The tabby is neat and I got used to it within no time. I also did, what they call a speed paint which is basically a quick rendering of thoughts in Corel Painter. You can see it in this thread. It’s entitled - Village Tree. I am hoping to do a lot more fine art with my tabby now :-)
5 comments July 17th, 2005
This is my definition for Design - It is a process & not the end in itself. The designer is a creative problem solver no matter which art institute he passed out from, he has a role to play in the everyday functioning of the organization. Unfortunately for some reputed institutes the designer is just another academic slave who should be subjected to that cruel system & judged by that single ingredient called ‘Marks’.
Design is not a regular stream of education and not all people are gifted to think creatively on paper or the computer. Thats why the lucky ones are called Designers. Some of the more immortal beings like me, get a chance in their lifetime to go to a Art school and study designing from the market perspective. This is one academic stream which is quite different from the rest in everything. No other stream uses colour as a medium of expression. No other stream gives more emphasis to pencils & paper. Here the student is taught to think creatively rather than calculate theorems & formulae. The mark system sounds very vague for it to be implemented here but it must be there because the government felt it can’t be seen as treating Design as an exceptional case. Come to think of it, Design has no limits & it has no boundaries. The more you think and work on your ideas the better it gets everytime. Sometimes ideas come so fast, you might even get results very soon. There are no set limits or rules to what can be done in designing. But what is loved by one and all might turn out to be bad for some. Therefore in my college exams, when I jumped up and down over a great idea for a product ad (according to me), the professors felt my fonts weren’t good or the finishing was not to their level and I got less ‘marks’. The designer has always faced this discrimination in every walk of his life - from being a student to being a professional.
Continue Reading 23 comments July 14th, 2005
London won the bid for hosting the Olympics & the Paralympic summer games in 2012. This is surely a moment of jubiliation for Sebastian Coe and the bidding team. On the other hand it was quite exciting to watch the bidding countries’ logos :-) I have always been fascinated by the colour and the theme related to the respective city. And just in case you are wondering about the headline, London will be hosting the games for a second time after 1948.
So this time at the 117th IOC Session at Singapore there were 5 teams (or rather cities) competing for the coveted invitation to host the Olympics in 2012. From all the official websites of the bidding team, New York’s was the most coolest. I think it’s got that vibrant feel to it - much the same way the city projects itself. If you see the ads on the website (you need either a QuickTIme or a Windows Media Player) you’d realise how much effort they have put in to win the bid. The navigation is simple and the design is uncluttered. And oh and did I mention that it’s made in Flash ? :)
Have a look at the Official Bidder’s websites in the order that I liked ;-)
New York - London - Moscow - Madrid - Paris
July 7th, 2005
After searching high and low, I finally got some answers. Acrobat Reader (6 & 7) comes with an option of automatically parsing text as URLs (see Edit › Preferences › General). In the case of the email, it was discovered that it took the ‘.’ (in the corporate’.’ engineering@tcs.com) as a full stop (and therefore an end to the sentence) and parsed the later half of it as an email :) This was a pleasant revelation for me. I am relieved of a great worry.
June 29th, 2005
