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Image of the Week
There isn’t an image of the week this week. For 10 days now we’ve been visually assaulted by pictures coming in from Japan, Libya and Bahrain: sites of disaster, violence and conflict. Everyone around me has been glued to screens and newspapers hoping to “catch the latest news as it unfolds” and it’s got to ...
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A World of Design Marks
India now has its own way of recognising and rewarding good design — our just-released and hotly debated I-mark. There seem to be two polarising issues at hand here. One is the lack of clarity around what the criteria or standards of this mark will be. The second is the design of the mark itself, ...
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The Sir Misha Black Medal 2011
Last evening I had the pleasure of attending the ceremony of the 100th centenary Sir Misha Black Medal for Excellence in Design Education which was awarded to my old teacher Prof. Kumar H. Vyas. This award – which is possibly the only award for design education awarded anywhere – commemorates the life and work of ...
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Conspiracy Theories
Let’s for a moment forget the love-hate relationship the world at large and London in general has with Wolf-Olins London 2012 Olympic logo and consider this: last week the Iranian government threatened to boycott the Olympics if the official logo was not replaced by something less offensive. This logo it claims, flies in the face ...
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The Ideal Girl
We’ve all seen, and at some point made fun of, the Ideal Boy education charts. Over time, they have become an integral part of Indian kitsch and popular culture. I’ve always found it strange that there was never an Ideal Girl chart, and over time like many other girls have, I realised why. Good habits=Ideal ...
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A Mark of Quality
The India Design Mark or I-Mark The India Design Council (IDC) has finally launched the I-Mark, a quality tag to be conferred on ‘good design’. This is based on Japan’s G-Mark and Good Design Award, which has been in place since 1957.
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Reverse Graffiti
British graffiti artist or “grime writer” Paul Curtis a.k.a. Moose has a unique point to prove with his art. Armed with wire brushes, cleaning rags and detergent, he creates graphic works not be defiling or painting over walls, but rather by cleaning them. Attacking the dirt that builds up on walls adjoining busy streets, tunnels, ...