Fictional APPLES Logo
After going through V. Pieter’s Overlapping Crescents tutorial, and ogling at Firmorama‘s portfolio. Fictional “Apples” logo. And of course after the Woolworth / Apple controversy. More like a parody eh?…
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Lucky Lips Illustrator Illustration
I’ve been spending time on the brilliant portfolio of Firmorama. while I’m certain I can reproduce / get ‘inspired’ by their creations and produce something similar looking in Adobe Photoshop,…
Icon design test
If you haven’t heard of atebits, who’ve made the hugely popular Tweetie for the iPhone or Tim Van Damme, also known as MaxVoltar, you’re probably living under a rock. At…
BarCamp Delhi, 7th Edition, Logo options
Two options : same idea. Consensus building for a logo is never easy – especially when there are paying stakeholders involved. Most decision-makers tend to think from their personal taste…
Blog and websites : Re-design & Branding Evolution
I have recently been busy with re-designing most of my screen / online / internet real-estate. For sometime now, I’ve wanted the aside brand to separate from my person ventures.…
Underwater Bokeh Wallpaper
Click the image below to view the 1440×900 px wallpaper. Right click the image that opens and save to your computer. This was one of the results of the new…
Wallpaper : Christmas 2009
Here is the latest edition of the Christmas wallpaper for Christmas 2009. Download the Christmas 2009 Wallpaper in various sizes : Widescreen 16:10 2560×1600 1920×1200 1680×1050 1440×900 1280×800 Fullscreen 4:3…
Designing the studioaside Logo
I’d worked on a logo for a stock photography company. The project did not get completed, like most ‘free’-for-profit projects. Meanwhile I’d been thinking about a logo for aside’s photography…
Happy Diwali 2009
UPDATE : October 2010 New Diwali wallpaper for 2010 here. This year, 2009, Diwali feels like Diwali. Bright and peppy, good for business and a time to be with family…
Blog re-design
The blog is being re-designed in real-time – kindly excuse any design inconsistencies. The reason the blog is being re-designed is because of a major website / portfolio revamp and…
Up-coming photography shoot
Bought a new tripod : Vivicam. Figured out auto bracketing on the Nikon D90. Experimented on the roof and the stairwell to increase comfort level with the new tripod. There’s…
Taiwanese figurines
A tiger and a bull. Also, a glowing glass pig and tortoise. You can also see a yellow-hand soap from Plastic Foliage. All in one corner of my work-table –…
Barack Obama : Creepy, irrelevant billboard ad
This billboard was displayed on one of the prominent city roads in Hyderabad – shot it when I was there a couple of weeks back on vacation. Click on the…
My Adventure Rant as an Entrepreneur
Adventures… I started out as an average student, Bachelors of Commerce, then exams for getting into a good B-School for an MBA. I was an average student at the B-School…
Logo Design for Forward Food of America
Commonly known as Forward Food. I am also documenting the process of designing this logo on my Twitter Feed – with permission from the client. Keywords and key phrases extracted…
A logo does not need to say what a company does.
It can. But it does not NEED to. Apple‘s logo does not show electronics. Nike‘s logo does not show shoes. The Mercedes logo does not show a car. The Virgin…
Chaos : Wallpaper
I also got the Wallpaper printed as a laptop skin for my Dell Studio 15. Some photographs of the laptop with the skin on it. This, below, is the wallpaper…
Bootstrap Logo : Logos for startups
aside has launched a new venture called Bootstrap Logo. As the name suggests, that’s designing logos for startups. It’s a fairly simple proposition : INR 11,160 [ or USD 225…
Wordcamp India
A two-day conference which brings together stakeholders and audiences of social media and blogging, centred around WordPress. Two very special guests – Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress & Om…
WordCamp, Delhi, India 2009 logo
This is the first iteration I’ve sent to Twilight Fairy who is heading the co-ordination of organizing India’s first ever WordPress camp. India’s National Bird is the Peacock – also…
Logo design for BarCamp Delhi 6th Edition
Just the first suggestion. The idea was to represent the city of New Delhi in the Delhi Metro Token disc used for travel on the Delhi Metro. The Metro also…
aside.in on Twitter
After initializing the design and re-design of www.nainaredhu.com and the accompanying blog, which is still far from complete, along with linking that blog’s feed to my personal Twitter account, I…
Packaging design engagement for a Rice brand
This is the latest sketch [ design and layout before the photography shoot ] that I emailed to the client a couple of hours back. Image without notes. Image with…
Post-processing of photographs
Jaideep sent me some vacation photographs to post-process and edit – more as an experiment to see what I could do with them. There was no ‘brief’ per se, but…