Our work won two golds at Digipub World 2018, with Quint winning ‘Best website redesign’ and Re:Reader scooping up ‘Best innovation in publishing (english)’ See some images from the ceremony:
a talk on the convergence of technology and design at Pearl Academy
Itu joined Pearl Academy’s #ReinventDesign event organised by HP and IndieFolio Network He gave a lecture on the convergence of technology and design. He talked about building an ‘X-ray’— the habits and attitudes that help designers thrive with technology. Here are some images from the event
By My Own Hand
You see it everywhere, absolutely everywhere: rough-and-ready brush lettering or something like it. It’s proudly imperfect and knowingly naive. It’s bold and inkily raw; its voice can be raucous and assertive or tremulous and quivering. It’s on posters, packaging, banners and trademarks of food brands and political movements; on literary book covers, at conferences, and… Continue reading By My Own Hand
The vision-mission exercise
“We’re away on a mission-vision exercise,” said the client’s voice on the phone, speaking Hindi. ‘Vision’ sounded like what philologists call an echo word: a handy utterance meant to downplay the echoed word—mission, in this instance. Like we say ‘tax-vax’ or ‘college-shollege”. Mission-vission. That was two decades ago. These days, Deep Design often deals with… Continue reading The vision-mission exercise
The Business of Consulting
In the last decade, the more far-seeing set of mature, large businesses has been making hopeful approaches towards design. Their ardour comes from seeing design as a source of competitive advantage, and has been reported on widely. This column, too: we labelled Apple, Airbnb, Google and their increasing tribe as ‘digital darlings’. In their wake,… Continue reading The Business of Consulting
Numb and Number
We live in the age of data: we marvel at it, fret over it and depend on it. To an unprecedented degree, data, or observations that can be counted, is the boss of our factual universe. Own the data and you own the conversation. Further, sight trumps the senses, and we live in the era… Continue reading Numb and Number
A Class Apart
A drawing room sofa upholstered with bold graphics runs the risk of showing poor taste. But sofa cushions, by convention, are a license for graphic fun. My sofa set sports a smart black and white set (pictured) of four, with printed and crudely embroidered naive drawings. They picture: a bicycle; a hand pulled rickshaw; an… Continue reading A Class Apart
Big Food, Small Food
If this hasn’t happened to you, make it happen. Go to a shiny modern retail store near you, and stroll the juice shelves. Your eye is caught by a glass bottle with a metal cap, a mini-replica of the milk bottles of your youth. You take in the charmingly ‘un’-designed bottle. Austere titling identifies the… Continue reading Big Food, Small Food
Dear Chief Design OfficerA Class Apart
Dear Chief Design Officer You don’t know me, but as Chairman of this company, I created and gave you your job. Congratulations on being the first Indian CDO in India of a major company. It’s up to you now to make my gamble work. It wasn’t easy to convince the board. Yes, we all agree… Continue reading Dear Chief Design OfficerA Class Apart
Lisa on ‘UX: Marriage of art and science’ at the India Digital Summit 2018
Lisa Rath moderated a session on ‘UX: Marriage of Art and Science’ at the 12th edition of the India Digital Summit