I am really thankful to WordPress for having Weekly Photo Challenges, because this is main source of my lovely people in the network, interaction with them! For one the post in this week’s photo challenge I received “TOP POST ON INDIBLOGGER”. And that post was a photograph of Rangoli made on Independence Day synced with National Anthem. The post can be viewed here. I am not sure about the criteria for this, but may be speedy promotions of the post in a day will have this honour. Thanks all of you for encouragement and growing my reach!
In response to Blogging the Senses I would love to have Sight of the place that my fellow blogger posted about.
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Its post to the response to Jennifer’s One Word Photo Challenge
Source: One Word Photo Challenge: Bench
T20 cricket is becoming more popular day by day due to thrillers involved in the format of the game. World Cup 2016 is being hosted by India. The excitement in the tournament is increasing as semi finals will be starting on 30th March 2016. With this as opportunity, would love to post the logo designs of the event and also all the former versions till 2007.
Two of the versions, 2014 and 2012 were designed by Australian company WiteKite. They have specialty for designing event and sports worldwide. Every logo is having standard format of presentation. Tournament name, Hosting country and Year is put at the bottom of the logo. Every logo has ball depicted from the number “0”.
Twenty20 World Cup 2016 Logo
Twenty20 World Cup 2014 Logo
The logo uses the colours of the Bangladesh flag with splashes of blue which represents Bangladesh’s iconic waterways (as well as being the ICC’s own colour). The T is made up of cricket stumps and the 0 in the T20 represents the cricket ball complete with Bangladeshi green seam while the white in the design lends an energetic, friendly and youthful feel to the logo. (Source: Yahoo News)
Twenty20 World Cup 2012 Logo
The event logo also called as Modern Spin. Designed by Australian creative firm Witekite, the logo incorporates and amalgamates the rounded look of the Sinhalese Script. The letter “T” forms a player which leads into the “2” while the “0” incorporates a cricket ball. The colours of the logo, with strong reds and oranges, are seen in both nature and Sri Lankan culture and arts, with their presence in the logo giving them a cricket “spin”. It has a natural sense of movement due to its fluid lines and forward angles. (Source:blackcaps.co.nz)
Twenty20 World Cup 2010 Logo
Twenty20 World Cup 2009 Logo
Twenty20 World Cup 2007 Logo
Half-Light, Posting another poem by Rabindranath Tagore and that is National Anthem of India Jana-Gana-Mana. This Rangoli is made on the eve of Independence Day 2015. The words above represent Vande Mataram meaning Salute to Motherland. Vande Mataram is also a national song of India written Continue reading “Jan Gan Man – Rabindranath Tagore”
Half-Light Interesting challenge this time! I had never posted a poem on this blog. This is golden opportunity to post some of the poetry. I don’t have that talent in me hence posting Rabindranath Tagore’s Poem on Stray birds. At least I have many stray birds for this! For more birds photography visit Photolia.
Stray Birds -Rabindranath
Continue reading “Stray Birds – Poetry by Rabindranath Tagore”
Thank you all for reading and pouring love onto this blog! Its always encouraging!
Reblog
Informative post from my fellow Blogger Celena on her blog Lost Civilizations
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(Note: I spent my entire commute home thinking of a title for this post and I’m super proud of what I came up with, okay. Except it turns out a lot of people have thought of this punny phrase…
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Dance with spirals in Rangoli Designs, Vibrancy of the Sun, Rays of Hope and Shadow!
Dance with the tunes of shadow that always follow you! Here you follow the shadow!
Indian Post Logo
One more examples of classical logos of India is Indian Post Logo. Indian Post is the largest postal network of the World. It was year 1993 when legendary designer R.K. Joshi was at teaching at IDC, IIT Bombay, he designed the logo of Indian Post. The logo was launched on India Post Day, October 9 that year. The philosophy behind the logo is explained here.
Meaning of Indian Post Logo
It represented speedy action and dynamism. The logo also shows the skill and good sense of aesthetics in form of an appealing asymmetric balance in the form. The form is an envelope, the straight parallel lines with sharp angular ends represent the speed with which the postal India services transfers posts across the length and breadth of India. The colour Red signifies the depth of its reach in India. Red adds extra prominence to the speed concept of postal services for which the logo stands for.(Source: D’source, IIT Bombay)
Indian Post Gets New Logo
Later in year 2008, Ministry of Communications and IT, launched a new corporate identity of Indian Post working with a design agency, Oglivy and Mather. The new Indian Post Logo is inspired by the fact that Indian Post carries emotion across physical distance. At first glance, it is an envelope and at the next glance, it is a bird in flight, unhindered and unrestricted. The following bold strokes convey free flight. The new logo kept the red colour because of its longer association with Indian post. Press Information Bureau website has elaborated explanation about the design philosophy behind the new logo design.
