Having an approximation of fun (literally) at the class’s expense, during the T2 course, NID-Av.

Lightly edited brush-strokes and largely untouched pencil-strokes awash in gradients. Using the tablet on the lap like a much lighter fruit-branded device is an easier way to deal with wide strokes. The fans (and the temperamental device drivers) get in the way and stink of a generously sized BuyersRemorse beast lurking between the almost nonexistent foldout legs.

The two Ts are less than nice to look at but whatever, for now.

Cropped from a composition in reverence to Chip Kidd’s cover for The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.

Part generative art, part pen-tablet exercise. The Pencil tool (N) is a much more appropriate bezier-starter (than the Brush tool, B) when tweaked well. The Brush picks up annoying stroke thicknesses by default.

From October January 2014; I’d just left Gurgaon.

Process: Publication Design for Print is an overview of the print-publication-design process, condensed and appended with a tiny resources list mapped to the stages in the (publication-design-for-print) process. Please download a copy (PDF) from here, and let me know what needs to be improved and added and redacted and written over and edited for clarity, before I commit to print some copies.

This started life as a scribbled-on-an-A4-sheet diagram sent to a senior graphic designer a long-ish way northeast of the border seeking help with a print design project. The poster (if/when printed) measures A3 and is meant to be a two-colour screen printed affair (when printed, in PMS 805 C and black). It is somewhat self aware and the jokes are pointless and annoying as are expected. The rest is by no stretch of my rubbery imagination meant to be the final word on how things ought to be done. If you are a not-so-frequent designer of publications, this is a nice-to-have-by-the-softboard sheet of paper. If you aren’t, this may come in handy when you need to pretend to be one.

Up-hoot 1: Thanks to Miss. AB (product designer), I’ve fixed some stuff so the version up for download now is V1.2. Blame her for the updated post-title, some jokes being more elaborate, some diagrams finally making sense in context, etc. The image above remains that of the old version, since faking it all with a 3D render takes time, etc.