for that matter,” says 41-year-old Divya Thomas almost nonchalantly. The seemingly innocuous statement would not have mattered had it been uttered by someone else....
Careers & Professional Development
How to make the perfect CV for that perfect job
CV or curriculum vitae is one of the most important document you will possess in your professional life. It comprises everything; your work experience, skills, and other important details. But more importantly a good...