at his best

“ If I do anything, it's that I take away.... I don't add... I don't embellish. The thing that you want to do is take a sophisticated idea and reduce it to the simplest possible terms.... so that it's accessible to everyone. Generally the opposite happens, people take a stand-alone idea and tie into knots. Very few people understand the elegance of Simplicity. I hate clutter.... or motion confused with accomplishment.

Gordon Willis, cinematographer of many great films, answering questions on one of his best, Manhattan.

design

“ Design, which used to be almost unknown as a profession, has become a major source of pollution. Encouraged by glossy lifestyle magazines and marketing departments, it’s become a competition to make things as noticeable as possible by means of colour, shape and surprise. Its historic and idealistic purpose, to serve industry and the happy consuming masses at the same time, of conceiving things easier to make and better to live with, seems to have been side-tracked. The virus has already infected the everyday environment. The need for businesses to attract attention provides the perfect carrier for the disease.

Design makes things seem special, and who wants normal if they can have special? And that’s the problem.
What has grown naturally and unselfconsciously over the years cannot easily be replaced. Not that old things shouldn’t be replaced or that new things are bad, just that things that are designed to attract attention are usually unsatisfactory. There are better ways to design than putting a big effort into making something look special. Special is generally less useful than normal, and less rewarding in the long term. Special things demand attention for the wrong reasons, interrupting potentially good atmosphere with an awkward presence. Preserve Normal, resist Special!

BUBBLE HELL LOGOS

http://blog.eachday.com/2007/8/1/bubble-logo-insanity

visualisation

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/

this link helps us understand the different data visualisation disgramd and techniques to simplify information...amazing link for all designers and research people

typography or topography

a toy of typography consisting of fragments of separate letters that can be put together to either English or Japanese letters & characters. the unique characteristic about Toypography is that Japanese expressions can be transformed into English expressions of the same meaning.

data visualisation

http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html#

this is link helps us understand all the data visualisation methods in a more systematic manner.

majhi wadi

this is a place where i was born and brought up. its called a wadi in marathi and a society in english.....but we prefer writting it as brahmin wadi, traditional ways of belonging to a place where caste and class did matter. as the name suggest its still a place where only maharashtrians live...though we do have daughter-in-laws of many who are from other caste. this place is so full of life when its five in the evening or even a festival like ganapati...its amazing to see 109 families living and we as kids knew all of them. beat part was the fun and pampering by all the grannys of this wadi. we knew which house had the best barfi and which aunty could make the best poha. we as kids had never seen any of these houses locked unless the family is going out of town. in the evening times all grandmothers sit out and chat and have bhajan sessions all singing while grandchildren are playing to glory...its not just games that we have played here but also in the mud. we dont have a concrete ground its just mud....and imagine the puddles and water in the rains...but u bet its the best time to be on such a ground. football and chor police were patent over a weekend...when everybody gets atleast 4 hours to play. we never found the need to go out and join any activity as kids...we all learnt them here. dance classes, utions, dabba service, paying guest accomodations, everything is taken care of. though this place is now famous for paying uest accomodation for UDCT and VJTI students but many more have joined the gangs. this place has never had any special balcony to anyone its one stretch of land where one can learn how to cycle whithout falling or not been able to go out. we as kids used to hare our test papers with eachother in the colony....and yes we were a gang of us who at times have also studied together. its a bonding that i have never experienced anywhere...staying in a hostel is different and though i have stayed in many other places but this place is one of its kind. if your parents are away thats all u need, all the neighbouring auties and grannys will see to it that u r juston time for everything...even ur meals are taken care of. its amazing how we who are residents here know everyone from everyones family...auties, uncles, first cousions, etc.... but the best part is if you win any award and anyone in the colony knows it ...u bet the world is small everyone knows it even before you have reached home. its a fun loving and an amazing place to be in this part of the world. i pray that this bonding amongst all of us grows and never fades away.