Posted on June 23, 2009 by Paavani
Few days back I got a chance to meet Axel Meyer, Head of Nokia N-Series Design. He was in town to talk about latest Nokia’s N97. There were lots of questions about operating system, camera, battery, storage and touch screen.
Lots of comparison with phones available / or releasing soon in same segment also happened, like [...]
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Posted on June 5, 2009 by Paavani
You love your family because they are part of you and you need them. You love you house because you put lots of effort to build it. You even love your job because it pays you.
But how much do you love your mother earth? Anyway, I am back to you. You love your family member [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2009 by Paavani
Other day I was having a conversation on recent ban on China toys, suddenly someone questioned, who is a toy designer? I recalled my post graduation days, when I was doing specialization in Toy design. Everyone thought it would be like making soft toys. It took long for me to explain that a toy designer [...]
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Posted on September 23, 2008 by Paavani
If the role of color in any industry is very important than so is reading a consumer mind and coming up with a color forecast that will be liked my many (if not all) is very difficult.
Recent issues of design & interior magazines shows how new technologies and inventory features and interesting lighting and new [...]
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Posted on August 1, 2007 by Paavani
It has been long time since I blogged about anything. What was it means: nothing new happening or was I so busy that didn’t get time. No, nothing like that. It was just that when there was over information flow, one get lost what to talk.
Silence is golden at times.
BTW I was quite [...]
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Posted on June 25, 2007 by Paavani
Crafty Story -II (A series on Indian Crafts)
Have you ever noticed what are the colors used for your favorite blue shirt? Are they natural or synthetic and artifically made? How much are they harmful to the enviroment or our body? Yes, I am talking about the colors and its impact on health and environment.
Dry colors, vegetable [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2007 by Paavani
Now a days I spend lots of time in traveling. And I think at times how much conscious are we towards our environment.
Driving clean means going green or improving the environment quality. As CNG started getting grown as a major fuel source more and more car making companies giving option for CNG model. Compressed [...]
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Posted on February 17, 2007 by Paavani
Finally, India got its own design policy on 9th Feb, 2007.
From many years many people related with design industries & education, along with CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) and DIPP (Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion), were working on this. Design drafts were made and nothing happened much in the area of so called Design, [...]
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Posted on October 14, 2006 by Paavani
The festival season is around – after Dussehra, it’s the turn of the festival of light ‘Diwali’ with its counterpart Eid. So you can visualize the celebration happening inside home and outside (pockets) too. In India, a lot of importance is laid out to Navartri vrat, Diwali puja and Ramzan’s roza.
As I am really passionate [...]
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Posted on July 5, 2006 by Paavani
Craft is the one such subject that is always known to everyone from the very young age. Its such a distinctive thing that could be seen everywhere you go because every place have own specialty- craft of that city which have own art & grandeur. There is a legacy in making of it, there is [...]
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