What is a cognitive gym that you talk about? How essential is it in today’s times? What are instincts or genetic patterns if we may call them? What is the game that you are designing and why?
What is Cognitive Gym? (4 Anniversary episode)
Author: Kedar Nimkar
From Graphics to Textile
In one of your articles, you mentioned, The Legendary Paul Rand taught you, “form divorced from content has no value.” Can you please explain this philosophy in detail? How true is “form follows function” in graphic design and if yes, how can it be achieved? How then would we perceive the works of people like […]
Mumbai’s Transport design
We can’t start from the wheel but can you give us a brief history of transportation in Mumbai? Also, how are these transportation departments categorized? Local perception of commuters and as per government taxonomy? What is a general practice for building and designing a road? What is challenging about Mumbai being a cluster of islands? […]
Commitment to Kashmir
Real India is 60%+ villages. Can you give us a sense of the broad landscape of arts and crafts in our country? After working for more than 2 decades in this space, especially at Ranthambore, what are the insights you can share w.r.t crafts? Why is Kashmir so fertile when it comes to Crafts? What […]
Synthesis of standardization
What according to you is standardization? Where do you see it happening? Do you see it happening in Architecture? Do you see it happening in design at large? It is said, standardization and process bring scale – How true it is in design? How important is a scale for a developing country like us? Are […]
Travel Writing
What is different about travel writing? The way we have articles, opinions, factual documentation, etc…What sort of subsections do you have in travel writing? Are there any broad rules for them? For eg: Fiction can not have factual information etc…? I have heard this phrase called ego travel. What does it mean to you? In […]
Value centered design in Digital space
How big or small role does design play in today’s Indian startup ecosystem? You have spoken about the irrational user. Tell us more about it. How have you translated those learnings in your projects, at Google, yahoo, or even now in PhonePe? You speak about value-centered design. Can you tell us in detail what do […]
Designing temples
What is different about designing a sacred space? Are sacred places of worship built or they grow organically? Should such spaces be designed? Are sacred spaces like public spaces, or are they different? What is the relation between sacredness and architecture? Does specific kind of architectural forms and style have sacred quality? What is the […]
Painter of people
Most legendary musicians talk about having emptied the mind to reach a higher state of consciousness while performing (Bismillah Khan or Kumar Gandharva). Is this the same process while painting? A painter seems to be filled with thoughts, contradictions, and conflicts in the world. Your early works (70’s) were just the subject. Later on, you […]
Brands and brand building
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