Dragons Always Win

Headlight (again)

2010-02-13T02:09:00.000-08:00

I just realized I hadn't put these up some months ago when I put up my logos for 'Headlight', the NGO working for road safety awareness. These posters were part of their campaign and were put up in Urban Pind, a popular Club in New Delhi.

Typography

2010-01-06T14:22:00.000-08:00

Yay! Typography again! I was happiest the past week, OD-ing on typography. Here's the best three of what I did.

The Summit of Olympus - Misc.

2009-12-26T11:19:00.000-08:00

Godie Bag:
Notepad:

Folder:

Badge Design:
Certificate:

Lots of miscellaneous things for the Summit. Notepad, Folder, Goodie bag, Certificate and Badges.

The Summit of Olympus - Invitation

2009-12-26T11:17:00.001-08:00

Invitation design for the Summit of Olympus.

Summit of Olympus - Sweat shirt design

2009-12-26T11:10:00.000-08:00

Sweat Shirt Design for the Summit of Olympus. Illustrations done by none other than The Ratfinke (Jemma Jose).

LOLWTFBBQ - Our Favorite Color.

2009-11-28T12:17:00.000-08:00

LOLWTFBBQ. That’s what she’d be thinking if she had seen the pandit’s reaction to her name today at her cremation. Trust her to laugh at almost anything in the world. For instance, at a small “pseudo and wannabe” round about in the street, or at the sheer randomness of utterly random words like “Pinni”, or at names in our accounts book, or at the stories we wove around those names.

We’d sit in class and do everything other than what we’re supposed to do. I remember, a month before her birthday or shall I call it “Purple Jayanti”, we’d start planning her party. And by planning, I mean HARDCORE EVENT MANAGEMENT. We’d go over themes and music and food and music and drinks and music and venues and music, etc. Then the same process ensued for the Halloween party. The planning would inevitably end being more fun than the party itself. Ah the parties. Pissing everyone off by playing our awesome “cheap Bollywood” and grooving to it like there’s no tomorrow. Not caring, if people thought us to be odd. We were odd. I mean, we danced to “Bhumbro” on Halloween. IN our costumes. Quite odd.

She and I had the most arbitrary humor ever. Our IM conversations would be gibberish to most, but hours of laughter for us. Phrases like ‘mandir mein aag’, ‘33’, ‘Kar hi lete hain’, etc. would be what we’d ROFLMAO about.

Our “Bring Your Own Lunar Energy Harnessing Device (B.Y.O.L.E.H) Parties”. Classic.

Our watching all Harry Potter films (3^rd to 5^th anyway) together.

Standing in line at 4 am for Deathly Hallows.

Yelling our lungs out in the mall at 6 am upon receiving Deathly Hallows.

Making fun of Akshay and his folders, Shegz and her laughter, Hottie and his hotness, N-series and their sheer existence, Tudi, Pudi, Ana p, Shinder, Kailad, Sheggy. Aaahh. Awesomeness has never manifested itself in such forms. And never will.

Be it her rendition of Aladdin (WAY better than Walt Disney’s), or the screening of “Bhola in Bollywood”, She was all about the laughs. Always.

She always said, “With a name like Purple, it’s hard not to be popular”. Today, from the people who came to pay their respect to her, and from all the status messages on facebook, it is evident that all these people associated with her way beyond just her name. She reached out to so many people, it was hard not to know her if you study/studied in GD Goenka. It was hard not to be affected by such a vibrant, happy and overwhelming personality. And then there’s always the name.

Today, when everyone is praying for her soul to Rest In Peace, for her family to find solace and strength, for her to be remembered forever, just one unattainable wish comes to my mind,

"Come back.”

- Kailapalooza

The Summit of Olympus - Promotional/Informational Poster

2009-11-25T09:21:00.000-08:00

This is their final promotional/informational poster. It's huge and its super duper bright. The theme of the summit is Greek mythology. The usage of bright, non-Greek colors is because I wanted to infuse the Greek theme with a modern feel to it, since the Summit is not about Greek itself, but about leadership (a more modern concept).

The Summit of Olympus - Website

2009-11-25T09:07:00.000-08:00

Aaaannnd, I also designed their website: http://olympussummit.du.ac.in

The Summit of Olympus - Teaser Poster

2009-11-25T08:57:00.000-08:00

Teaser Posters for The Summit of Olympus.

2009-11-25T08:51:00.001-08:00

As the organizers would say, "The Summit of Olympus is a three day Skill Building Workshop based Summit presented by Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, University of Delhi, Central Placement Cell and The Career and Counseling Cell of University of Delhi along with the Office of the Dean, Students’ Welfare, Delhi University. The Summit will bring together some of the best minds in the country to develop and hone their leadership potential..."

...And all that jazz. Basically it is an event in Delhi University, and I'm doing ALL its promotional design. So for the next few weeks, most of the stuff on my bloggy will be about The Summit of Olympus.

These here are the two final logo options. The one with the pillar is now their logo.

2009-11-25T08:35:00.000-08:00

2009-11-20T11:22:00.000-08:00

Post after a reallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy long time. This was part of our design methodology assignment. 'Maati' being a mela for promotion of the matka. I designed this print advertisement for the event. A different color scheme pervaded the final one, but I like this one more!

What I said in my sleep last night.

2009-10-17T03:15:00.000-07:00

Ok, so this is a new thing I'm starting on my blog. I have a horrible (and very funny) sleep talking habit. The things I say in my sleep are truly fascinating and utterly random.

