Archive for May, 2009

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Pen Drawings As Warm Up

May 31, 2009 @ 11:48 pm by Samir Bharadwaj  

I haven’t drawn in ages. Let me clarify. It’s not like I haven’t drawn anything recently, I draw doodles and thumbnails of things all the time. I’m a designer and a lot of my ideas come out in tiny visual sketches. But those are all documentary and explanatory drawings. I haven’t sat down and sketched [...]


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Personal Business Cards I’ve Designed Over the Years

May 22, 2009 @ 4:33 pm by Samir Bharadwaj  

A good personal business card or visiting card is an invaluable thing to have. If your a designer, writer or independent weirdo of any sort, I’d say it’s absolutely essential. Whether you like it or not, telling most people you’re a freelance anything is tantamount to telling them you are jobless and destitute. The number [...]


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Being Nice Shouldn’t Be Worth Your While

May 18, 2009 @ 2:55 am by Samir Bharadwaj  

Since when did everyone expect to get paid to be nice and do the right thing? Look around you, it’s happening as we speak. It’s not new, of course, it’s been going on a for a while. Right from the beginning of time, religion has been promising you good karma, a luxurious after-life with an [...]


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Flight or Fight or Creativity

May 8, 2009 @ 11:21 pm by Samir Bharadwaj  

The whole world is out to get you. All the signs are there. You never get a lucky break. People always treat you like dirt. And the few people who are nice? They’re after something, obviously. Everyone else is on a life-long personal vendetta to make your existence slightly more unpleasant: the people at the [...]


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