2008
Jul
‘Loving someone means taking the risk that they might fuck...
— Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother...
Jul 23rd
Philips updates its wordmark! via BrandNew
Jul 21st
Bad Designer Tee's
Love these designs. They make fun of bad designs or bad designers.:D via bdthreads
Jul 20th
szymon: Chocolator Chocolate Calculator
Jul 18th
What's a logo worth?
Jul 15th
Sweet Content (Packaging) via DieLine
Jul 15th
Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing...
— William Arthur Ward (via...
Jul 15th
Bought Ben Caldwell's Dracula and Tom...
I wasn’t expecting to see Ben Caldwell’s classics in Odyssey Book Store y’day but...
Jul 14th
Watched KungFu Panda Yesterday
Great comedy and good animation. I loved the movie and Jack Black rocked as Po, the Panda.
Jul 14th
Intrigue Logo is Featured in LogoPond...
This is the second gallery addition for my logos. Click here to view the logo on my blog.
Jul 13th
A. R. Rahman's Sakkarakatti Audio
Hmmm… apart from Marudhaani that is a usual Rahman fare the soundtrack sounds a li’l...
Jul 13th
Motivation is the urge to seek positive feedback....
— Scott H Young (via...
Jul 11th
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an...
— Pierre Bonnard
Jul 11th
Participatory Advertising for Chevy...
A billboard in London posted by Chevrolet created quite a scene recently. The billboard featured A...
Jul 11th
CNET revamps its Logo
(via BrandNew)
Jul 11th
Listen
Loving the song ‘Khuda Jaane’ from the movie ‘Bachna Ae Haseeno’. Music by...
Jul 9th
jwphillips: (via)
Jul 9th
Typography Workshop
Jul 8th
People Magazine Launches India Edition.
The famous hollywood gossip magazine ‘People’ is brought to India by Outlook group. It...
Jul 8th
It has been said that nearly all of our worries and...
— Dale Carnegie (via...
Jul 7th
radard: travors.com
Jul 7th
My Illustration is added to IllyPads...
My Namaste illustration is added to the gallery of illyPads today! illyPads is a sister site of...
Jul 6th
Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as...
— Lillian Hellman (via...
Jul 5th
via Original Linkage
Jul 4th
implodr: This is what the world would look like without...
Jul 4th
New Tumblr Theme
I switched to using a new Tumblr theme named Vertigo designed by Matthew Buchanan inspired by the...
Jul 3rd
My Logo Got Selected for 'Logo From...
My ‘Catapult’ logo is selected for display on the site Logo From Dreams. Grreat! :) I...
Jul 3rd
Has Bajaj Copied Volkswagen Logo?
Interesting read from a blog. And that’s Volkswagen’s logo flipped 90 degees! via BOB,...
Jul 2nd
I didn’t get into design to be an artist. To me, an...
— Mike Davidson
Jul 2nd
Udhaya by A. R. Rahman.
Heard this song while paying bill at ‘More.’ (supermarket) Current favorite Tamil song....
Jul 1st
Designer of Air India's logo.
Mr. Arnab Roy designed this and posted on his Flickr account. The picture above shows how the old...
Jul 1st
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (via...
Jul 1st
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...
Jul 1st
Walmart unveils its new logo.
Strangely, the curves are limited to the capital W and the small a’s. This is the first time...
Jul 1st
Jun
Logo for AlGore's Campaign
It reads as both We and Me. The logo has been designed by Collins. The campaign says “You...
Jun 28th
Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly...
— Jeffery Veen
Jun 28th
Watch
Disney’s Bolt. Starring the voice talents of John Travolta and Miley Cyrus.
Jun 28th
Branding in four Indian Airports
I wrote about this on one of my blogs. These are pictures (taken from afaqs) that show branding in...
Jun 28th
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest...
— Anonymous (via onherway) (via...
Jun 28th
Tumblr Design Update!
I tweaked settings in Tumblr theme and revved up the look and feel of my micro blog! Hope you like...
Jun 26th
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than...
— J.k. Rowling (via onherway) I...
Jun 26th
The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean,...
— George Carlin (via...
Jun 26th
36 beautiful business cards
Jun 26th
I was surprised!
I was going through this link that has some great images that have 3D typography and suddenly my...
Jun 26th
Heroes Season 3 Set Photos
Jun 24th
Obama unveils new logo design for his...
Jun 24th
VH1 India Revamps
The international music and lifestyle channel from Viacom recently went for a makeover. The graphics...