Meaning of New Indian Post Logo
The choices of colours are Red and Yellow. Red has been chosen for its traditional association with the Postal Service. It embodies passion, power and commitment. Yellow communicates hope, joy and happiness. Evidence of the combination of the two colours is found across the country.
It is the recognition of this stellar service in a changed world that has prompted the refurbishment of the India Post Logo. The first insight that was brought on board was the evolution of design, which has become increasingly organic. This is a departure from straight lines, which the current logo is dominated by. There is an element of modernity that the refurbishment aims at. At the same time, there is a conscious effort to maintain an element of continuity. The ‘wings’ are the anchoring element that have been retained. (Source: PIB Press release)
Read more: Biography and Works of Mr. R. K. Joshi
Dance of branches of trees with tones of Sunset colours! Happy Holi with these colours!
Save water and play water less Holi
Dance on the tunes of rays of hope, always inclined up and up, on the grid of time (life)!
d posted earlier on Mastheads of leading Indian Newspapers, Australian Newspapers. For my network of lovely people from UK, for the visual treat, adding mastheads of top ranked newspapers in United Kingdom.
A nameplate of publication is a designed title as it appears on the front page or cover. The term name plate is mainly used in America. It is also called as Masthead in the United Kingdom and many other Commonwealth Nations. In lay man’s terms it is also called as logos of newspapers.
The Sun
Daily Mail
Metro
Evening Standard
Daily Mirror
Daily Telegraph
Daily Star
Daily Express
The Times
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Dance to the tunes of Spirals! Rangoli to welcome of Dindi from Sant Tukaram Palakhi.
Warli Art
Hand Lettering Suswagatam
Rangoli of Lamps
Flower Rangoli
One Love for the Indian Traditional Art- Rangoli, One Love Tribal art Warli and One Love for Hand Lettering Devnagari (Marathi). Lovely week of photo challenge! Thanks for likes! Photographs for this one love are from the first birthday of my lovely daughter Venu.
One Love for the Indian Traditional Art- Rangoli. This is from the 19 different types of Rangoli gifted by my sister to my daughter, Venu on her first birthday. Will post these different types of Rangoli some day. This gift has flower Rangoli, flour Rangoli, wood Rangoli, Rangoli on Water, Rangoli below Water, Rangoli from Bangles and many more. My sister really enjoyed making all of these Rangoli.
Film and Television Institute of India -FTII Logo
National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, has given many classic logos to the Nation. One of the designers from NID, S.M. Shah designed the logo of FTII. Mr. Shah is from the third batch of Communication Design, 1967. It is the premier institute of film and television institute bringing together the training in film and television. FTII located in Pune, is serving as a center of excellence across the world. The logo is being used for more than 4 decades.
Art and Design in FTII Logo
The logo presents the simple letter form in Devnagari. The angular stroke to the turn and the vertical stem of the letter connotes the impression of a rolled film strip. The angular stroke is repeated on the top right end of the Shiro-Rekha to provide visual balance to the composed letter form (Source: D’source, IIT Bombay)
I love this type of logos due to elegance of strokes of Devnagari Calligraphy and bonding of Art and Design. For more details on Mr. S. M . Shah.
One Love for the Indian Traditional Art- Rangoli. This is from the 19 different types of Rangoli gifted by my sister to my daughter, Venu on her first birthday. Will post these different types of Rangoli some day. This gift has flower Rangoli, flour Rangoli, wood Rangoli, Rangoli on Water, Rangoli below Water, Rangoli from Bangles and many more. My sister really enjoyed making all of these Rangoli.
One Love from the Indian Tribal Art- Warli. This has been demonstrated by Adivasi since ages. Noe it is quite popular and emerged as one of the forms of art. Artists like Jivya Mashe (Written about him in separate post: Jivya Mashe-Indian Warli Art) really took this art form of Warli to the world and at next level through his many national and international exhibitions. We tried this on 6 feet x 18 feet white clothe for a backdrop during the first birthday of my daughter Venu. Dung is applied on the clothe and then by using white colours the composition is illustrated. Me and my brother enjoyed while making this! This interesting method of preparing Warli is explained on D’source, IIT Bombay Website.
One Love to welcome all irrespective of language, race, community, country. They all who love the elegance of the strokes in letters from Marathi Calligraphy are welcome! For further on Hand Lettering visit the Portfolio Page.
