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Made this long ago… was waiting for the right opportunity to post it.

Indian - Let that be your religion.

Also, my friend Mayank Raheja asked me a long time ago to post a poem that he wrote. I think now is the right time for that too -

Come my India, come fly with me
as the economy rises and the uneasiness of the limitations goes away
i sit in the middle of the crowd
with my head held up high
within the constant chattering of hopeful souls
people just like you and me
with cryptic lives and curious minds
who analyse and interpret what the future has to offer
this new India of my dreams
where man meets the machine
i can see you rising above the clouds
of every sector man has found

so come my India come fly with me
towards my dream and my beautiful dream
Come my India, come fly with me

Mayank Narindra Raheja
(Love you always my India)

Organized a treasure hunt at office yesterday.

It was great fun organizing it with friends. The entire team was all over the office premises. We also managed to damage some office property (oops).

The first clue given to people was like a “scratch and win” lottery ticket (click here for source of inspiration). All the clues were poetic.

Some pics -

Special thanks to Shiladitya Bose, Ankit Gupta and Vinay Nahata for helping with the organization.

It finally arrived today! After quite a bit of hardwork - the effort seems to have paid off. I now feel kinda sad that I have to give this away. This is the 3rd time I have wanted to hold onto a design.

The Poster:

The first frame shows the famous Penrose Triangle. The triangle is impossible to construct in 3D (don’t be mislead by the mathematical mumbojumbo on that Wikipedia link… 3-Manifolds… bah!). The triangle represents ‘impossibility’.

In the second frame, the triangle disappears, leaving an impression of the Adobe logo in the red background. The second frame reads “CoreTech makes Adobe possible”.

Now - I know, you must be wondering - how the hell does a printed poster display an animation? The answer: Lenticular Printing!!

Lenticular Printing:

Do you remember those rulers and sharpners we had as kids? They used to show a single image at one angle; and as you moved your eyes to a different angle - the image flipped continuously. Some “3D” stamps also used this technique to give an impression of depth (if you were into philately). That’s lenticular printing for you. Using lenticular prints, we can actually display two images in a single poster and use it to show motion, transition or like in this case - two starkly contrasting ideas.

The End Result:

I have a friend from my college days - Mathew Varghese. He is quite tall. Often, he finds that things were not built keeping tall people in mind - they’re more suited for average dimensions.

Read through the following examples to give you an idea of what life was like for Mathew -

1. Mathew could never be seated comfortably in one of the standard college benches. It guess it was most tormenting during exams when he had to sit through the entire duration of the paper.
2. Drinking water was available at the water coolers in the college basement. The glasses at the water coolers were tethered by steel chains. Now - the chain obviously wasn’t long enough to let the glass reach Mathew’s mouth. He used to drink water as if he were proposing - on one knee and all.
3. Just Baked - A much loved eatery in Pune had an upper floor with a really low ceiling. Since the seating was all in the upper floor, Mathew had no choice but to bend and walk.
4. Mathew needed all the space on his motorbike. The entire length of the seat was used up. No space for pillion rider.
5. Most girls in the college were lilliputian in comparison.
6. Mathew had a huge shoe size. He had to hunt for his shoe size like a mad man.

I’ve collected those funny and awkward situations and put them together in form of this piece right below…If you look - you can also see his name in there (not on the top).

Now we can all imagine what Gulliver felt like! (Click the image twice to see it full size).

Designed the team mugs at work. Please leave your comments -

Ambigrams were invented by John Langdon (Langdon & ambigrams… do those names ring a bell? They should! The ambigrams used by Dan Brown in Angels & Demons were crafted by John Langdon - and Brown named his protagonist Robert Langdon as a homage). You can visit his website here.

Looking at the stuff at the website, I got an itch… I just wanted to try my hand at making an Ambigram. The results are below -

Not bad, eh?

This is sketch of Lord Ganesh that I created using pencils.

Cooked something up today… Posting it for all to see.

Maybe I should stop using textured paper… This looks better at a distance - when the texture of the paper is not visible.

Here is my charcoal sketch of Buddha…

It was the first time I tried charcoal. Really love it - especially when you use your fingers. Its almost like you are modeling with clay - 2D clay on paper. Also, you can use your fingers to soften any hard features you may introduced.

Anyone interested in purchasing this for their living room? I already have an offer for Rs 1500/- [:D]

I will be posting more of my works soon. Keep checking back often.