Jun 20th
Wall of tiles at the end of the Design Street at NID with a...
Jun 17th
Is Yahoo! experimenting to change its logo?
Jun 16th
50 Hottest Business Card Designs
Jun 11th
Steve Jobs knows the importance of...
When Steve Jobs created NeXT, the new education computer company, he also realized and understood...
Jun 11th
Yahoo! launches Yahoo! Local for Delhi...
Yahoo! India has launched Yahoo! Local (local.yahoo.in), a site which has local information for...
Jun 11th
Apple iPhone 3G will be Available in India...
Jun 11th
WWDC: Apple slashes prices with iPhone 3G,...
Jun 10th
Good listen!
The song ‘Bandya’ from the Pakistani movie ‘Khuda Ke Liya’ is quite catchy....
Jun 9th
Disney and Google Team Up on Virtual Disney...
Jun 7th
Googling for my design studio!
Interesting. Wordpress reports that 8 queries of ‘sawan design studio’ led them to my...
Jun 6th
designblotter: tipo.jpg (JPEG Image, 812x600 pixels)
Jun 6th
Awwww... Zee does it again!
I really think that Zee Telefilms doesn’t know how to carry on their brand! I wrote about this...
Jun 6th
ESPN and TataSky Tiff!
I thought Star Sports, Star Cricket and ESPN are owned by Star TV which has Sky as the parent brand...
Jun 6th
My alma mater is a university by its body but its soul is...
— Saawan
Jun 6th
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare...
— Lao Tse (via vinh) (via...
Jun 6th
Warner Bros Pictures to foray into animation...
Jun 2nd
My Humorous Snippets #1
What happens if a professor is bad at typing and spellings? The following is issued as a notice! We...
Jun 2nd
TOI group acquires UK's Virgin Radio for 53.2...
Jun 1st
May
Google changes its favicon to lowercase...
It looked kinda odd when I started noticing the lowercase g as Google’s favicon in every other...
May 31st
In UK, McD's and Barclays are most hated...
May 30th
Opel to debut new logo
May 30th
Facebook's Big Facelift
May 30th
'Ada' seems promising.
A. R. Rahman’s second offering for the season, Ada, seems to be good. Giving it a try now!...
May 23rd
Going home!
Ok! After a loong time, I’m going home. So, no updates for the next few days.
May 23rd
Download Latest Hindi mp3's.
May 23rd
Watch
8:58 min Winning moment of David Cook and ‘Time Of My Life’ performance.
May 22nd
David Cook Wins American Idol 7
Finally, Cook became the winner between the two Davids! The finale will be telecast on Star World...
May 22nd
Watch
Big Flix Ad! Hilarious..! The OSO parody is just sidesplitting.
May 22nd
Next is What? Hilarious!
Impossible is nothing gelled well when Adidas jumbled the adage ‘Nothing is impossible’....
May 21st
Richa Sharma to Launch Music Album.
Way to go, lady! She’s one of my favorite singers in Bollywood. I loved her voice from...
May 21st
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...
May 21st
Music of 'Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na'...
Sweet…! I was waiting for this for so long. Download it here.
May 20th
Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else -...
— Raymond Radiguet
May 19th
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
May 14th
Bypass the splash screens!
It’s very boring to see the same screens everytime we open a blogging or file sharing site...
May 13th
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...
May 13th
Aaaarggggghhhh....!!!
A guy acquired saawan.in and now he wants 1000 Sterling Pounds (approx. Rs. 80,000) to transfer it...
May 13th
Designers are meant to be loved NOT to be understood
— Found on a website.
May 10th
Saawan Design Studio is Back!
Nope. Not redesigned, yet! But the same site can be accessed at http://studio.saawan.info/
May 9th
Viacom to launch an Indian channel, Colors,...
May 8th
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
— Coco Chanel
May 8th
Apple Ties up with Vodafone to launch iPhone...
May 8th
Lindsay Lohan to guest star in Ugly Betty!
May 7th
If you enjoy your work, creativity will appear.
— Sergio
May 6th
Completed!
Finally, finished doing logos for a non-profit organization, sent them the logos and waiting for the...
May 5th
Watch
Coke’s take on Pepsi through the recent Sprite ad made Pepsi make a direct spoof on...
May 4th
Max NewYork Life Ad - Touching!
I really loved this new ad for Max NewYork Life featuring a woman calling out for his husband...
May 3rd
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...
