Tag Archives: Design

Bernie’s Garb

By Dhiren | Published: May 19, 2009
Hats off to Bern for wearing this “put a smile on my morning face” t-shirt shown above.
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Navigation Navigaton

By Dhiren | Published: February 21, 2009
The SEO vs. Design vs. UE vs. Tech debates still carry on, however, I do learn some cool things as a result of them. A colleague of mine pointed out some good examples of user friendly navigation on two popular websites. Shown below are grabs from Ikea and Times-Online:
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Bragging design

By Dhiren | Published: February 16, 2009
Brag ‘n’ dare community website Bragster has a cool homepage feature, little translucent dialogue boxes that pop up to let visitors know about conversations happening inside. You can’t come in though, you have to become a member, very clever me thinks.
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Web Map

By Dhiren | Published: February 4, 2009
More Geek Chic from me, this time it comes in the form of this cool wallpaper designed by IA Japan. You can download it or order it as a poster for your office.
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3 Pretty cool examples of product design

By Dhiren | Published: December 27, 2008
What a hatchback! This Alpha Brera hands-down beats any of it’s equivalents in the market. Whilst people are oogling over the Audi A5, this older (2006) Alpha still beats it in the aesthetics dept. Arcoroc Pint Glasses, found these in the office. French made, such attention to detail and even the typeface used for the [...]
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Zazzling Zoom

By Dhiren | Published: November 30, 2008
I was surfing the web for t-shirts today, just looking and not buying. I want to print my own, there are so many Banksy tee’s available but no Binoy Varghese tee’s or any of the artists that I like. Anyway I stumbled upon Zazzle.Com, which at first looked like any other t-shirt website, however, after [...]
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Geometry, circles and things

By Dhiren | Published: November 24, 2008
Kapitza have just released a book of geometric art, I’m a big fan geometric/linear art and geometry because It takes me back to my childhood. When we were kids my Mum use to teach us how to draw all kinds of shapes and patterns using compasses, I know, I know most kids just used to [...]
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Cool Soap

By Dhiren | Published: November 23, 2008
I’m really liking the Malin+Goetz product packaging. It’s been around for quite some time, however, I like the way the type descends, gets smaller (in size and weight) and fades in colour. I’ve been a bit cheeky and copied this style for a few powerpoint presentations. It’s quite a cool way of showing how drawn [...]
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