Archive for Grunge

Website Holding Page

Designed the splash page or holding page for a friend’s personal website.

morpheus Website Holding Page asidebrands Brand naming & Logo design by Naina

It needed improvement – more subtle – more dreamy.

morpheus02 Website Holding Page asidebrands Brand naming & Logo design by Naina

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Happy Diwali!

UPDATE : October 2010
New Diwali wallpaper for 2010 here.

UPDATE : September 2009
New Diwali wallpaper for 2009 here.

UPDATE : September 2008
A new wallpaper has been designed and made available for download here.
Diwali 2009 Wallpaper

It’s Diwali season, 2006 and a lot of people are reaching the aside blog after searching for “Diwali” on Google. This has prompted me to release yet another Diwali Wallpaper [ in addition to the one released in 2005 ].

This is what it looks like:

diwali06 thumb00 Happy Diwali! asidebrands Brand naming & Logo design by Naina

Description
The desktop wallpaper has an illustration of Goddess Lakshmi [ or Laxmi ]. She represents wealth, well-being and prosperity and business owners welcome her on the festival of Diwali and pray to her so that she blesses them with wealth and prosperity. This Diwali Wallpaper has been created to give it an old, worn-out paper look to signify the tradition of celebrating Diwali that is being followed from the time of the Ramayana.

The colors used are the colors of turmeric and saffron, which are oft-used “puja” [ meaning "prayer" ]-related materials.

Download using the following links depending on what size you need [ right click the link and select save-as ]:

If your company needs custom wallpapers to send out to clients this Diwali, get in touch! Wishing all clients and readers a very happy and prosperous Diwali!

And here’s another one – a more colorful version.

diwali06 thumb02 Happy Diwali! asidebrands Brand naming & Logo design by Naina

And here are the download links:

And here’s another one [ a third Diwali wallpaper for Diwali 2006 ].

Diwali0603 thumb Happy Diwali! asidebrands Brand naming & Logo design by Naina

And here are the download links:

And here’s another one [ a fourth Diwali wallpaper for Diwali 2006 ].

diwali0604 thumb Happy Diwali! asidebrands Brand naming & Logo design by Naina

And here are the download links:

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grunge website showcase

[ via Visting Hours. via WebCreme ]

Since I’d mentioned Grunge a couple of days back, this was a great viewing experience.

Links to the websites :

  • [ loads Flash - takes time ] : doubleOC OR Opposite of Corporate : I find their logo animation VERY distracting.
  • ThickRecords – nice illustration.
  • Why do I get a feeling that Grunge is not a great idea for website? [ they look too cluttered ].

  • Daniele Cascone : decent grunge – does not mix with the website content – better.
  • Miron Design : splash page – not such a good idea – with increasingly shorter attention spans – you should hit the visitor with a “sale” immediately – unless you’re creating a gallery / showcase – and it has pre-loading flash – very slow.

There were more links [ you can see them all here ] – I just didn’t have the heart to dis anymore of them.

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attempt at Grunge

Two of my very good friends are grunge art fans and I’ve been hearing off and on that I don’t do any grunge at all. So here, sleep on it!

grungeOne attempt at Grunge asidebrands Brand naming & Logo design by Naina

That reminds me, I need to increase the content-width of this blog.
So what do you think? [ About the composition above. ] Photography and design by moi.

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