May 2nd
Releasing the suspension.
Here goes my newest post on my primary blog public again! Saawan Design Studio will be inaccessible...
May 2nd
Again changed Orkut Profile Image.
New Orkut profile image! Third change in a row. :)
May 2nd
But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in...
— Herman Melville
May 2nd
My Orkut Fortune for Today.
You will be fortunate in everything. Really? Thanks, Orkut, for pepping up my confidence :P I guess...
May 2nd
Comment on photos in Orkut.
I donno whether I noticed lately but there’s an option now in Orkut to add comments on...
May 2nd
Dew's back in KFC!
Ok.. My obsession with Mountain Dew seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. Yesterday, I gulped...
May 2nd
Apr
Veer's Visual Survey
http://www.veer.com/ideas/respond/My Score: 11/25 44% (40-59%)Smack in the middle of popular...
Apr 30th
A Brief Suspension!
I’m suspending Saawan Design Studio website and the newest post on my blog for sometime for...
Apr 29th
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be...
— David Ogilvy
Apr 29th
Mars, Buffett buying Wrigley for $23 billion
Apr 29th
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...
Apr 29th
Life is not like university. There are no ‘areas of...
— Found on a website.
Apr 29th
25 MORE Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore...
Apr 29th
Vishal Dadlani - Tashan Mein (Ft....
Though the movie isn’t as good but this song sounds good!
Apr 28th
Download old and new hindi mp3s!
Apr 27th
Poorly scripted Tashan!
All through the movie I wished I hadn’t come to watch it. At 2 and a half hours length, the...
Apr 27th
Twenty20 'to conquer world sport'
Apr 25th
Our department gets photography...
I know that it sounds a li’l bit weird when it’s understood that a design department...
Apr 24th
Abuser.. Shoo.. Shoo!
There have been two comments on my blog which were posted by some abuser. He entered his name as...
Apr 24th
Don’t bail on your dream. The best gold is at the bottom of...
— Randy Pausch
Apr 24th
'Zara Sa' from Jannat
I really love this song! I guess I may play it for another 30 to 40 times on my iPod.
Apr 23rd
Watch
After Desi SpiderMan, this seems to be Virgin Comics new flop idea! Sachin and Super-hero? :D...
Apr 23rd
Watch
BeySharmYudh! The ad for the Indian Premier League is ripped off from a five-year-old promo for a...
Apr 23rd
A thought on my characters!
I guess Tingle, Woo and my other characters seem to be aiming at kids! But the subject they deal...
Apr 23rd
If you have to drag yourself to work every morning,...
— Found on a website!
Apr 23rd
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can...
— Apple’s Think Different...
Apr 22nd
Earth Day!
And that pretty much sums it up! Today’s Earth Day! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_day
Apr 22nd
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...
Apr 21st
Portraying Ranbir as a fool?
His debut movie was successful at this but Pepsi seems to be continuing it with its series of...
Apr 20th
Photoshop Disasters
Apr 20th
Watching Live IPL Webcast.
I’m no fan of cricket but these IPL matches are a li’l gripping with the teams hitting...
Apr 19th
Reuters becomes Thomson Reuters, changes...
I like the new type for ‘Reuters’. The new identity has been created by Interbrand....
Apr 19th
Useful Tip.
If you refresh a site and don’t see new content appear (like in Tumblr where the changes...
Apr 19th
Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the...
— Alan Alda
Apr 19th
Done with an assignment.
Finally! The college website assignment is done.
Apr 19th
Godrej's IPL Ad.
Vodafone, Onida and Godrej have created new ads for the IPL (Indian Premier League) outta which I...
Apr 19th
My new obsession: Glucon D!
he he he… It’s funny but true! The temperature is soaring here, in Chennai and...
Apr 18th
Whatever God wants to give, no one can deny; Whatever God...
— From someone’s...
Apr 18th
Wordpress changes its favicon!
The new favicon for Wordpress sports a dirty blue color. The black favicon, I feel, was the best....
Apr 18th
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...
Apr 18th
The new TOI is very Chennai-centric
The newly launched ‘The Times of India’ in the city is being very Chennai-centric. The...
Apr 18th
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...
Apr 18th
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...
Apr 17th
Orkut applications now available!
Google has introduced the new applications for Orkut in India (and all through the world, probably)....
Apr 17th
Website blues!
Gotta create a website for an assignment. Friday’s the deadline!
Apr 16th
Imagine Identity
For all thos