Archive for November, 2006
November 30, 2006 at 10:23 am · Filed under Icons & Web Design, Personal, Redhu
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November 30, 2006 at 10:00 am · Filed under Download, Icons & Web Design, Personal, Projects, Redhu
UPDATE : Christmas Wallpaper for 2008
Christmas Wallpaper for 2009
I did the Diwali wallpaper in 2005 and then followed-up with Diwali wallpapers for 2006.
Update: There’s a Christmas wallpaper for 2007 as well here.
Now it’s the turn of Christmas Wallpapers. I’m starting out with a light, white, snowflake-themed wallpaper. I wanted to keep it clean so that your desktop gives you a feeling of happy/free/cheerful spirit. It also gives you enough white-space to fill up your desktop!
Here are the three download links:
1. 2000 x 1500
2. 1024 x 768
3. 800 x 600
Here is another Christmas wallpaper – more along the lines of what people expect from a Christmas wallpaper 
The Diwali wallpapers got my website more hits from people looking for them because I don’t think there are many Diwali wallpapers out there – Christmas seems to be way more popular on the web!
Here are the three download links:
1. 2000 x 1500
2. 1024 x 768
3. 800 x 600
And another Christmas Wallpaper [ I did this illustration for the 2nd Wacom Holiday season Contest 2006 ] and have re-sized the same for Desktop wallpapers.
Here are the three download links:
1. 2000 x 1500
2. 1024 x 768
3. 800 x 600
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November 21, 2006 at 2:10 am · Filed under Case Study, EUROPE, Logo & Corporate Identity, Projects, Redhu
I recently completed a project for Srijith Nair, for the Trishul research project at the Department of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands. A Trishul is a trident held by by one of the Indian Gods – Shiva.
After the Creative brief was received, the client also gave two of his ideas on the design, which are as follows [ the client had a pretty good idea about what they wanted ]:
I reverted with the following drawings to kick-start the project:
Client feedback was that they wanted something more “illustrative” – a more gothic style with more lines and curves. I followed this up with two drawings to determine the kind of look they wanted. Since the project is related to technology, I suggested that they keep the logo simple and clean – unlike the drawings below!
Fortunately, the client wanted some more iterations to a couple of designs that they had liked from the previous set of images. The semi-finished drawings that were then sent to the client are as follows [ including some color variations ]:
Srijith then asked for something more “hand-drawn” in the logo that he liked and following are the variations I sent him:
The final logo that was selected is shown below:
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November 18, 2006 at 10:49 am · Filed under Article, Blogging, Redhu
I’ve been a huge proponent of using blogs for communicating with clients, fellow-professionals and the public in general. In India, the uptake of blogs has been phenomenal but we’re still using blogs more as personal diaries than tools to communicate with our customers and with the market.
A French company recently integrated a blog into their main website. The company itself manufactures crystal-ware but the blog is created in a story-telling fashion. The blog is presented to be written by a wedding-planner. No doubt wedding-planners have to plan the glass-ware and crystal at weddings and it’s a perfect way to market the company’s products using the technique of storytelling. The blog is written more in the style of “episodes”.
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