Archive for 'Designer Life'

Here is the secret to creativity… Reloaded

‘Good artists copy, great artists steal’

— Pablo Picasso (Later made popular by Steve Jobs)

These are some of the amazing sites that inspire you and shatter your (design) believes. This post features my favorite 23 sites under 6 categories. Subscription links are provided at the end of each section.

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1. Ads Of The World


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Here is the secret to creativity…

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
– Albert Einstein

I realized recently that I am a regular visitor of some websites that offer great design insights in branding, identity design, product design, graphic design… These seventeen websites serve as my source of inspiration. I am sharing the following links with you and I hope that you will benefit from them.

(a). “Anything under the sun…”

The following four websites share unique miscellaneous designs: Product Design, Graphic Design, Package Design…

1. Notcot.com
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"Tell me, what was your first…

…design?
A couple of days ago, I happen to read a blog post by Gavin Elliott: “Designers, what was your first piece of work?.” 24 designers speak about their first designs. Since I am not a celebrity, Gavin didn’t take the trouble of contacting me.

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So today morning, I spent some hours digging through my back-up data in CDs and got some old stuff. For those who are interested, here is my story.


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Internship at Rediffusion | Y&R, Bangalore

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Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Are you a student joining IISc Bangalore in August, 2009?
A few tips that may help you in the first couple of days are compiled here, just click to download (PDF, 82KB). These are based on the last year’s (2008) procedures. Deviations may happen. I strongly recommend this blog — IISc Life — to know more about the campus and happenings there.

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Twitter Prank – April Fool

Tweets in invisible ink!

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It was an instantaneous decision. I have done something similar in a webpage a couple of years back. But it didn’t see the light of the day.
Today morning, I realised that the date is 01-Apr-2009: April Fool’s day. I suddenly remembered my old prank and decided to re-do it in Twitter.


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Tutorial – Portfolio Design

“How can I make a good portfolio?”
A designer cannot survive without a portfolio. I decided to do an exploration in internet to find an answer to the above question. After several days of burning the midnight oil, I found many resources in web.
I compiled them neatly and made a presentation file.

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“Everything that has a beginning… needs a start!”

Right hand bottom corner of my screen shows 6:08AM IST, Wednesday, May 21, 2008. This is an auspicious time to start the first blog in my life. To be frank, a crude form of my blog has been a regular in my College Yahoo Groups since 2001. After getting so much ‘little’ attention and seldom replies or comments from my friends, the crude blog met with a silent death.

I want to win an Oscar some day. As on today, the Academy does not give away Oscars in Electronics Engineering. So, after serious and lazy thoughts, I have decided to become a designer. What designer, even I don’t know, only time can tell.

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