One of my best friends living in Dhaka, had spent several years abroad, studying human emotions, introduced to Star signs and Zodiacs during those days which medicated his pain in mind, body and soul. I met Javed in a classroom and we came very close and started spending time either in his studio, attached to a children school, which used to run by his mother, or else we used to hang out at ALLIANCE FRANCAISE, Shilpangan or else there were so many different places….:)

So.. Javed, his studio, his thought process, his analysis of emotions, figurative studies through sketches and paintings, and listening Pink Floyd at his studio till 2 or 3am, all memories.. souvenirs avec Javed Jalil.

I hope, Javed will read it, and can recollect those days well, so..Javed… can you remember the mindful exercise of analyzing minds of …

Here is a tribute to his beautiful mind. Peintures de Javed Jalil..

In the light of healing sun
Description in Javed’s own words: the light of the sun the giver of life and the healer , where all animals and forms of life dances with sensuality and joy as the face of the girl seduces the light where everything is possible.

Birth of a Flower

Description in Javed’s own words: Birth taking its course within the tintet green of life as it starts with in the mingle of togetherness nature and man becomes one.

Daily Star, the leading English Daily in Bangladesh written about him-

“JAVED Jalil went to USA in 1987 to study philosophy and literature. There he got attracted to the art galleries and read books on art, especially on Goya and Picasso. “I became attracted to their psychological aspects and began to draw. I was involved in an accident. To alleviate my physical pain and loneliness I went deep into fine arts. With the help of paintings I could concentrate more and find greater peace within myself,” says Javed. At first he went to Bethany College in Kansas. Later he simultaneously worked in Los Angeles and went to the Trade Technical college.

Subsequently, he studied at the Los Angeles School of Art for a while and then went back to working on fine arts. He got to know some artists who helped him in different ways. These included Granados and Haskins who inspired him greatly. “More than that, my inspiration came from nature; drawing and painting gave me solace,” he says.

Later on he did workshops with David Hockney and delved deep into the works of Goya, Rembrandt and Picasso. “I liked Goya’s intensity and Picasso’s ability to penetrate the deeper source of life,” he says. He experienced joy and satisfaction in creating a world of his own in art. Asked if any Bangladeshi artists influenced him, he says that SM Sultan’s lifestyle attracted him as well as Quamral Hassan’s diversity of subjects and somewhat Matisse-like style. Among the senior fellow artists that he gets along well with, are Abdus Shakoor and Hamiduzzaman Khan.

“I find the human figure very interesting,” elaborates Javed, when asked about his subjects. “I can identify myself in their twists and turns. I often combine nature and animals with human figures. As for the media I like to go in for oils as I enjoy how it plays on the canvas and the luminous effect it has. I also love its fragrance. In my recent works I’ve used Chinese brush with ink with the surface ground building up in oil. So the work is a combination of painting and graphics. I like the strong sense of line for which I use the brushes, using a chemical to see that the oil doesn’t merge with the lines. I take images around me and try to create a lyrical composition. My imagination also works on the figures to form the composition structures in which I aim at symphonies.”

He sometimes does straightforward drawings with different types of pens. Then he graduates on to the canvas and after some hours he proceeds on to a water-colour, as the mood takes him. After a break he goes on to painting again. While working, he listens to classical music such as Bach, Chopin and Vivaldi. He says that the music helps him focus. As the sound affects his nerves, he moves his fingers. Incidentally Gallery Shilpangan is like his second home where he has addas with his fellow artists.

Javed has exhibited his works in Los Angeles and Dhaka.”

What is Design Management, is it management or design or management of designers, or management of design process and develop a close-to-concept model or prototype! I am really trying to find out the meaning of it in true senses, as design and application of it is an ever-evolving process. Within a large design group you are likely to encounter two distinguishing career goals: designers who want to manage others and designers who don’t want to be managed or want to manage. In both cases, the opportunities may exist beyond the design organization. Product Leads may opt to pursue more direct product ownership by absorbing business responsibilities and becoming business/product owners in the Product Management organization. Strategic Designers may instead expand their skills to include new business growth and move into Product or Corporate Strategy groups. The diagram below illustrates these potential growth paths as well as those found within the design group (red lines).

(with inputs from Luke Wroblewski, a prolific writer and design strategist)

Watch a 5.05 minutes video on Don Norman to commemorate his receiving the 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal for laying the foundations of user centered design.

Just a few snaps taken using my PDA.

Today while coming back home after workout, suddenly, I remembered Krishnanjan. We met in Pune last month, after so long 15 years!! Where was he during this time? Where was I..it is very interesting, a social networking site named Orkut has really helped me to find out him through Alip. Kudos to Alip!

