sketching et al

i have recently developed a sort of passion for id sketching..sketching of products as we all designers do. partly out of need of my job but its gud finally the pencil wants to come to my fingers. i am a gud sketcher at least not a bad one but have never hitherto 'treated' myself as a sketcher.always have used solidworks primarily and sketching as a tool for scribbles and modifications while creating surfaces in software. but thanks to guys like mike ditullo, spencer nugent and my colleagues at work, i finally decided to give it a go. what is more novel and straight way of evolving than nurturing a blog on sketching where i can scan and upload what i did that day. cogs cogged together as i had this "what i learnt today' blog dormant for some centuries now..so thats cool..its time to sharpen pencils and get going!!!

so everyday i will post some sketches/doodles. please criticise them.then one day you'll start loving my works as i improve by the day.

pouring tea grains into a container : physics and metaphysics involved

This is what happened today morning. Just as I was gonn refill the container that hold s tea (grains), i cud not somehow open it properly,. blame my (in)experience of 27 years or the design of the packaging but the grains just spilled all over the place. was i hasty? i feel partly deign would have to be blamed but maybe i was toom indecisive befor opening oit whether i wanted to open it and fall into the container or whether i wanted to have the 'feel' and sound of the poacket opening. Of course when u want the seconds one, you need to have as much extended a tear length as you can possibly can. I guess thats what i was aiming it. I wanted to hear that pppprrrrr...sound of the plasic being 'locally extended, fatigued, stresses fgetting distributed and strains getting linear to exponential'. Maybe the sound comes from the mindboggling calculations that plastic has to do in jsut a couple of nano seconds???? who knows.

coming back. I am amazed at my on the spot indecision to know what i want. i guess careful ppl (they generally are called mothers) are much more focused and goal oriented than a 27 year old | just woke up | paid for as a designer | on a saturday morning. These careful ppl'sminds seem to say befor opening the tea packet "hey lisyten yopu hands, i want it to fall exactly this much amount in exatcly this way and in this container only. the packaging shud be ripped in a way tght i can fold ity and preserve the rest ofg the tea grains for next refill" not all of us can become mothers but hey do we need to work opn taht 'bneing decisive' part ?????

of napkins-paper and mental

While using a paper napkin in office i observed how intricate the procedure actually was. First they are not great water absorbers (as we the users perceive generally, hence ending up using more than what is actually required) The steps are generally as follows. A user enters the mirror and sink area washes his hands and that verytime, does he make a decison how many napkins he's gonna use?? First two (given my huge size of hands), for me, get straight soaked in water off my hand, so they dont do anything practically. Its the third, fourth and 5th that dry up the hand. Interesting is to observe whether the used napkin has been utilised to iuts optimum? I dobt we utilise even 70% of it. Most pof them are designed for stackability and ease of dispensation. I still feel the need to investigate whether there is a way that we could somehow utilise per square cm of paper to its maximum.

Do we as users map wiping as a function that is thickness-of-paper defined? Does the fold in paper (for ease of dispensing and stacking) serve any purpose or is the main culprit when users fail to open it with their wet hands? Do they actually care?Is the user finally satisfied if he did it well? The most interesting point of enquiry for me is that at what exact point do we take a decision that the particular napkin we are using is ready for throwing. Finally can we design a paper-economical napkin??.......shall soon research and post my findings..

start something new...soon!

It was interesting as it has always been-talking to friends that share wavelets with you. Talking to Sahil about what I fear the most... that I continue getting creative kicks and impetuses from the things that fascinate me (visual complexity and all that intersection space of physical and intangible) and all I do is just fantasize about doing something but dont end up doing anything. He questioned why would I think that. He mentioned David Nightingale, the founder of chromasia who started uploading a pic a day off his new camera and now that initial day to day activity is a big venture that earns him enough divident to have left his job and dedicate his full time to the photoblog....it finally occured to me that neither larry page/sergei brinn or mark zuckerberg started wiuth a well laid out plan of startimng a google or a facebook. All they did was:::they started somewhere. yaar abhishek this is the crux. start something right here right now. make mistakes faster, learn and grow and do it. dont go into too much of analysis. Intuition is always greater a force than knowledge.... coz intuition is an absolute value entity, whether it be a child's or einstein's. Knowledge is a mix of fact and reflection thus could be a limited entity....the lesson : start something that excites you today dont delve too much into its future that you anlaysis says dont do it. Its better to do something and fail than not do at all. In fact do it to fail. If its great it wont....

IBM Press room - 2008-11-25 IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives in the Next Five Years - United States

An interesting piece of information shared by IBM. I read somewhere that Microsoft and IBM have actually come up with a list of 'trends' that they feel (or want us to feel they feel) shall change the world in the coming times..........Here is the IBM list


IBM Press room - 2008-11-25 IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives in the Next Five Years - United States

Soumitri and Social Innovation via Faint Voice

Dr. Soumitri ttaught us at IIT for a couple of months before he left for his role with RMIT Design SChool. An ardent 'Social Sleuth' that he is, he is expressive when it comes to any issue that is in the domain of social entrepreneurship, community based particpatory design, etal. He is a master of throwing random trajectories in conversation and in thought. Its up to you, the students, to catch them, intrepret thing (not understand) and do something abt it....At least thats what I think about him... read his blog that I am referencing taking some 'company-paid' hours off my monday morning office, but thats okay. The company should want their employees to be smart and updated...

Social Innovation « Faint Voice

samsung day.......hello in korean

A Korean Hello!