Constructed Thoughts: Built | Unbuilt
February 27, 2009
February 24, 2009
Feedback: Production | Transmission | Communication | Dissemination
Depart From Zero (Low signal, high noise version)
February 23, 2009
February 22, 2009
Credit Where Credits Are Due: The Past and Present (From NY Times)
Interesting and timely recap of Cinema Graphics from the past and present in NY-Times. Known and/or unknown unsung heroes/designers that created memorable title sequences for various films, through history go unacknowledged if not unnoticed. Here is a remarkable tribute.... -V.
Credit Where Credits Are Due: The Present
Credit Where Credits Are Due: The Present
February 21, 2009
After the Fall
No Downtime (or downturn) for Design
The current economic crisis, combined with environmental issues pose challenges as well as opportunities for designers. . Tied to the question is the issue of consumption. Faced with new realities and knowledge of the consequences of ignorance call for us to redefine or reinstate the role of design. Design as a response to necessity vs indulgence, or both, prompt us to look at use-patterns in a much wider context than what the 20th century consumerism did. There is a paradigm shift..... We as a consumer society have understood how to share our resources and exploit them selfishly. Time has come to also share risks; design must play a significant and responsible role for the collective good.
Recession should not mean regression.... progressive ideas come from the need to be frugal and inventive at the same time; to do more with less, is the challenge 21st century designers must embrace.
-Viren
I.D. - After the Fall
The current economic crisis, combined with environmental issues pose challenges as well as opportunities for designers. . Tied to the question is the issue of consumption. Faced with new realities and knowledge of the consequences of ignorance call for us to redefine or reinstate the role of design. Design as a response to necessity vs indulgence, or both, prompt us to look at use-patterns in a much wider context than what the 20th century consumerism did. There is a paradigm shift..... We as a consumer society have understood how to share our resources and exploit them selfishly. Time has come to also share risks; design must play a significant and responsible role for the collective good.
Recession should not mean regression.... progressive ideas come from the need to be frugal and inventive at the same time; to do more with less, is the challenge 21st century designers must embrace.
-Viren
I.D. - After the Fall
February 17, 2009
The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives | NY Times
It fascinates me to note how gullible we are as a society of the "willing victims"; and how technology has colonized us since the industrial revolution...
Our personal space is shrinking day-by-day...
-V
Our personal space is shrinking day-by-day...
-V
February 13, 2009
February 7, 2009
January 31, 2009
History of the Internet | Video
History of media and communication is also the history of culture(s). Some technologies define not only the way of life, they also change the way we see ourselves and like/want to see ourselves.
Global connectivity has not only increased communication, it has also changed the way we communicate - affecting and altering our perceptions of the world. Culture as something belonging to a particular 'place' is contaminated (albeit, in a positive sense too) and is emerging more as a flattened topography cluttered with visual, textual and non-verbal messages that we witness as a language of the new millennium.
Viren Brahmbhatt | de.Sign
Global connectivity has not only increased communication, it has also changed the way we communicate - affecting and altering our perceptions of the world. Culture as something belonging to a particular 'place' is contaminated (albeit, in a positive sense too) and is emerging more as a flattened topography cluttered with visual, textual and non-verbal messages that we witness as a language of the new millennium.
Viren Brahmbhatt | de.Sign
The Super Ad Bowl - Two Decades of Players - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
Mapping History with an interactive interface: End of Print? Interactive History and great data-graphics for those graphically and visually inclined...
Viren Brahmbhatt | de.Sign
The Super Ad Bowl - Two Decades of Players - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
Viren Brahmbhatt | de.Sign
The Super Ad Bowl - Two Decades of Players - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
January 26, 2009
January 22, 2009
January 20, 2009
January 6, 2009
Ethereal.....
Postcards From Mars
NASA
RIPPLES A crater between the southern highlands and northern lowlands, intersected by what may have been a shoreline of an ocean.
NASA
RIPPLES A crater between the southern highlands and northern lowlands, intersected by what may have been a shoreline of an ocean.
January 2, 2009
Celebrate 200 Years of Braille...
Braille: A Language of touch, that touches millions of lives and us....
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Why Braille is brilliant
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Why Braille is brilliant
January 1, 2009
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