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Mana manages content, makes custom art and drinks tea: #manacustomart
Manek does art, design and branding, and hosts a podcast: manekdsilva.com
Shilpa builds amazing tools for businesses at Shopify: LinkedIn
Gaurav co-founded All Things Small, a media company telling non-fiction stories from India: gauravvaz.com
Ashim is a product designer at ThoughtWire, creating systems for smart buildings: ashimdsilva.com
Diversity and detail, representing Lavonne’s award-winning academy in baking science and pastry arts
Hand-written and accessible, built to respond naturally to screen size, and filled with information and animated GIFs
Approaching mental health in India on a personal, everyday note; meeting people in the privacy of their own homes via phone calls.
The annual CUFP workshop is designed to serve the growing community of commercial users of functional programming.
Changing the game around logistics, Embassy Group and Warburg Pincus bring their combined experience to warehousing challenges in a diverse and distributed market like India.
Creating a space for mental health counselling which is lacking support and often taboo in India—online software to provide privacy, booking appointments, online chat and phone call sessions.
The passion project to put more real and honest imagery of India out into the open for widespread use—entirely free-to-use photography representing an Indian view of India.
Create an educational environment comfortable and understanding enough to encourage sharing a connection and discussing a difficult subject—improving the low rate of sex crime reports.
Redesigning to encourage reading and participation—displaying a larger section of their writing, a more dynamic site, and focusing on the faces of change.
Updating with stucture intact—retaining seriousness, improving readability and browsing, and showing firm organisation and dependability.
Online brochure for the exclusive 75 unit villa development by Goyal & Co in Bangalore. Features extensive detail on the villa types, and location within the community.
Rich interactive brochure, extensive pricing calculator and live booking system with a customer relations backend, all wrapped up into a gorgeous application designed by Lazaro Advertising.
Residential and commercial builders with a vast portfolio of richly detailed listings—oraganisation, filtering and ease of maintenance and customisation for each project.
Simplifying repetitive tasks. Creating an application to ease a confusion and excess labor; organising an efficient file system and centralising design control for the brand.
Marketing without marketing: honestly sharing the love for beer and surrounding culture, showing a passionate understanding deeply lacking in India.
Transparent design open to growth—developing a system rather than a finished product, telling the story and setting the tone rather than selling.
A modular framework for publishing rich-media stories for long-form journalism—graphic design, product design and full-stack development on Wordpress.
As a freelancer I’ve had to wear quite a few different hats: I’m a web designer to start with, I do a lot of Flash programming, I write content where required, I’ve had to learn basic HTML markup and server-side languages so I know what’s going on behind the scenes, I’m a client to my service providers, a service provider to my clients, a consultant to other studios and a team member to whoever I’m working with at the time.
Oh no, it’s another article starting with an iPhone 5S reference! The iPhone 5S camera is finally doing what camera geeks have been yelling about over the last few years: improving the sensor and image signal processor without fussing about the final megapixel output.
In entrepreneurship, it’s call pivoting; in politics, it’s being realistic; in relationships, it’s compromise, but across the board there’s a difference of intent, that changes whether you’re going at it with everything you’ve got or hedging your bets with one eye on leaving.