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Thank You!
Dear Readers, Friends and Supporters, We’d like to let you know that we’re all taking a little holiday from blogging here on Little Design Book. Until we’re back, the website will continue to be an online archive. We’ll keep checking in every now and then, so please feel free to continue interacting with us through ...
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Monday Matchbox 14.11.11
In 1954 the United Nations General Assembly established November 20th as Universal Children’s Day to create awareness about and to generate proactive action for the welfare of children across the world. The same date marked the UN’s adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959 and the Convention of the Rights ...
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Monday Matchbox 10.10.11
A few days ago, the Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 was awarded jointly to three women- Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and journalist and human rights activist Tawakkul Karman -“for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work”. It angers ...
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KDY11: What’s Next?
Why are Indian designers afraid of talking about design? Are they afraid that no one will listen to them? Do they think they’re not as ‘cool’ as their foreign counterparts? Are they ashamed of their work? Or are they just plain lazy? At the recently concluded Kyoorius Designyatra 2011, only ONE presentation in 13 ...
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Kyoorius Design Yatra 2011
This year’s Design Yatra in Goa was a smaller, more intimate event than usual with an interesting mix of speakers from across the globe. Spread over two days, delegates were treated to some fantastic work; our sketchbooks are filled with notes and doodles that we will follow up on in the coming weeks. The theme ...
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The Nation As Brand
Ruchita and I are back from a hectic trip to India and the Kyoorius Design Yatra of which we will write about in our next post. Going back a few years to Design Yatra in 2007, I heard Wally Olins speak about branding and in particular about a project for Portugal. Wally is the chairman ...
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Paris-Delhi-Bombay
“What is India today?” is the question that the Centre Pompidou seeks to answer with its blockbuster summer exhibition titled Paris-Delhi-Bombay. An ambitious question, if there was one, this show brings together nearly 50 artists from India and France to address the idea of India and what it entails. Physically and logically clustered into six ...
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A Little Window to History
BlueAnt Digital Intelligence and KHOJ International Artist Association recently came together to create a project called 1 Square Augmented Mile (1SAM) in Khirkee, Delhi. A cross between a site-specific art treasure trove, virtual reality and community based social network, 1SAM caught our attention for the way in which it melded art and technology, making augmented ...
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A Heroic Change?
Hero and Honda parted ways in early 2011 after a 25 year JV; with the Munjal family buying Honda out. As part of the agreement the Hero Group was allowed to continue using the ‘Hero Honda’ brand and mark for another 3 years but clearly the Munjal led Hero Group has wasted no time. Enter Hero ...