Packaging Design
This was my first foray into packaging design – customized chocolate wrappers for an Investment Fund Management company – Aquamarine Fund. The client is based in the US and the…
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Identity Insights
Interesting post on the subject of corporate identity design from the Forty – Business Blog. Nobody likes the guy at the party who’s trying to impress everyone. Be cool and…
Website Holding Page
Designed the splash page or holding page for a friend’s personal website. It needed improvement – more subtle – more dreamy.
Web designers, Clients and their web domain names
I’ve been interacting with two local clients – within India – and I am hearing more and more horror stories about how their web designer owns their website domain. It’s…
More on spec work in the Design Industry
I’ve written earlier about speculative work in the design industry and am an avid supporter of NO!SPEC. I have time and again come across clients who regularly say “So what…
Why is logo design expensive?
Usually that’s because a logo is an image that carries intellectual property with it. The client can get it registered, trademark it and claim it as her own. The logo…
aside is now in Goa
I am in Goa for the New Years and aside will be closed from 26th December 2006 till the 7th of January 2007. See you in 2007!
Photoshop CS3 Beta
Adobe is making the beta release of Photoshop CS3 available for download via Adobe Labs. Got this from John Nack. He’s also posted some resources for getting to know the…
Seasonal Logo design #1
Nabil left me a comment on the Seasonal logo design experiment and we now have one logo that’s snowed in for the holiday season! Nabil’s blog has a header with…
Seasonal Logo design experiment
I’m going to do some giving for the holiday season. If you have noticed on the main aside website, I have added some snow to the aside logo. For the…
Snowy aside
I finally managed to add some seasonal element to the main aside website! I am in New Delhi where it doesn’t snow but seeing all the snow all over the…
the 2nd Wacom Holiday Season Contest
I’ve been part of the Wacom Community for sometime [ wrote The Business of Design for their Pro Corner Column ] and they are currently having a Holiday Season Contest.…
Global Voice Summit
I just heard about this happening in New Delhi and have signed-up – am on a waiting list because they’re full. I haven’t been to any of the blog/internet/online related…
Logo design for Industrial Organics Limited or IOLCP
After analyzing the filled-in Creative Brief, the following four concepts/themes were chosen: 1. Environment Friendly [ as a chemicals and pharmaceuticals manufacturing company, IOLCP pays particular attention to the effects…
What’s new at the aside design studio
The blog’s been re-re-designed. I wasn’t too happy with the boxy feel of the Qwilm theme [ originally seen on Lokesh’s Huddletogether ]. So I tweaked and tweaked and…
What Design Means
Apart from the fact that it’s a good article on the above topic, it has some other non-design related parts that rhyme well with the way I work/aside works. For…
Dreamhost Hosting Discount
UPDATE : 27th April, 2008. This promo code has been discontinued by aside. For more details on how you can still sign up for the best hosting provider on the…
Christmas Wallpaper
UPDATE : Christmas Wallpaper for 2008 Christmas Wallpaper for 2009 I did the Diwali wallpaper in 2005 and then followed-up with Diwali wallpapers for 2006. Update: There’s a Christmas wallpaper…
Logo Design for Trishul
I recently completed a project for Srijith Nair, for the Trishul research project at the Department of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands. A Trishul is a…
Blogs as weapons of mass communication
I’ve been a huge proponent of using blogs for communicating with clients, fellow-professionals and the public in general. In India, the uptake of blogs has been phenomenal but we’re still…