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Royal Existentials is a weekly webcomic series that uses Indian vintage art and imagery to tell stories of historical (and contemporary) angst. In #015, the queen makes an impassioned call to action.

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Name: Summerbreeze Co-Produced by Hitesh Dhutia and Krittika Sharma Recorded by Hitesh Dhutia and Jovian Soans Mixed by Jovian Soans This track is dedicated to my wonderful brother, Kapil. For nourishing me with his ardent love for music and encouraging me to find my voice. Lyrics: You are the summerbreeze that fell into tune, You are the silver in the moon. You are the wilderness in the grass. You are everywhere Everywhere you are In the mass. You are the summerbreeze that fell into tune, You are the silver in the moon. You are the stillness that brings the rain. You are everywhere Everywhere you are In the grain. You are in the ink of these words, You are the melody that I sing. These words that flow Belong to you from me. My love for you is like the sky, No specks of ivory just the blue. You have dissolved in my skin and drape. I’d go anywhere Anywhere you are In your shape.

#SoundCloud #krittika_sharma #Summerbreeze #Krittika Sharma #Hitesh Dhutia

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Royal Existentials is a weekly webcomic series that uses Indian vintage art and imagery to tell stories of historical (and contemporary) angst. In #013, the hidden dynamics of inequality in the act of bargaining are addressed.

(Updates every Friday.)

royalexistentials

Royal Existentials is a weekly webcomic series that uses Indian vintage art and imagery to tell stories of historical (and contemporary) angst. In #004, the sport of Elephant Polo brings up some deep-rooted emotions. (Updates every Friday.)

royalexistentials

Royal Existentials is a weekly webcomic series that uses Indian vintage art and imagery to tell stories of historical (and contemporary) angst. In #006, a woman flies.

Also, as a bonus, an accompanying GIF!

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Royal Existentials is a weekly webcomic series that uses Indian vintage art and imagery to tell stories of historical (and contemporary) angst. In #005, the contentious issue of backseat driving stirs up a very emotional debate. (Updates every Friday.)

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Royal Existentials is a weekly webcomic series that uses Indian vintage art and imagery to tell stories of historical (and contemporary) angst. In #007, the politics of support in the context of relationship and expectation is discussed.

(Updates every Friday.)

A visual-based learning system which teaches Chinese characters, phrases and simple stories. Our aim is to bring down the great wall of Chinese language.

I found this from my college days. The first time I was designing for a real time client. It was graphics for a range of watches called 'fast track Masala'. I like the poetry in designing a watch.. thinking about time and space and all that kind of lovely college day fluff.

'A' for apple.

the mind-map that started with the guttenberg press and took us through paradoxes that led us to where we are in the digital age, empathy, beyond good and evil, duality, paradox, evolution, shared language

#beyond good and evil #paradox #shared language #fruit of knowledge #duality #the apple narrative

Photography for design

Mischas Heller photography practice http://www.mischaphoto.com/seen.html#

Mischas photographs : high lights for me

Projects Inbetween – I thought capturing people who were just out of water was an especially interesting project. He say “Giddy with oxygen and creased by goggles, these swimmers are stuck somewhere between the weightlessness of water and the pull of gravity.” (erm.. The inbetween moments between mediums )

What was also quite fascinating as commissioned work was the UBS project of following artists around their day and work, photographing their protraits and life, and looking at life through their work and state of artistic being.

Showers shrines and stalls was interesting as well. I found one image to particularly tickle my humour. The image was a triangular signpost of old people (from the ground upwards made it look like an arrow pointing to the sky), background - serene lake. It was interesting to see humor in the midst of conceptual photography of what he describes as ‘the unlikely combination of hygiene, religion and modesty.’

The many rectangular photograph collage of multiple screens and corporate jumble was apt in terms of portraying the nature of information which comes in fragments, being pieced together to make a whole. It was perfectly apt as a commissioned work. The same technique applied for the frog billboard gave it a twist, since it distorted the real picture in terms of proportions, so one was curious enough to see the real image. Repetition / movement is dynamic.

