Archive for June, 2007

First Successful Commercial Graphic Designer

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Before Paul Rand, Saul Bass, Chip Kidd, Milton Glaser and other notable modern graphic designers there was a French artist Jules Chéret, often deservingly called the “father of the modern poster”. His successful venture into commercial art has inspired many artists of XIX century, including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Théophile Steinlen, Leonetto Cappiello and Alfons […]

Musings on Blogging

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

It’s been seven hours and three days since I’ve written a post for my blog. Not because I was lazy, or terribly busy, or didn’t have anything to write about. On the contrary, I’ve been working on three different posts, and they’re consuming quite a lot of my time - putting all the content pieces […]

Magic Spell

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Sometimes I get carried away while surfing the Web. There’s something very hypnotic in the way that Web works - one click might take you to a whole new world, another click - and you discovered a hidden treasure that gets you excited like a kid looking at the sun through that magical colourful glass.
That’s […]

What Can Be Done In 15 Minutes?

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Having so many things to take care of it’s not surprising that many of us are yearning for more hours in a day. I often wish if I only had 48 or at least 36 hours in a day, my life would’ve been so much easier and organized. But since this will forever remain in […]

8 Bits You Now Know About Me

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

I’ve been tagged by Paul from Reflections to spill out 8 beans by writing about 8 things that you don’t know about me. This meme was going around blogiverse for quite a long time and If I’m not mistaken, it used to ask for 5 Things. I wonder who switched it to my blog’s favourite […]

Mixing Typefaces Cheat Sheet

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Whenever we’re presented with thousands of choices it’s always difficult to make up our mind. In design perhaps the most challenging decisions we constantly face are the ones about selecting the right colour and typeface combinations for our projects.
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When Is It Wrong To Call A Typeface Font

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Blame it on Ronald and his Peeve Week 2 for putting me in exasperating mode. I already shared my peeves on Culture and Misconceptions on his blog and will be writing more peeves on Internet and Stereotypes. Here though I’d like to talk about the differences between certain terms that often are being inadvertently […]

Feeling Adventurous

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

I can’t say I believe in horoscopes, but I do occasionally find them fascinating. My most favourite animal is a tiger. I’m not really sure if I’m spellbound by it because I was born in the Year of Tiger and somehow feel connected to it, or is it simply because with its gorgeous fur, intricate […]