Play taash this Diwali with a set of playing cards that have your picture on them. Designer Nidhi Agrawal uses personal snapshots from your album to customise baby cribs, aprons, poker chips, blankets, even toilet seats and tissue rolls
Play taash this Diwali with a set of playing cards that have your picture on them. Designer Nidhi Agrawal uses personal snapshots from your album to customise baby cribs, aprons, poker chips, blankets, even toilet seats and tissue rolls
This one is for megalomaniacs. Or maybe for nostalgia diggers who aren't satisfied with photographs of that wild birthday party or vacation in Ibiza lying trapped in a digicam.
Whatever their character sketch, Nidhi Agrawal's clients dig the fact that she provides a customised service that allows them to transfer their fondest memories on to utility products, home decor items, furnishings, even a deck of playing cards.
Started with a Blank Apron
It's the personal touch that sets an average gift apart from a memento, believes the 24 year-old SoBo resident. Nidhi decided to design customised gifts when she fell short of gifting options herself. The owner of fashion boutique Accssetra put her knowledge in fashion design to turn duvets, blank aprons and wall clocks into gifting options.
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Personalised playing cards, bedsheet with a collage of photographs, a customised cushion cover |
"The idea was a hit with my friends and family. They convinced me to make one-off pieces for them. That was three years ago. Since then, there's been no looking back," she smiles.
It helps that all Nidhi needs from you is an idea. She can decorate photo frames, aprons, baby cribs, clocks, lamps, bedsheets, books, bags, cushion covers, even invitation cards with photographs of people or places visited. Corporates approach her to do the same with company logos.
You grin on an Ace of Spades
Her latest innovation involves designing a deck of playing cards. Photographs adorn one side of a card, and she replaces hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs with cartoon characters, mugshots of friends or instruments if you are a music buff. Cricket lovers can request her to use stumps and bats. For poker aficionados, she offers a custom-made table cloth and poker chips.
But her most popular product remains the personalised jigsaw puzzle; you put all the pieces together to reveal, what else? Your own face.
Nidhi is tight lipped about the process involved, and says all she uses is the digital printing technique.
So far, the whackiest products she has been asked to personalise are toilet seats and tissue paper rolls.
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"Most products are ordered because clients want to cherish the moment long after the occasion has faded from memory."
Price Range: Rs 900 to Rs 15,000 for regular products.u00a0 Rs 1,200 to Rs 1,800 for playing cards. Orders must be placed 10 days in advance.
Call: 9820644124
