Design Thoughts : July 2009

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Cardinal Point: Mumbai

Original Location: India

Presently at: IDC

Period: (2009-2018)

Date: (2009)


Detail

This issue has a collection of thoughts again like the first issue from many disciplines that are connected to design. This includes — research into the history of Tamil typography from the southern part of India (‘Traditional writing system in Southern India — Palm leaf manuscripts’), building up a collaborative environment on the net that is inclusive of new audiences (‘Across the Web: The Colors of India as a cross-cultural collaborative initiative for learning’), how simple dots can mean a lot (‘Bindu: The Dot Personified’), investigation and analysis regarding the use of a multi-faceted storytelling device (‘The Kaavad storytelling tradition of Rajasthan’), building up of a structural model for creating stories (‘Fractal like Model for Designing Educational Stories’) and a study of the different properties of the grid (‘Functions of Grid, a key for flexibility in framework’),


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