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June 23rd, 2008

Best Indian Websites 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Best Indian websites of 2008 as ranked by PC World India. Strangely no blogs category where I assume good designs exist too.

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June 3rd, 2008

Pragati Magazine Cover

One of the coolest magazine covers ever [PDF link]. You can judge the content of this book by its cover. Excellent content as always.

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May 19th, 2008

Facelift for Facebook

Facebook is slated for a major overhaul as its designers aim for a “simpler, cleaner, and more relevant” look by decluttering your profile pages. It also will introduce tabs that will emphasize your ‘Wall’ and ‘Photos’ apart from your profile details; all applications will be dumped under one tab. I’m already past my Facebook addiction [...]

Patrix | Posted In Asides, Design, World Wide Web | Tagged Comments 1 Comment »

May 10th, 2008

Change in Theme Design

After resisting for more than a year, I finally gave in and changed my theme last night. The previous one had served me well and I persisted with it primarily due to several customizations I had made. But it was getting too clunky and boring. And I wasn’t blogging regularly so why not tinker around [...]

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February 22nd, 2008

Font We Can Believe In

The Helvetica Film blog (wow! a blog on a movie about a font? That’s high praise for a font) writes on Barack Obama campaign font, Gotham.

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October 25th, 2007

Logo Redesign

Ever notice when a company wants to overhaul its image, it doesn’t start at the point of customer contact but rather with its logo. Hence graphic designers are in great demand but not all do a great job. Take a look at the best and the worst of logo redesigns.

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October 5th, 2007

WordPress Magazine Themes

If you think your blog is more than a blog and are bored of the typical 2-3 column look, check out these Magazine Themes. I’m resisting changing my theme and trying to focus more on writing content.

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June 5th, 2007

London 2012 unveils a horrid Olympics logo

I must agree with Amit that this logo has to be one of the worst logos of all time. The official drumroll during the unveiling of the logo said, “Available in four colours – pink, blue, green and orange - the new emblem is modern and will be dynamic, evolving in the years between [...]

Patrix | Posted In Design, Sports | Tagged Comments 9 Comments »

April 1st, 2007

RIP Laurie Baker

Laurie Baker, the British-born architect settled in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala died today at age 90. Known primarily for his work in designing low-cost housing by using local materials, he was a source of inspiration to all those architects who wished to return to their roots [image source].
Laurie understood that the real architecture of India lay in [...]

Patrix | Posted In Art and Architecture, Design, India | Tagged Comments 1 Comment »

March 10th, 2007

Turning on ClearType in Windows XP

When Internet Explorer on my system was upgraded to ver.7, I noticed a difference in the way fonts were rendered in the browser. It looked smoother and had a soft-focus quality to it. I didn’t know exactly what it was but I liked what I saw. But I like using Firefox more than the way [...]

Patrix | Posted In Design, Technology | Tagged Comments 4 Comments »

February 25th, 2007

The Beauty of the Toilet Bowl

It is cleaning day on Saturday in our household (err…apartment-hold) and we usually alternate between taking turns at the kitchen and the bathrooms. It was my turn this weekend at the bathrooms. Now, I pride myself at cleaning things so everything has to be done not only to perfection but also in a systematic fashion [...]

Patrix | Posted In Design, Technology | Tagged Comments 10 Comments »

January 26th, 2007

Google’s 3D University

Today the Build Your Campus in 3D Competition begins. This spring, you and your (presumably equally artistic) friends can honor your campus turf as you hone your 3D design skills just by modeling your school’s campus buildings in Google SketchUp, geo-reference them in Google Earth, and submit them through the competition website to earn lasting [...]

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January 26th, 2007

Upgrade to Wordpress 2.1 and K2 Theme Changes

If you have noticed, this blog has undergone some changes [if you are reading this thru a feed, now is the time to drop by]. It started out with upgrading Wordpress to the latest version which as usual was smooth. It is the backing up of the files that is painful. Unlike other upgrades, the [...]

Patrix | Posted In Design, Weblogs | Tagged Comments 6 Comments »

January 21st, 2007

Why Apple Makes Grown Men Cry (in joy)

On paper I don’t even like capitalism that much, or believe in The American Way, or think that gadgets — or any possession — can make us happy. I’m not the kind of guy who normally watches corporate presentations, let alone watches them through tears. And yet when Steve Jobs introduced the clamshell iBook back [...]

Patrix | Posted In Business, Design, Technology | Tagged Comments 1 Comment »

February 20th, 2006

Stealing from Ikea

This article in San Francisco Chronicle and another one in CS Monitor (also posted on Arzan’s blog) points us to the rampant use of Ikea catalogs for designing home furniture for India’s blossoming middle-class. These catalogs are sold at the traffic lights in the suburbs along with issues of Vogue and other upscale magazine, attracting [...]

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