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[29 Jul 2010 | 7 Comments | 283 views]
Indian Rupee Symbol – Font Download

Indian Rupee Symbol – for download in Arial and Times New Roman

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[12 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 39 views]

Architecture
Design your own house now! – http://dragonfly.autodesk.com/designer
Art and the Eternal Why?
The Invisible man – http://v1kram.posterous.com/liu-bolinthe-invisible-man
Design I like
This guy finds nice minimalistic posters/art work n puts them up – http://gentlepurespace.com/blog/
Awesome awesome logos – http://creativefan.com/the-20-best-logos-from-2009/
Chotu Kids Story BOoks
Awww – this is what i want to do – www.stickmans.net/saddestbear/default.html

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[6 Nov 2009 | One Comment | 142 views]

All tapo-ed information, collected here.
From here: http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000029.php

Useful. As practitioners, we can’t be content to paint within the lines drawn by managers. We must have the courage and creativity to ask whether our products and systems are useful, and to apply our deep knowledge of craft and medium to define innovative solutions that are more useful.
Usable. Ease of use remains vital, and yet the interface-centered methods and perspectives of human-computer interaction do not address all dimensions of web design. In short, usability is necessary but not sufficient.
Desirable. Our quest for efficiency …

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[23 Jul 2009 | No Comment | 163 views]

Trying to get a systematic order to designing anything.

Audience – Who the target audience is everything.
Colours – the psychology, the socio-cultural associations, the natural harmony, the emotional response
Imagery – quality, relevance, originality
Fonts – max 3, depends on the message/tone (serious/fun/blah), can be used imaginatively (add the funk)
Layout – focal point, organized, easy to understand, usable
Take a step back – if it feels right, its right
Take further step back – ask someone else.

Communicate.
Loud and Clear.
I like.

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[12 Apr 2009 | 6 Comments | 761 views]
Missed Calls in India? Find out who now!

Ever got a missed call and wondered and wondered who it could possibly be from? Well, know you can know! Well, not exactly. Through the free missed call lookup service you can now see the location and the operator of any mobile phone in India.
I came up with the idea when a ‘shady’ friend of mine sent me border-line ‘shady’ messages when she got a new number.  The data available is not 100% up-to-date and is mostly restricted to GSM phones. Will try to update as and when.
Post script: Since …

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[3 Apr 2009 | 2 Comments | 496 views]
New Free WordPress Theme

Simply Pink is a simple, minimalistic Wordpress theme intended to look more like a small personal website than a blog.

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[25 Mar 2009 | No Comment | 192 views]

Testing a few IP mapping services. Cluster maps below. Not entirely open source.

DIY Maps. This seems to be the coolest but hardest to configure. I’m trying to configure it here. Not happening so far. Sigh. My dream.

IPCCP is also a cool wordpress plugin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ipccp/. Testing right now.

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[10 Feb 2009 | No Comment | 329 views]
DU Beat

Delhi University’s Independent Student Newspaper
The parent or the child? I’ll never know

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[9 Feb 2009 | 2 Comments | 360 views]
Art of Smita

Smita Srivastava, also known as Maaaaaaaaaaa, is an awesome artist. Check out her work here!

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[8 Feb 2009 | One Comment | 392 views]
Typeeee

Death by Type! by some guy on deviant art. My new obsession.