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 [...]
June 12, 2012
By Bindu Nair Maitra Challenges as a design entrepreneur: The challenges faced by entrepreneurs in setting up a business in India could make for a voluminous book.To understand how designers make that leap of faith deserves even more respect in a country that, as one very senior designer put it, not even recognize graphic design [...]
Dutch designer Tjeerd Veenhoven has always enjoyed experimenting with materials and production techniques. It is these experiments that have led to some interesting discoveries about texture and materials, a process that is central to his work as a designer. “In a playful, freestyle way these experiments turn in to products, showing that form and beauty [...]
“We have no late nights because we believe that in order to be creative, one needs to gain experiences other than work,”say Amit and Misha, the duo behind design agency Sky Design. The firm was formally set up in November 2006 by Amit Gudibanda and Misha Gurnanee Gudibanda, both graduates of the National Institute of [...]
Taaneya Balaji’s illustrations revolve around characters or faces that she says she imagines in her head. She draws out what she wants to portray and then works on it digitally almost immediately. “My main focus is to bring out the theme of the illustration as effectively as possible,without being too specific or obvious. The point [...]
Saurabh Kumar says he has been drawing ever since he can remember. He remembers a lot of board games and comic books around him as a child. When he has a brief in front of him, Saurabh says he can’t get himself moving until he’s sure he’s got ‘the’ idea. “It mostly arrives from a [...]
Rebecca Chew is an illustrator based in Malaysia, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from Nottingham Trent University. Talking about how she begins a commissioned piece, she says, “When it is an editorial piece, I would start by reading the article. I try to get the gist, the tone and the essential [...]
