2008

“‘Loving someone means taking the risk that they might fuck...”
— Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother...

Philips updates its wordmark! via BrandNew

Bad Designer Tee's

Love these designs. They make fun of bad designs or bad designers.:D via bdthreads

szymon: Chocolator Chocolate Calculator

What's a logo worth?

Sweet Content (Packaging) via DieLine

“Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing...”
— William Arthur Ward (via...

Bought Ben Caldwell's Dracula and Tom...

I wasn’t expecting to see Ben Caldwell’s classics in Odyssey Book Store y’day but...

Watched KungFu Panda Yesterday

Great comedy and good animation. I loved the movie and Jack Black rocked as Po, the Panda.

Intrigue Logo is Featured in LogoPond...

This is the second gallery addition for my logos. Click here to view the logo on my blog.

A. R. Rahman's Sakkarakatti Audio

Hmmm… apart from Marudhaani that is a usual Rahman fare the soundtrack sounds a li’l...

“Motivation is the urge to seek positive feedback....”
— Scott H Young (via...

“An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an...”
— Pierre Bonnard

Participatory Advertising for Chevy...

A billboard in London posted by Chevrolet created quite a scene recently. The billboard featured A...

CNET revamps its Logo

(via BrandNew)

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Typography Workshop

People Magazine Launches India Edition.

The famous hollywood gossip magazine ‘People’ is brought to India by Outlook group. It...

“It has been said that nearly all of our worries and...”
— Dale Carnegie (via...

radard: travors.com

My Illustration is added to IllyPads...

My Namaste illustration is added to the gallery of illyPads today! illyPads is a sister site of...

“Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as...”
— Lillian Hellman (via...

via Original Linkage

implodr: This is what the world would look like without...

New Tumblr Theme

I switched to using a new Tumblr theme named Vertigo designed by Matthew Buchanan inspired by the...

My Logo Got Selected for 'Logo From...

My ‘Catapult’ logo is selected for display on the site Logo From Dreams. Grreat! :) I...

Has Bajaj Copied Volkswagen Logo?

Interesting read from a blog. And that’s Volkswagen’s logo flipped 90 degees! via BOB,...

“I didn’t get into design to be an artist. To me, an...”
— Mike Davidson

Udhaya by A. R. Rahman.

Heard this song while paying bill at ‘More.’ (supermarket) Current favorite Tamil song....

Designer of Air India's logo.

Mr. Arnab Roy designed this and posted on his Flickr account. The picture above shows how the old...

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you...”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (via...

After 4 days of its release, IMDB places...

At this moment, 8,971 votes are cast to make Wall-E the top 6 film on the IMDB’s Top 250 list...

Walmart unveils its new logo.

Strangely, the curves are limited to the capital W and the small a’s. This is the first time...

Logo for AlGore's Campaign

It reads as both We and Me. The logo has been designed by Collins. The campaign says “You...

“Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly...”
— Jeffery Veen

Branding in four Indian Airports

I wrote about this on one of my blogs. These are pictures (taken from afaqs) that show branding in...

“If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest...”
— Anonymous (via onherway) (via...

Tumblr Design Update!

I tweaked settings in Tumblr theme and revved up the look and feel of my micro blog! Hope you like...

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than...”
— J.k. Rowling (via onherway) I...

“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean,...”
— George Carlin (via...

36 beautiful business cards

I was surprised!

I was going through this link that has some great images that have 3D typography and suddenly my...

Heroes Season 3 Set Photos

Obama unveils new logo design for his...

VH1 India Revamps

The international music and lifestyle channel from Viacom recently went for a makeover. The graphics...

Wall of tiles at the end of the Design Street at NID with a...

Is Yahoo! experimenting to change its logo?

50 Hottest Business Card Designs

Steve Jobs knows the importance of...

When Steve Jobs created NeXT, the new education computer company, he also realized and understood...

Yahoo! launches Yahoo! Local for Delhi...

Yahoo! India has launched Yahoo! Local (local.yahoo.in), a site which has local information for...

Apple iPhone 3G will be Available in India...

WWDC: Apple slashes prices with iPhone 3G,...

Good listen!

The song ‘Bandya’ from the Pakistani movie ‘Khuda Ke Liya’ is quite catchy....

Disney and Google Team Up on Virtual Disney...

Googling for my design studio!

Interesting. Wordpress reports that 8 queries of ‘sawan design studio’ led them to my...

designblotter: tipo.jpg (JPEG Image, 812x600 pixels)

Awwww... Zee does it again!

I really think that Zee Telefilms doesn’t know how to carry on their brand! I wrote about this...

ESPN and TataSky Tiff!

I thought Star Sports, Star Cricket and ESPN are owned by Star TV which has Sky as the parent brand...

“My alma mater is a university by its body but its soul is...”
— Saawan

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare...”
— Lao Tse (via vinh) (via...

Warner Bros Pictures to foray into animation...

My Humorous Snippets #1

What happens if a professor is bad at typing and spellings? The following is issued as a notice! We...

TOI group acquires UK's Virgin Radio for 53.2...

Google changes its favicon to lowercase...

It looked kinda odd when I started noticing the lowercase g as Google’s favicon in every other...

In UK, McD's and Barclays are most hated...

Opel to debut new logo

Facebook's Big Facelift

'Ada' seems promising.

A. R. Rahman’s second offering for the season, Ada, seems to be good. Giving it a try now!...

Going home!

Ok! After a loong time, I’m going home. So, no updates for the next few days.

Download Latest Hindi mp3's.

David Cook Wins American Idol 7

Finally, Cook became the winner between the two Davids! The finale will be telecast on Star World...

Next is What? Hilarious!

