About Us

A image of Yash Panchal, Founder & CEO of theCraftiqs.

Yash Panchal

Founder & CEO

I deeply love and appreciate my team for everything they do!

theCraftiqs is an automotive and product design studio working from Ahmedabad, India. We exist at the point where imagination has to answer to physics: where a line drawn in a moment of instinct has to survive the discipline of engineering, materials, and manufacturing, and still feel like the moment it was born from. Every object we make starts the same way, as a feeling before it is anything else, a shape the mind reaches for before the hand can explain why. Our work is spent protecting that first instinct all the way to the finished piece.

Most design dies quietly in the space between people who don't understand each other's intentions. A sketch passes to an engineer, the engineer passes it to a machinist, and somewhere in that relay, the original idea grows thinner with every handoff. We built theCraftiqs to close that gap entirely. One team carries a project from its first pencil line through concept development, 3D visualization, Class-A surfacing, prototyping, and manufacturing, without ever letting the thread break. Class-A surfacing is where this shows most plainly: it is the discipline of shaping a surface until it catches and bends light with total precision, judged to the nearest tenth of a millimeter, the same standard our founder trained under while developing the Pagani Alisea in Turin. We brought that standard home and built our own studio around it, because a beautiful idea deserves a body that does it justice.

We take on a limited number of projects each year because attention is the one resource that cannot be stretched without breaking. We would rather turn work away than let our name sit on something we did not give everything to. This same conviction leads us to create work of our own, objects born entirely from our own vision, held to the exact standards we bring to every client project. We do not ask people to trust our word. We ask them to look at the object itself: to hold it, to turn it in the light, and to feel whether it was made with care. That is the only proof we have ever wanted to offer, and the only one worth having.

We take on a limited number of projects each year because attention is the one resource that cannot be stretched without breaking. We would rather turn work away than let our name sit on something we did not give everything to. This same conviction leads us to create work of our own, objects born entirely from our own vision, held to the exact standards we bring to every client project. We do not ask people to trust our word. We ask them to look at the object itself: to hold it, to turn it in the light, and to feel whether it was made with care. That is the only proof we have ever wanted to offer, and the only one worth having.

History

Our history is full of interesting stages and events.

2026

Development of upcoming cinematic real-time automotive configurator with custom UI, high-fidelity materials, and immersive environments.

2025

theCraftiqs was founded to connect creative design thinking with engineering and manufacturing capabilities.

Expansion into in-house prototyping and manufacturing, including CNC machining, 3D printing, and small-batch production.

Design and manufacturing of the Pagani Alisea 1:12 aluminum sculpture, combining digital modeling, 5-axis machining, and hand finishing.

2026

Development of upcoming cinematic real-time automotive configurator with custom UI, high-fidelity materials, and immersive environments.

2025

theCraftiqs was founded to connect creative design thinking with engineering and manufacturing capabilities.

Expansion into in-house prototyping and manufacturing, including CNC machining, 3D printing, and small-batch production.

Design and manufacturing of the Pagani Alisea 1:12 aluminum sculpture, combining digital modeling, 5-axis machining, and hand finishing.

2026

Development of upcoming cinematic real-time automotive configurator with custom UI, high-fidelity materials, and immersive environments.

2025

theCraftiqs was founded to connect creative design thinking with engineering and manufacturing capabilities.

Expansion into in-house prototyping and manufacturing, including CNC machining, 3D printing, and small-batch production.

Design and manufacturing of the Pagani Alisea 1:12 aluminum sculpture, combining digital modeling, 5-axis machining, and hand finishing.

We shape ideas into forms that feel right, function well, and last.

Kishan Panchal

Manufacturing Lead

Kishan Panchal

Manufacturing Lead

Kishan Panchal

Manufacturing Lead

Jaydeep Ahir

Real-Time Developer

Jaydeep Ahir

Real-Time Developer

Anuj Mistry

Interior Designer

Anuj Mistry

Interior Designer

Anuj Mistry

Interior Designer

Yash Panchal

Founder & CEO

Design is clarity, proportion, and the emotion it leaves behind.

Yash Panchal

Founder & CEO

Design is clarity, proportion, and the emotion it leaves behind.

Yash Panchal

Founder & CEO

Design is clarity, proportion, and the emotion it leaves behind.

Pinal Davda

Web & Graphic Designer

Pinal Davda

Web & Graphic Designer

Pinal Davda

Web & Graphic Designer

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Awards

Design Thesis Collaboration

2024

Graduation project developed in collaboration with Pagani Automobili, imagining the evolution of the Zonda, 25 years after the launch of the model that redefined the standards towards new levels of style and performance.

Transportation Design Recognition

2024

Selected academic work during automotive design studies in Italy.

International Magazine Feature

2023

Primary concept published on the cover of Industrial Vehicle Technology International – Off-Highway Annual.

Design Thesis Collaboration
2024

Graduation project developed in collaboration with Pagani Automobili, imagining the evolution of the Zonda, 25 years after the launch of the model that redefined the standards towards new levels of style and performance.

Transportation Design Recognition
2024

Selected academic work during automotive design studies in Italy.

International Magazine Feature
2023

Primary concept published on the cover of Industrial Vehicle Technology International – Off-Highway Annual.

Design Thesis Collaboration
2024

Graduation project developed in collaboration with Pagani Automobili, imagining the evolution of the Zonda, 25 years after the launch of the model that redefined the standards towards new levels of style and performance.

Transportation Design Recognition
2024

Selected academic work during automotive design studies in Italy.

International Magazine Feature
2023

Primary concept published on the cover of Industrial Vehicle Technology International – Off-Highway Annual.

Every object begins as a thought. Let’s give yours a form.