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Chatty Digital Portfolios for the Creative Animal

Chatty Digital Portfolios for the Creative Animal

People have been paying me to design things for over a decade now. During the first few years of this adventure, I visited clients with my printed portfolio in hand, my book, as the people in advertising would call it. As design work diversified beyond print, and computers and the internet became ubiquitous in every […]

Posted on March 9, 2010January 28, 2014 by Samir Bharadwaj

Personal Business Cards I’ve Designed Over the Years

Personal Business Cards I've Designed Over the Years

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 […]

Posted on May 22, 2009June 6, 2010 by Samir Bharadwaj

New Folder Icons in the New Blender 3D

New Folder Icons in the New Blender 3D

Not just folder icons but file icons as well. A new release of Blender is always special to all fans and users of this open source 3D software, me included, but this release has an extra incentive for me to be excited — it includes a new and improved image browser and most of the […]

Posted on May 24, 2008June 13, 2010 by Samir Bharadwaj

Portfolio Presentation at College – Presented & Done

Portfolio Presentation at College - Presented & Done

The presentation at my college was done on Sunday. I would say it went well, though not quite an outright and complete success. I get the feeling I might have overestimated the level of interest amongst final year university students for this subject matter, and also their level of understanding of basic internet technologies. Perhaps […]

Posted on March 18, 2008February 15, 2014 by Samir Bharadwaj

Presentation Preparation and Other Public Speaking Anxieties

Presentation Preparation and Other Public Speaking Anxieties

I have been invited to give a presentation — a presentation on digital portfolios to be precise. Dr. John Alexander Smith (with whom I’ve worked before), of the Interior Design department at my old college asked me if I would be interested in talking to a class of final year undergraduates on the subject of […]

Posted on March 14, 2008February 15, 2014 by Samir Bharadwaj

Porsche 911 – Best Pickup Truck of All Time

Porsche 911 - Best Pickup Truck of All Time

Today I loaded a 50 Kg drum of glue into a Porsche 911. Yes, you read right, I mean a real live Porsche 911 sports car, not an old beat up Toyota with a bumper sticker that says “My other car is a Porsche”. And no, I’m not giving up on design and writing and […]

Posted on August 13, 2007July 24, 2010 by Samir Bharadwaj

Coming soon to my open source print workflow

Coming soon to my open source print workflow

A few days ago I finally received some copies of a quarterly print newsletter I work on with Vishal. I’ve been working on this regularly for over two years now. For most of that time I worked on it with Anjali. In fact we came up with it together from scratch when a local engineering […]

Posted on May 12, 2007May 14, 2014 by Samir Bharadwaj

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