Impossible is nothing gelled well when Adidas jumbled the adage ‘Nothing is impossible’....

Richa Sharma to Launch Music Album.

Way to go, lady! She’s one of my favorite singers in Bollywood. I loved her voice from...

Finally! HDTV comes to India as NGC...

For so long I wondered why Samsung, Sony, LG and even Onida are coming up with new models of...

Music of 'Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na'...

Sweet…! I was waiting for this for so long. Download it here. 

“Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else -...”
— Raymond Radiguet

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
— Albert Einstein

Bypass the splash screens!

It’s very boring to see the same screens everytime we open a blogging or file sharing site...

No net at College from 2 days!

They’re installing 1mbps line and so there won’t be internet at college for the next few...

Aaaarggggghhhh....!!!

A guy acquired saawan.in and now he wants 1000 Sterling Pounds (approx. Rs. 80,000) to transfer it...

“Designers are meant to be loved NOT to be understood”
— Found on a website.

Saawan Design Studio is Back!

Nope. Not redesigned, yet! But the same site can be accessed at http://studio.saawan.info/

Viacom to launch an Indian channel, Colors,...

“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
— Coco Chanel

Apple Ties up with Vodafone to launch iPhone...

Lindsay Lohan to guest star in Ugly Betty!

“If you enjoy your work, creativity will appear.”
— Sergio

Completed!

Finally, finished doing logos for a non-profit organization, sent them the logos and waiting for the...

Max NewYork Life Ad - Touching!

I really loved this new ad for Max NewYork Life featuring a woman calling out for his husband...

Blog crosses 70,000 views!

My flagship blog will cross 70,000 views by today. I thank all my blog readers for this. Hoping to...

Releasing the suspension.

Here goes my newest post on my primary blog public again! Saawan Design Studio will be inaccessible...

Again changed Orkut Profile Image.

New Orkut profile image! Third change in a row. :)

“But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in...”
— Herman Melville

My Orkut Fortune for Today.

You will be fortunate in everything. Really? Thanks, Orkut, for pepping up my confidence :P I guess...

Comment on photos in Orkut.

I donno whether I noticed lately but there’s an option now in Orkut to add comments on...

Dew's back in KFC!

Ok.. My obsession with Mountain Dew seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. Yesterday, I gulped...

Veer's Visual Survey

http://www.veer.com/ideas/respond/My Score: 11/25 44% (40-59%)Smack in the middle of popular...

A Brief Suspension!

I’m suspending Saawan Design Studio website and the newest post on my blog for sometime for...

“In the modern world of business, it is useless to be...”
— David Ogilvy

Mars, Buffett buying Wrigley for $23 billion

Did the dew after a looong time!

It’s been a long time since I tasted my favorite drink - Mountain Dew. Though the ad campaigns...

“Life is not like university. There are no ‘areas of...”
— Found on a website.

25 MORE Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore...

Vishal Dadlani - Tashan Mein (Ft....

Though the movie isn’t as good but this song sounds good!

Download old and new hindi mp3s!

Poorly scripted Tashan!

All through the movie I wished I hadn’t come to watch it. At 2 and a half hours length, the...

Twenty20 'to conquer world sport'

Our department gets photography...

I know that it sounds a li’l bit weird when it’s understood that a design department...

Abuser.. Shoo.. Shoo!

There have been two comments on my blog which were posted by some abuser. He entered his name as...

“Don’t bail on your dream. The best gold is at the bottom of...”
— Randy Pausch

'Zara Sa' from Jannat

I really love this song! I guess I may play it for another 30 to 40 times on my iPod.

A thought on my characters!

I guess Tingle, Woo and my other characters seem to be aiming at kids! But the subject they deal...

“If you have to drag yourself to work every morning,...”
— Found on a website!

“Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can...”
— Apple’s Think Different...

Earth Day!

And that pretty much sums it up! Today’s Earth Day! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_day

I'm now available on Virb°

You may visit my profile by clicking here. Please add me if you’ve a Virb° account (or better...

Portraying Ranbir as a fool?

His debut movie was successful at this but Pepsi seems to be continuing it with its series of...

Photoshop Disasters

Watching Live IPL Webcast.

I’m no fan of cricket but these IPL matches are a li’l gripping with the teams hitting...

Reuters becomes Thomson Reuters, changes...

I like the new type for ‘Reuters’. The new identity has been created by Interbrand....

Useful Tip.

If you refresh a site and don’t see new content appear (like in Tumblr where the changes...

“Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the...”
— Alan Alda

Done with an assignment.

Finally! The college website assignment is done.

Godrej's IPL Ad.

Vodafone, Onida and Godrej have created new ads for the IPL (Indian Premier League) outta which I...

My new obsession: Glucon D!

he he he… It’s funny but true! The temperature is soaring here, in Chennai and...

“Whatever God wants to give, no one can deny; Whatever God...”
—  From someone’s...

Wordpress changes its favicon!

The new favicon for Wordpress sports a dirty blue color. The black favicon, I feel, was the best....

A. R. Rahman's Ballelakka from the movie...

I find the tune of this song good but that ‘Ballelakka’ thing is something I don’t...

The new TOI is very Chennai-centric

The newly launched ‘The Times of India’ in the city is being very Chennai-centric. The...

Finished the first part of a project!

Just finished the first part of a project for a client. The final logo has been sent in various...

Comments on a post

A recent post of mine on one of my blogs was supposed to be arrogant in tone. I get pissed off when...

Orkut applications now available!

Google has introduced the new applications for Orkut in India (and all through the world, probably)....

Website blues!

Gotta create a website for an assignment. Friday’s the deadline!

Imagine Identity

For all thos