a thunder storm..
heavy rain deep within inside...
the mind on the verge of collapsing on ground..
I close all the windows...
I seal my lips, I cose my eyes..
I try my best to keep quiet and stop expressing..
the deep silence inside out...
and it ends up expressing it all...
I just forgot,
silence has a loud voice too!!!!
Monday, August 25, 2008
Sunday, August 24, 2008
design v/s reality and form v/s function
Now these are highly objectionable topics actually! But all you (& me) designers, for a while just keep that designer aside and read as a common man (I know how difficult it is!)
I don't remember how it happened exactly, but day before yesterday afternoon I came across this website about new cellphones. It had pictures of new Sony Ericsson radio phone R306i. The name itself was very interesting and the concept even more interesting. They had made a phone which actually looked like a radio with two speakers! A very classic black backelite radio look indeed! It has a brushed aluminium centre display cum control butons placed between the two big speaker nets. I was very impressed by the styling considering the said low price range. Considering Sony's success in walkman series phones range, I expected this to be a good if not the best option for buyers. Two huge speakers on a phone!!! wowwww...
The same evening on my way back home I searched for a nearby sony showroom and straight away asked if that radio phone is launched or not. It was!!! And just the next moment all my imaginations. assumptions broke to open to the reality. He handed me over a phone dummy which just didn't feel like the one I saw on website! It had the same form, but the speaker net and body looked like a cheap plastic FM radio, the centre brushed aluminium panel was actually a very cheap chrome plated one! and to top it all, it had no external display, which I had assumed can be seen only while functioning! This is not all. I knew it was a clamshell phone, but when I opened it it was as good looking as a slim calculator! I have no words to explain.... Radio phone from Sony Ericsson is a very good idea, the pictures of concept I saw on website were also very good, so much that they actually took me that showroom. But the real phone!!!
Photography is an art, advertising is even bigger art and they certainly take the design to a higher desirable level. Its just that reality is stereoscopic.... :)
Ohh and about the second part of the topic, form v/s function! Now I know that every designer tries his best to integrate both in his design. But zoom out of that particular concept a bit, look at what is available in the market, as a common man/buyer. I did this in that sony showroom, on websites... for a lot of time. But I just couldn't end up liking both form and function in one same phone! If I have to buy one, I will have to force myself to choose either of form or function. When I zoom out even more and look at whar people are doing in this regard, they are happy choosing from whats on display. The problem is just with me.. that I am a designer!!!
I don't remember how it happened exactly, but day before yesterday afternoon I came across this website about new cellphones. It had pictures of new Sony Ericsson radio phone R306i. The name itself was very interesting and the concept even more interesting. They had made a phone which actually looked like a radio with two speakers! A very classic black backelite radio look indeed! It has a brushed aluminium centre display cum control butons placed between the two big speaker nets. I was very impressed by the styling considering the said low price range. Considering Sony's success in walkman series phones range, I expected this to be a good if not the best option for buyers. Two huge speakers on a phone!!! wowwww...
The same evening on my way back home I searched for a nearby sony showroom and straight away asked if that radio phone is launched or not. It was!!! And just the next moment all my imaginations. assumptions broke to open to the reality. He handed me over a phone dummy which just didn't feel like the one I saw on website! It had the same form, but the speaker net and body looked like a cheap plastic FM radio, the centre brushed aluminium panel was actually a very cheap chrome plated one! and to top it all, it had no external display, which I had assumed can be seen only while functioning! This is not all. I knew it was a clamshell phone, but when I opened it it was as good looking as a slim calculator! I have no words to explain.... Radio phone from Sony Ericsson is a very good idea, the pictures of concept I saw on website were also very good, so much that they actually took me that showroom. But the real phone!!!
Photography is an art, advertising is even bigger art and they certainly take the design to a higher desirable level. Its just that reality is stereoscopic.... :)
Ohh and about the second part of the topic, form v/s function! Now I know that every designer tries his best to integrate both in his design. But zoom out of that particular concept a bit, look at what is available in the market, as a common man/buyer. I did this in that sony showroom, on websites... for a lot of time. But I just couldn't end up liking both form and function in one same phone! If I have to buy one, I will have to force myself to choose either of form or function. When I zoom out even more and look at whar people are doing in this regard, they are happy choosing from whats on display. The problem is just with me.. that I am a designer!!!
Thursday, August 21, 2008
problems....
I don't have any problem with someone's wrong deeds,
but I certainly have problem with their wrong intentions!
I don't have any problem with someone's lack of knowledge,
but I certainly have problem with their lack of wilingness to know!
I don't have any problem with people with shattered dreams,
but I certainly have problem with those having no dreams!
I don't have any problem working with people having some fears and limits,
but I certainly have problem working with those having no confidence and hope!
I don't have any problem if I have many problems,
but I certainly have problem if I don't enjoy them!
:)
but I certainly have problem with their wrong intentions!
I don't have any problem with someone's lack of knowledge,
but I certainly have problem with their lack of wilingness to know!
I don't have any problem with people with shattered dreams,
but I certainly have problem with those having no dreams!
I don't have any problem working with people having some fears and limits,
but I certainly have problem working with those having no confidence and hope!
I don't have any problem if I have many problems,
but I certainly have problem if I don't enjoy them!
:)
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
rossi must ride......
Its been 4 months I havent posted anything here.... not that nothing happened worth it.... or may be it was so much that I couldn't put it in words here... I know this is not a right excuse for blogger, but when I look back I feel I talked so much to myself during all this time! May be it was a very critical transition phase for me... from a student to a professional... from a PDit to NIDian... from senior to supersenior.... from a son to a responsible son.... and so many other simultaneous transitions! There was lot worth writing about.... but I couldn't... rather I didn't... I have no explanation.
Now everything in professional as well as personal life seems to have become routine. All the excitements as well as worries of this new phase have become part of this routine. And then there is this realization of myself beyond all these. These things which I am supposed to get excited or worried about... decided by myself or by others or just by my being in that particular situations! But there is still one 'me' who is something beyond all these, 'me' who has again rediscovered the joy of riding, the joy of writing, the joy of being myself! It's the same person who had lot of complains about his old bike, its weak brakes, mad ahmedabad traffic etc some 2-3 months ago, it's the same person who is now enjoying every inch of his bike ride in same ahmedabad, the same person who has discovered his inclination towards maneuvering skill than speed of the bike, it's the same person who has again realized the need to stick to his goal and not the momentary path, the person who is back to his visual communications and advertising love!
Yes there are still many things to be rediscovered... And I am sure I will do it before time..... may be one day I will be giving some surprise musical or dance performance to my friends... and ya... it will be surprising for just them, not me! because I am just being rediscovered by myself!!!
Now everything in professional as well as personal life seems to have become routine. All the excitements as well as worries of this new phase have become part of this routine. And then there is this realization of myself beyond all these. These things which I am supposed to get excited or worried about... decided by myself or by others or just by my being in that particular situations! But there is still one 'me' who is something beyond all these, 'me' who has again rediscovered the joy of riding, the joy of writing, the joy of being myself! It's the same person who had lot of complains about his old bike, its weak brakes, mad ahmedabad traffic etc some 2-3 months ago, it's the same person who is now enjoying every inch of his bike ride in same ahmedabad, the same person who has discovered his inclination towards maneuvering skill than speed of the bike, it's the same person who has again realized the need to stick to his goal and not the momentary path, the person who is back to his visual communications and advertising love!
Yes there are still many things to be rediscovered... And I am sure I will do it before time..... may be one day I will be giving some surprise musical or dance performance to my friends... and ya... it will be surprising for just them, not me! because I am just being rediscovered by myself!!!
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