Transitions

Transitions, a photo by Kabilan S. on Flickr.

Something UNdiscovered.

With almost all my school friends busy with their jobs or have run outside the country for further studies got to meet a few this time. One of them suggested for an early morning trek at Anaikatty. My last trek back at home was at Parsons valley during my school days. As it had also been a long time since I took my camera out it was very exciting and I looked forward for this trek. So we left early at 6 in the morning to Nilgiri Biosphere park for the trek. Reaching there at 7:00, the park opened only at 8:00 which gave us sometime for a quick walk around this place as the sun came out. Once the park opened, we went for the 2 hour trek had some chappati and masal for brunch and left the place.

It felt like something I always wanted to do when I get back home. 

Cover Page Design

Continuing with my addiction to the triangles, this time it was the cover-page design competition for the college annual report. With a very short notice of 3 days and in the middle of our Urban Design Pre- Final submissions, the triangles were a really convincing choice to create a backdrop here. With very less text to go on the cover-page, I focused on creating an interesting and simple back drop which would allow me to play with the text. Within half an hour managed to create the basic pattern of triangles in grayscale. In the next ten minutes I started trying out gradient effects and blend options and got this very effect I have finally used.

Competition Entry

Competition Entry- Front

Competition Entry- Back

Once the competition results were announced and mine shortlisted as the winner, the faculty asks me to make it look more formal i.e, without the tilt in the text as the office people won't understand the graphic and they are more keen on the content. Also had to align the SPA Logo within the triangle, something I missed in the original design.

Final Layout

Final Layout- Front 

Final Layout- Back

Here is a high resolution image of the backdrop, if you like it to be your desktop wallpaper for sometime :D

Wallpaper

Seminar Poster

I was part of the Graphic team at Seminar 2012 in my college.

Here are the final posters and invites that were designed for the event.

Posters:

Printed on A3's and A0's, Matte Finish.

Final Poster

Process

Invitation:
Printed back to back. 6 invites on one A3, Matte Finish, 250gsm paper.
The original ones I made were with a blue backdrop. As it was disagreed by the rest of the team, it had to be re- worked out.  

Invitation ( Front & Back)

Apart from the posters and invites a panel of 841 x 4400mm containing the synopsis of all the individual presentations were made. 

The Cholan Remains

Finally I get to visit the Brihadeeshwara Temple at Thanjavur. Being an architecture student and reading about this great temple during the History of Architecture classes in my second year I always wondered how come I've never been there all this while although I stayed just 250kms away. So this vacation I made it a point to visit this magnificent temple.

The Temple Gateway

Temple Gateway 2

The Temple at Sunset

West side of the Temple

From the top

Gopuram Interior

At Sunrise

Connaught Place, New Delhi

A day before I had to leave home, a friend of mine wanted me to click some pictures of CP looking deserted and so we decided to get there early in the morning for the same. This is one of the photographs I took when I went there.
It was interesting to see all the workers of the different stores playing cricket in the car parking areas on this Sunday morning. You could see some guys standing there waiting for their turn to bat.

Stolen Moments 1

This would be a series of photographs of  the various moments that have been happening around me. Most of these photographs are from my Facebook Album.

How not to climb a Tree

The Different Faces

Out of the Frame

Here and There

A Walk

In Focus

  

Its Raining Light!

An interesting lighting work done at the Grandlays Community Centre, New Friends Colony.
Looks like they have put some LED's within tubes and made them light up alternatively. Also one of first attempts to make a GIF.

Minimal

Up There!, Manali, Himachal Pradesh

SHADES, At Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur

Extension Khirkee- Street Art Festival

Street Art Festival at Khirkee. Some really cool street art by various artists on the walls of the densely populated urban village.

http://extension-khirkee.tumblr.com/

From Flickr

Kabilan S.'s photostream on Flickr.

Updated here for the moment.
Will be coming up with posts soon.