An AI’s imagination of popular fonts as people — Fonts have always been seen through a lens of personification — be it their anatomy or their personality. So, I asked an AI artist to paint me portraits of some. The process was quite simple using Midjourney — “a proprietary artificial intelligence program that creates images from textual descriptions”. While…

A reflection on mapping Europe’s biggest cycling competition. — The Tour de France is the world’s most prestigious and most difficult bicycle race that attracts the world’s best riders. The race has been organised annually since 1903 except during the World Wars. The 109th edition of the Tour de France that started in Denmark on July 1, 2022. As…

Design it | IIM Lucknow — Highlights from my talk about design thinking processes and prototyping in product design at Inflection Point 2021, the Product Management Fest of Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. BizTech, IIM Lucknow on LinkedIn: #productmanagement #productdesign Greetings from Team BizTech! As a part of "Inflection Point", Product Management Festival of IIM Lucknow we present to…www.linkedin.com

Looking back at some of my important works and moments from 2020 — Well, here were are, at the end of a year or somewhere in an era of a pandemic. Time seemed to stand still as we tried to protect ourselves and our loved ones in what was perhaps one of the most difficult years some of us has seen in our…

Challenging myself to make visual patterns for word prompts — Every October, artists all over the world take on the Inktober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month. Stuck at home, amidst a pandemic, I did find myself some time in between projects and decided to give Inktober2020 a shot. I think the last time…

How we built a basic photographic camera in 10 days and froze the world around in time with our own lens — The concept of ‘time travel’ has always been an intriguing one for anyone, indeed. What if we could travel back or forth in time and space? How would we attempt to understand and define the context in that time and space? …

Understanding how a dramaturgical construct is possible through design — The conventional understanding of the term dramaturgy is coming from the practice and theory of dramatic composition of a performance language which is often textually written by a dramaturge for a devised performance process. The term scenography has been used to articulate the overall visual language of a performative event…

Create custom map themes instantly from photographs that fit your brand’s visual style — Remember the last time when you had to place a screenshot of a map in your presentation or brochure or embed one in your website and you simply couldn’t get it to match your visual styles (read colours and fonts)? Let me guess, it looked something like this — Well…