Everyone loves a logo, or loves to hate one. Designing logos is the most easily understood example of the graphic designer’s work. Among the additions to visual culture since the 19th century, the logo ranks with television and cinema. Stand in Tokyo’s Ginza or New York’s Times Square and you will be overrun by them;… Continue reading Is it time to bury the logo?
Trending: The World In A Shade Card
It’s a modern, seasonal disease. The new year brings with it a thick flow of trend forecasts, cheery and sweeping, and we read them with the forgiving spirit that the holiday season demands. For Deep Design, it seems foolhardy to indulge, yet churlish to desist, so here’s a holiday smoothie on trends themselves. Some trend… Continue reading Trending: The World In A Shade Card
The Language of Identity
It was a film-maker friend on the phone. “I’m making a film,” he said, “on a new script that’s been developed for the Wancho language, spoken in Arunachal Pradesh. Right up your street.” Perhaps my friend was referring to my interest in typeface design? But my friend, aware of the distinction between the script (a… Continue reading The Language of Identity
Ira Chaudhuri website wins CII Design Excellence Award 2016
ICD wins the CII India Design Excellence Award in the Interaction Design category ‘website, infographics and online ads’ for a website on studio potter Ira Chaudhuri, an eminent artist in the field of studio pottery—a lesser-known art form that is distinct from commercial art. The platform explores and appreciate Ira’s work by giving a view… Continue reading Ira Chaudhuri website wins CII Design Excellence Award 2016
Hidden In Plain View: Physique
Brands place a premium on attention, firing images and words shaped into messages to inform and persuade. Indeed, we live amidst a war for our attention, an exquisitely perishable wisp that lives in the now. But like breath, attention is a quick burning fuel that enables the flow of communication but does not add to… Continue reading Hidden In Plain View: Physique
The Currency of Design
“I refuse to add to the chorus,” said DOPE, as the Designer Of Practically Everything was known to his colleagues, “dissing the Rs 2000 note’s design. Instead, let’s treat it as an occasion to ask explore what design means.” I looked sadly at the new Rs 2000 note my newspaper had sent for the interview.… Continue reading The Currency of Design
Indian Embassy Hacks: A Joke On Us?
Recently several Indian Embassy websites were hacked by Kapustkiy & Kasimierz L 2 Pentesters from Netherland, using the most basic security hack of SQL Injection. And it doesn’t end there: Yes, they are making fun of India and the worst part is that they are right. The Pentesters Pentesters are White / Grey hat hackers that… Continue reading Indian Embassy Hacks: A Joke On Us?
Currency design of the new 2000 rupee note: covered by Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera news group in conversation with Itu on the design of the new 2000 currency note, introduced by the GoI at the onset of its demonetisation drive.
Brand Is UX, Or Something Like That
The 20th century was the Age of advertising,“ said the Undisputed Strategic Panjandrum, known with awe as USP, “right up to the Great Shift or the digitisation of everything.
ICD curates the BIG-GAME Q&A
BIG-GAME design studio, Switzerland presented a retrospective selection of 10 products designed over the past 10 years. Each of the products designed by BIG-GAME was paired with one item found in India, selected by us. The 10 finds posed Indian counterpoints to BIG-GAME’s products that related to them, explained and contextualized them in unexpected ways.… Continue reading ICD curates the BIG-GAME Q&A