Forgot to reblog on International Women’s Day
Friends, on this Women’s Day am happy to share this post received on email from a friend. Its a tribute to all the wonderful women who gave us these inventions which are so useful in our daily lives. Each of these inventions is a gem but I must eternally be thankful and be grateful to the Mesopotamian women who gave us all the the gift of Beer 🙂
(I am also grateful to the folks who have shared these lovely accompanying pics below, dont know them so cant acknowledge )
INVENTIONS / CREATIONS BY WOMEN
1. The Car Heater
We all owe our thanks to Margaret A Wilcox who invented the car heater in 1893!
(Margaret also invented a combined clothes and dishwasher)2. Monopoly
(Margaret also invented a combined clothes and dishwasher)2. Monopoly
This popular board game was designed by Elizabeth Magie in 1904, originally called the Landlord’s Game. The purpose of this game was to expose the…
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On the eve of International Women’s Day from BALASUBRAMANIAM
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Today is International Women’s Day. Women have a way of bringing new nuances to whatever they do. It’s the same in Design. Women designers have brought such richness to the profession i…
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Harmony photographs mostly fromSant Dnyaneshwar Maharaj Palakhi Sohala and JagatGuru Tukaram Maharaj Palakhi Rath, Pune. Also featured Workshop on How to Make Ganesha From Clay for kids.
Harmony in School participating in Sant Dnyaneshwar Maharaj Palakhi Sohala, Pune
Aadhar Logo Design
You may be curious about who designed Aadhar Logo, the answer is here. Graduate of Applied Art faculty from Nagpur University Mr. Atul S Pande won the national logo competition held by Government of India in 2010 and India got Aadhar logo. Project UIDAI initiated to issue Unique Identification Number to every Indian Resident. Logo depicts the Sun and Fingerprint. It symbolically depicts a dawn of new identity of every individual, endowed with a unique number for each individual.
Philosophy of Aadhar Logo in his own words,
“Idea about using red and deep yellow is very direct and simple. Both are bright and vibrant colours, which deliver freshness and evoke enthusiasm. One should feel fresh and a bit excited while watching it. Significance of deep yellow is for gaining knowledge and red signifies community involvement.”
“I had to create something which is easily recognizable. Any rural person would be able to easily recognise the sun and the fingerprint.”
For more on Atul S. Pande, logo designer of Aadhar and his work in the field of Design you can visit his Behance profile.
Harmony in Sant Dnyaneshwar Maharaj Palakhi Sohala, Alandi, Pune
Harmony coming from different tiny hands of kids to make ONE Ganesha. One of the shots from Workshop on “How to Make Ganesha From Clay” in the Ganesha Festival 2015.
Harmony in exercises students of military training school.
Greetings on this International Women’s Day to all my fellow Bloggers! Logo for Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Campaign in India. Meanings of the lines Save Girl Educate Girl. My feelings about the day are, Respect Women, they are magical creations of this World! This is also a contribution to AIGA 100 years of Design. Can be viewed on AIGA Website.
Harmony in Saffron welcome JagatGuru Tukaram Maharaj Palakhi Rath, Pune
This is a an opportunity to say thanks to all my readers for the love!
Low Poly Art dedicated to cricket great and fighter of the life, Martin Crowe!
State of Mind – Different photographs different states of mind. Immense power of Mind. Sometimes sentimental, slippery like water gel beads! Sometimes enlightened, depicted by Dhwaj- Flag on the Temple! Sometimes ignited like a torch! Very few times disciplined, struggling for everyday! And sometimes creative like a Child. Asking for the Childhood back! In Marathi there is song Lahanpan Dega Deva- God, Please take me back in Childhood!
State of Mind – Disciplined, Can we bring that Discipline in our work and daily life?
Trade Fair Authority of India
In 1974, logo of Trade Fair Authority of India then was designed by Benoy Sarkar, alumni of National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. Trade Fair Authority of India is now named as India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO). Mr. Sarkar was blessed with teachings from legendary graphic designers like Paul Rand at Yale University while doing his masters.
The logo has an interesting depiction of letters T and F. The tone is a fusion of preservation of traditions of trade and investments along with modern identity of ITPO. The logo has a universal form. It signifies an authority of India exercising trade through fairs and exhibitions in India and abroad. (Source: D’source, IIT Bombay)
For more details find Biography and work of Mr. Benoy Sarkar.
State of Mind – Creative, Lahanpan Dega Deva- God, Please take me back in Childhood!
State of Mind – Ignited, Mashal (Torch)!
State of Mind – Enlightened, Dhwaj- Flag on the Temple!
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