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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 ...
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An i for an i
The India Design Mark is back. And so is the criticism. The mark, also called the I-Mark, is to be India’s recognition of good design. After a failed attempt at selecting and launching a crowd-sourced logo, the competition was announced again with, what the organisers (India Design Council or IDC) hoped was, more clarity on ...
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Modernity for Kolkata: KMOMA
Kolkata, that long-time bastion of turn-of-the-century culture, and the home of Bangla gentility, is ready to take its place among the great art cities of the world. London has its Tate Modern, New York has its MoMA, and now Kolkata will have KMOMA — the Kolkata Museum of Modern Art. Needless to say, design ...
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Acer Unveils Their New Logo, Hopes Someone Cares
Acer is in a quest to be whole lot more like Apple. If you thought that this is an exercise in futility – you’d be right. Thats like KIA trying to transform itself into becoming Maserati. There is just one Maserati and there is and can only be one Apple (thankfully). But over at Acer ...
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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, ...
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Brit Insurance Design Awards 2011
The sun is just about managing to shrug off a rather cold winter in London and what better way to showcase a bit of optimism than this year’s Brit Insurance Design Awards. The nominees have been announced and the top floor of the Design Museum has been taken over by the functional, amusing and in ...
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Stumpy: The World Cup Mascot
For once in my life, I don’t instinctively know that there’s a cricket world cup going on, given that in good ol’ Blighty where the game originated, not a radio can be heard belting out live scores, not a hoarding seen with team-spirited punchlines and not a headline in the daily newspaper over the latest ...
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Digital Fonts in the MoMA Collection
It’s not everyone that thinks of a typefaces as designed objects that need to be used with care, unless they’re designers, serious typophiles and/or people like me who have limited patience with people who set Powerpoint presentations in 18-point Comic Sans. It definitely got my serifs excited when I heard that an institution like the ...