For starters, I remember, some months ago, Sruti (check out her "hmmmm...." blog) was staying over at my place. In the morning she tells me that while sleeping I randomly started making scary footstep noises. And then I even more randomly started saying "Get in the lift, get in the lift!" I mean, wtf? Anyway, Sruti got shit scared. Lol at that.

Many more funny sleep talking incidents later, there was one yesterday which is kinda ultimate. I'm in Bombay with my cousin right now. My cousin just told me that I randomly got up, and by got up, she means actually stood up and started speaking in a British accent! Out of all the things I said, my aunt remembers me saying "Give me my money, Ayesha!" I don't even know an Ayesha. I woke up everybody in the room in the middle of the night because I was asking for money from someone who does not exist. Seriously, WTF?

Inking the stress away!

2009-10-15T15:12:00.002-07:00

Ok, my newest stress buster: Photo inks. They.are.awesome. I love playing around with them when I'm stressed, which I have been lately (due to many reason beyond the scope of this blog). Anyway, I'm kinda glad I was stressed, because I re-discovered my love for photo inks. This is what I did.

Cool thing: I ended up using all this photo ink art as vector art in posters, other graphics, etc! Awesomeness occurs. Will soon be putting up the posters where I used all this.

First Year Assignments!

2009-10-02T11:01:00.000-07:00

Typography assignments in first sem. I was so glad for this module and for Mr. Mahendra Patel. It made me realize my love for typography!! :D

The assignment was to take a letter and figure out the arrangements of a word starting with that letter, a tagline for the word and a paragraph of dummy text.

New Job! (contd.)

2009-09-28T14:45:00.001-07:00

Banner for the same gym in Bombay. My first street hoarding! YAY! :D

New job!

2009-09-28T14:38:00.000-07:00

This is a promotion thing I did for this gym in Bombay. They are posters for ads in cafes and places.

Conclusions.

2009-09-23T09:53:00.000-07:00

Class assignment: Choose a quote related to design and design a poster around it. The words floating about are supposed to be the thoughts of a typical design student, all congregating at the bottom to form a conclusion.

Headlight: Road Safety Awareness

2009-09-23T09:32:00.000-07:00

Two logos I did for this NGO starting up in Delhi. Headlight. The NGO is originally from France, and works for spreading road safety awareness. The traffic light one got selected. Good. That's the one I like ;)

Dil Bole Martial Arts.

2009-09-22T13:04:00.000-07:00

Saw Dil Bole Hadippa today. It was a fun, time pass sort of film. Kinda preachy though. Actually it tried to be preachy, what with talking about Indo-pak peace and women empowerment whilst showing a blossoming tale of love between the protagonists, reconciliation between the parents and cricket matches. All this done in typical yash raj style, with the songs, dances and the vibrant colors of Punjab. Things that make Bollywood what it is. And things that make people like me enjoy a film. Rani Mukherjee was really funny as a boy, in a juvenile sort of way. As a girl, she was just... Rani Mukherjee, nothing special. One time watch. Oh, and the movie is not really a rip off of She's the Man. Just the basic idea. They're both quite distinct in their story.

Cool thing: Random kid in theater was inventing some sort of new martial art style. Looked a little like tai-chi. He/She (couldn't tell in the dark) would randomly flail about the hall. Quite funny. Oh, also, whenever anybody in the film would cheer/applaud, this kid would stop inventing his/her new martial art style and would join in the cheering/applauding. Once the cheering/applauding would end, he/she would very matter-of-factly resume with his/her flailing.

Psycho Patterns

2009-09-22T06:37:00.000-07:00

College assignment: Patterns. That's the only thing our faculty ever comes up with. EVER. Patterns, patterns and more patterns. The modules will change, but the patterns remain. It's like they were born in a frikin' pattern. This is one pattern in different colors. The only one I did, that I like.

Cool thing: Different people liked different color combinations. Anushka liked the boring blue one, Bucky (Taaneya) liked the pink and green one, and I obviously liked the brightest red one.

Lucy Junebug Sleepsalot

2009-09-21T01:14:00.000-07:00

Lucy says Hi!

Photograph courtesy Robin.

Anti Racism Thingmajig

2009-09-21T01:03:00.000-07:00

Was listening to the song 'Aye Saaye Mere' from New York, and completely fell in love with this line. Got full inspired and this is what happened.

The ACTUAL Wordle

2009-09-21T00:56:00.000-07:00

The one that got used :)

Gulmohar Days Wordle

2009-09-19T17:03:00.000-07:00

I love typography. The wordle that did not get used. Another one did. Gulmohar Days is a coolio organization that does coolio things for kids and coolio things for the environment, run by one of our visiting faculty members. It's fun to help out! Especially when I get to do coolio things like typography and paper mache. Separately. Though together would be fun. Messy but fun. Oh, and I am aware of the excessive usage of the word 'coolio'. But it's just a coolio word. So yeah.

Seventy Two.

2009-09-19T16:55:00.000-07:00

Yay! This was when I got my tablet. One of the first things i used it for. :D

P.S. The text is irrelevant. Couldn't think of anything else to draw around. Quite random, I know.

The Big Bang Theory

2009-09-19T16:37:00.000-07:00

Vacation work again. Named after one of my favorite tv shows and after my favorite....umm... theory?

Strands

2009-09-19T15:33:00.000-07:00

Randomness during the vacation.

Simplicity. Was a simpler time then.

First day.

2009-09-19T15:18:00.000-07:00

First blog post. Feels good. Don't know where to start.