May 3, 2013
The eternally creative and imaginative Michael Wolff decided to open himself up to his readers in the 11th edition of the Kyoorius Magazine by using the indisputably powerful medium of music in his letter. The two great art forms particularly close to design are cooking and music; both visceral and all about creating, said Wolff [...]
April 24, 2013
Kyoorius Magazine did an interview with Gita Wolf, founder, Tara Books for our 12th issue (July-September 2012). Launched in 1994, Tara Books is an independent publishing house that has launched a number of spectacular picture books for children and adults. Wolf’s interview covered evolution of Tara Books, the loss of visual literacy in Indian culture [...]
April 12, 2013
It’s a multi-screen world. Consumers now rely on smartphones, tablets and laptops for just about everything. Onscreen time grows as new media proliferates. Mobile use is increasing rapidly, and is expected to nearly double to 165 million users by March 2015, according to a recent survey. Though few of us will have failed to notice [...]
March 29, 2013
Earlier this year, we invited designers to send in a picture along with a story/snippet about their memorable travelling experience for ‘Travelogue’, a special supplement that will be available with the 15th issue of Kyoorius Magazine. ‘Travelogue’ is sponsored by ‘Papers by Kyoorius’. We received over a hundred entries from designers all around the world. [...]
March 20, 2013
Enter URL > Click > Browse > Click > Pay > Ding! And that’s how it’s done. With the influx of local online stores in India, shopping has become that easy and the only pre-requisites required are an internet connection and a credit/debit card. Instead of setting aside a day to shop coupled with prepping [...]
June 26, 2012
Adobe’s headquarters in India isn’t typically where one might expect to find the Kyoorius team looking studiously at the behind-the- scene working of the software major. A recent visit to the company’s Bangalore office made for a fascinating look into the trials, errors and thinking that go into the constant tweaking and up gradation of [...]
June 22, 2012
Bruce Nussbaum talked about creative quotient in his article titled — Design Thinking Is A Failed Experiment. So What’s Next? He says “In my experience, when you say the word ‘design’ to people across a table, they tend to smile politely and think “fashion.” Say ‘design thinking,’ and they stop smiling and tend to lean [...]
Read between the lines During my formative advertising years I had the pleasure of reading two classics — ‘Confessions of an Advertising Man’ by the genius David Ogilvy and the ‘Hidden Persuaders’ by the celebrated Vance Packard. While both propounded contrasting views on the influence of advertising, they both agreed on one thing — advertising [...]
June 20, 2012
‘Set your mind free to think beyond boundaries and then channelize that free thought into solving business challenges’ — that, in essence, is Design Orb’s philosophy at work. The agency was started in 2009 as a one-woman show, with Poornima Burte at its helm. After graduating from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, Burte [...]
One tall macchiato please. Who would’ve thought? Starbucks’ imminent arrival is a milestone in the story of economic liberalisation in India — a bit like when MTV burst in to our worlds in the early 90s. Equally, it’s a giant step for Starbucks, a brand that has emerged as one of the most culture defining [...]
