Massimo Vignelli,s map
Massimo Vignelli explains his 1972 NYC Subway Map. (Quicktime, 4 minutes) http://www.helveticafilm.com/vignellimap.html
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Craft your Soul
Poster for you all. The above products were created in "Craft and Postmodernism" elective, 2003.
Virtual vs Real
I have often encountered this peculiar situation when the final design looks very different from what was imagined. Most of the design process is imagining a concept. Ideas in mind are sketched, drawn, detailed,prototyped, colored etc and later produced. When the concept is produced you see the real. For me at-least, the real needs a lot of work quite different from how you had imagined about the concept. Designers often live in the world of conceptions and forget to see the real, physical form. I have heard graphic designers failing badly while creating symbols, symbols start looking like something else and dangerously change meaning. Architect often dream about great spaces and end up creating clumsy corridors. One of my famous teacher architect once contemplated that the space he created was like the outer 'Prakara' of the chidambaram temple but for me it looked grossly like a simple huge space with no feeling of any sort of wall what so ever. I have seen Product Designers s...
Craft Education
Craft Education should be just like our traditional classical music learning. Sa- Vertical strips Re- Horzontal Ga - Simple mat Ma - Diagonal Pa - Diagonal mat dha - lock ni - edge lock sa - bowl Kalyan that - Naga bowls Pooriya that - Manipur weaves In conversation with Rao. :)