His reply –‘I guess it was my gutt feeling’ .. is something every artist feels. This is an interesting space for me. And I m looking forward to seeing and exploring more of this space itself, in terms of what really happens for ‘intuition to build and establish itself.

#photography mischa Heller

British Posters

Modern British posters :

‘Its not about design history’ , its about value shifting from authentic pieces of art to art in the age of mechanical reproduction.

Old painting had a higher value than old posters in the time when reproduction was seen as non art, and was attributed to advertising and production. paul rennie say this ‘weird market’ was an interesting time, as steam engine collections (poster, book, toys) and old paintings were regarded as valueable. Where as posters were regarded as production technics.

He portrays the time (end of the 1920’s) as the beginning of the industrial age, and poster art was the beginning of defining and telling society ‘availability of surplus goods’. Sheet Music was the beginning of lithography, and was the beginning of compositions of music being able to disseminate and reach others beyond the composer himself. The notes of sheet music (of the piano / orchestra) defined not only the possibility of music receiving a defined language, which could be replaed, but also defined a certain structural language to conscious thought pertaining to that time.

Posters redefined the physical spaces of the town or city, bringing stories, visual, excitement as well as defining archieture itself eg. Bus stations which had poster sized spaces, to place them.) the economic politics of advertising and architecture are many, and had a huge inpact in the way cities were going to be defined.

Standardization: the agreement of what exactly constitutes industrial production. For example, Transportation (railways) brought about the standardization of time. Adam smith brought the idea of ‘division of labour’, a mechanical separation that removed a craftsman from his craft, and introduced mechanical specialisations. Henry ford, brought in the T ford, the first privatized luxury car and introduced ‘’fordism’. This standardizing system brought freuds psychoanalytic studies the need to standardize behaviour and saw the beginnings of the ‘assylum’ / behaviour homes’ as the administration of behaviour.

Design was a blind spot, as it was behind all culture defining changes.

#paul rennie #posters #standardization #industrialization #walter benjamin's Art in the age of mechanical reproduction

Amartya Sen & Nicholas Stern with Rajeev Sethi at the Alchemy Festival last year at the south Bank Centre.

Mera Joota hai Japani Yeh Patloon Inglistani Sar pe lal topi Rusi Phir bhi dil hai Hindustani - Globalization in India, whats the deal? (Wait for this post)

Power and narrative in day-to-day consuming

http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4335/ - a paper by Kevin Taft.

how does power operate in day-today consuming in a consumer society?

Taft's research indicates that Foucauldian operants of power are used extensively to support consuming, and that; in addition, many narrative structures are also employed as operants of power, including charms and stories. These operants of power are aligned with one another to form coherent patterns through the effects of metanarratives. I argue that, despite claims by Lyotard (1984) and others, modern consumer societies are highly narrative, and have defining metanarratives. In addition, environmentally-based opposition to the dominant metanarrative of consuming has a metanarrative of its own, but is distinctly lacking in operants of power.

Public sanitation efforts in my village heavily depends on festivals, elections and special occasions.

#kuppathotti superstars

Carrie Bishop, FuturGov, Portcullis House

Carrie Bishop, in todays talk at the Portcullis House in the house of commons, spoke extensively about social design. Some interesting areas of the talk were of scaling solutions to social problems. Barry sheerman who responded from the bureaucracy called for 'recipe thinking' rather than blue print thinking'. Since people in social settings are context based, a recipe is more fitting to an engineered method of solving problems.

While Risk Averse' bureaucrats tend to stick to familiar and less risky change, which in their mind is more than just a blame aversion, designers aught to be more empathetic to social problems when solving problems rather than bringing out a range of services that they seem fit for a social context.

The world wide web has begun to shatter power structures, and hence calls for newer ways to use the web to change public services.

"How do we collaborate with people who have already died and others who are yet to be born" .. was an alarming statement that got me mind whirling.

Difficult IT and bad tools are sure methods to increase aversion for change as these become a risk in lens of its usability.

Camps like the benefits camp run by futuregov have begun to look at 'appreciative inquiry' and challenges as a method to interactivism, may interactionism be a new area to discover new areas in public service.

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