India is called a land of ‘unity in diversity’. This multilingual, multi racial and multi cultural republic is absolutely unique in the way it thrives along with its millions of populace. It has been regarded as a land of mysticism and an oriental land by the westerners. Even today this nation breathes some features of the oriental world that has blended well with the advanced features of the modern age to give rise to truly inimitable culture.
Nepal lies on a little territory and if to look for it on the map you’ll see it as a piece of land that reminds footprint, which is squeezed between two Asian monsters – India and China. Relief of Nepal is like a tribune of a stadium. It has extended from south to the north on about 150 kilometres. And all this space gradually raises higher and higher, row upon row. The football field and racecourses are fertile lowlands of India, and overhead rows next to a board are the Large Himalaya range after which there is a homeless mountain desert – the Tibetan Plateau. Jungles to the south and eternal ices to the north. Hills and valleys, stormy rivers and snow lances of mountain of 8,000 metres or higher. People arrive here, to see the Nature. And they can find it here. But Nepal also has its original culture. Due to the long-term isolation, Nepal saved unique cities, temples, customs. In this collection of photos we made an effort share with you the spirit of Nepal and maybe to inspire you on a new trip in to this enigmatic country.
Adolfo Farsari (11 February 1841 – 7 February 1898) was an Italian photographer based in Yokohama, Japan. Following a brief military career, including service in the American Civil War, he became a successful entrepreneur and commercial photographer. His photographic work was highly regarded, particularly his hand-coloured portraits and landscapes, which he sold mostly to foreign residents and visitors to the country. Farsari's images were widely distributed, presented or mentioned in books and periodicals, and sometimes recreated by artists in other media; they shaped foreign perceptions of the people and places of Japan and to some degree affected how Japanese saw themselves and their country. His studio, the last notable foreign-owned studio in Japan, was one of the country's largest and most prolific commercial photographic firms. Largely due to Farsari's exacting technical standards and his entrepreneurial abilities it had a significant influence on the development of photography in Japan.
I love photography. I cannot stop publishing inspirational photography articles. Just a few days ago, I was looking at some gorgeous Travel photographs. At that point of time an idea crossed my mind, how cool would it be to collect photographs of various countries, its monuments, its specialities, its negatives, everything that represents that country. Thus, from today onwards(till time permits) I would be publishing photography of one country per week. So, starting with my own Country, India, today I would be publishing the first post on Country Photography Series. This post is on Incredible India Photography.
A lot of people get into start-ups to avoid the stuffy suit-and-org-chart style culture of big companies. But if you're good (and a bit lucky) and the business you founded starts to grow, you're faced with a challenge--how do you keep that inspiring, humane and relaxed vibe of the early days going even if your company is now far from just four people in a garage?
Alessandro Pautasso is a graphic designer and illustrator whose specialty lies in vector art and mixed media. He began drawing when he was just a child, under the guidance of his mother who is a painter. It was when Alessandro discovered an illustration book about the Beatles by Alan Aldridge that he realized that he wanted to become a designer/illustrator. Attracted by the visual arts, he started working in the field of commercial art and simultaneously focused on the so-called digital art.
Different colors have different meanings in different cultures, that's what you already know I ques. Many books and tutorials points to this difference with clever advice to take this in account when designing for clients from different parts of the World. Only one thing is missing in so many books and tutorials: where to check or how to figure out what each of colors mean in each culture.
Finally I found link in the book 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People to the site Information Is Beautiful with color wheel that shows how different colors are viewed by different cultures...
Are all the modern devices and digital conveniences we have at our disposal — from the web and social media to smartphones and tablets — making us more distracted and less able to concentrate? And is this harming our ability to think and be creative, and therefore by extension harming society as a whole? It’s a question that rears its head from time to time. One of the latest expressions of this fear comes from Joe Kraus, a serial entrepreneur who is now a partner with Google Ventures and gave a presentation recently about his concerns, offering an alternative concept he calls “Slow Tech.” But is this really something that we need to be afraid of?
The world seems to be getting a little smaller each day thanks to online communities and social networking. In turn, this “world-wide community” has created an international readership for a variety of websites.
Designers must weigh carefully the messages they send to that potentially broad user-base.
One aspect of design that can have far reaching and sometimes unintentional effects on readers is color. Colors have a variety of associations within North American culture alone, and can mean something radically different to Japanese or Middle Eastern readers, where color meanings are frequently much more specific and defined.
It is important to understand how color associations vary from culture to culture, and within different possible audiences, when planning a website.
A collection of 70 Avengers Artworks is showcased in this next post in tribute to this cool group of heroes and for the movie Avengers Assemble. This is a good year for super hero movies so far, and it’s only may. Good luck Batman and Spidey trying to top the Avengers! While we wait for those, let’s enjoy some art. The movie version is composed of various heroes including Hawkeye, Black Widow, Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, and the Hulk. This is the work of several different artists, each with an unique style, that pay tribute to the mightiest heroes on Earth. The result is an eclectic collection, where there’s something in for everyone.
Skybox Creative, a branding and web design studio in San Diego releases new graphic design project: “Infographic – 20 Years of Slang”. A group of innovative designers and creative minds, Skybox planned out this concept during an inspiration session in a recent staff meeting.
“We wanted to put our creative talents towards a fun project we could share; one that would make people think but also make them laugh.” said Angelina Sereno, the CEO of Skybox Creative. “What we found most interesting was how words and phrases have morphed over time. For instance, we see a lot more initialisms and combined words that sound really funny in the 2000’s. Some of the words in the infographic are a little daring or sexually charged, but it is a direct reflection of what we see happening in the world, especially in pop culture.”
At my gym last week, I saw an extraordinary scene. A man was working out on a stationary bicycle, reading – a book! Not your ordinary bestseller taken from the rack at a Wal-Mart but an old book, with small script and thin paper. I stopped short of congratulating him for being a survivor of a dying species.
Popular culture (commonly known as pop culture) is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society.
It’s 2012, and yet I feel more calm about our future than ever before.
The Internet has saved our asses, and we should celebrate.
I’ve been on the Web for a long time, but every once in a while I have one of those tremendous moments when I have a mental flashback to these last 20 or so years… It happened today… one of my favorite Adele songs, writ large in a YouTube fan culture spectacular.
Street Art and graffiti refelects culture and its part are well-known for being provocative, appealing, bold and uncompromising. Originally used by gangs to mark their territory in some urban area, graffitis have now become a rich medium for unrestricted expression of ideas and statements. For your inspiration today we are dedicating this post to creative artist using Graffiti Artworks to showcase their unrivaled talent but nowadays it has become an affluent medium to express your ideas in the most challenging. To show you some of the best artwork on streets we have showcased 50 Most beutiful graffiti artworks. Enjoy
David Lazar is a pianist, composer and photographer from Brisbane, Australia – who loves traveling and capturing moments of life and beauty through photography. His favorite styles of photography are portraiture and landscape, and he enjoys expressive people shots and scenes with a timeless quality that do not reference to the modern urban world. He is attracted to countries that are culturally unique as he is interested in people, their way of life, traditions and customs.
This confused baby tries to manipulate a ‘Marie Claire’ magazine like you would an iPad. Too much screen time in the crib?
The characters that define our popular culture always have to start somewhere. Here are ten famous characters you never knew were based on real life people.