Well! We were great warriors and competitors in school days for almost 10 years! And, frankly speaking, it was really nice that we met after 15 years and I actually never felt I was meeting him after so long years, months..days..it was like “I have seen you other day”. But in reality, it was not and what I learn from him this time is “How to practice Patience”..let time speaks..!

I met Krishnanjan’s father, I could not even remember his face before meeting him, because, hardly I seen him in school days, but I can still remember Krishnanjan’s Grandma. I still remember, Krishnanjan used to sit with her and have had his tiffin or lunch whatever. “Kaku” was awesome! I must say, Krishnanjan is lucky, he had got a father like him. There are a very few parents in this world like Krishnanjan’s parents, who can actually accept their children not as a “kid” but as a “matured friend”. Friendship is such a relation, which exists even after we die physically.

As I was remembering him, after returning home, powered on laptop and wrote these words..bla bla..bla..Like to upload a few pictures from memories and these snaps were taken by Krishnanjan in his new Canon Digital Cam.

In the year of 2004, I met founders of this highest grade European (Scandinavian) animation and post production studio in SoftExpo 2004 in Dhaka and there was a delegation from Denmark comprises of managers and decision makers visiting Dhaka for outsourcing opportunities through DANINDA (Embassy of Denmark). I had a very successful discussion with them during this period.
I was actually representing my previous organization and BASIS for some projects on industrial level graphic design and 3D visualization services. As a 3D lover, I really liked and value their works. Ghost is undoubtedly the best 3D production and post production company in scandanavia region and Ghost consists of a team of professional and creative people with many years of experience in the production of 3D Graphics and VFX, for feature films as well as TV and advertising.

See what they have spoken about themselves-
“Since the humble beginnings in a caravan in 1999, Ghost has strived to make 3D Graphics and Visual Effects of the highest quality.Today, we have moved on from borrowed desks and a leaky tent.We now reside in an office consisting of 5000 square feet over two floors, with 2 suites and a frightening amount of computer hardware, without a caravan in sight.”

Here, I would like to copy and paste a small textual content from their one of the best productions for Nokia mobile which was advertised through media worldwide. You have also seen this, if you are a TV-freaker. I have taken the following texts and above images from their site www.ghost.dk. Cheers for them !

Grey Copenhagen won the bid to create an advert for the global launch of Nokia’s new phone, the 3220 and they in turn hired Ghost to make the film in 3D. The Nokia 3220 has a host of different accessories you can clip on to personalize it, most notably a backplate that enables the user to write light-messages in the air.The advert illustrates the countless ways the phone can be customized and hundreds of phones are shown on the screen, while they assemble, detach and move in complicated patterns.The first step was an animatic made with low-rez geometry, which was repeatably tweaked and adjusted. This happened in close collaboration with the agency and the director, until the sequence was finalized. At the same time, CAD-models from Nokia were adapted and optimised for use in Maya.The deadline on the project was very tight considering the level of ambition: 12 different versions of the film had to be ready in 4 weeks.In order to handle the vast number of polygons and minimize the number of re-renders and render-layers, we decided to render out the whole film in Renderman.The film was delivered in 2K and broadcast globally.

I will write more on this. Will come back soon and write more. Till then, see the images.

While surfing net to collect some royalty free stock photographs a few weeks back, I found an interesting blog site named http://swedenweddingsphoto.blogspot.com

This is his official website : http://stockholmweddings.se

This is an initiative by Ian Johnson. I’m quite amazed to see the way Ian tells a story through his photographs. Let’s not talk about Technology, I liked way Ian said, “My style is a cinematic photo-journalistic story telling style but with an eye-catching look. Pretend your wedding is a movie”. I had a question here, why Ian depicts himself as a Photo Journalist, yes, he might be right in the way, photo-journalists used to create stories out of a news, but I wanted to say, Ian could mark himself as A Visual Story Teller, and in a cinematic way, no news, no stories out of it. Marriage itself is a story, Ian is having script in his hand, he knows the story is taking place in a melodramatic way and he needs to capture it within frames with his own style, blended with technology and he produces a Cinema called “The Saga of Wedding” out of it.

Few of the photographs taken by Ian Johnson

Please note that, all and any kind of credit and copyright of these photographs belong to Ian only. You can contact him at ianjohnsonfoto@telia.com or call him at +46708990121.

For some time, I was thinking to organize and participate in an Open Workshop. What is this? Open Workshop? an workshop opened to everybody? or an workshop opened to experiment with different artforms and media? Or, it’s a workshop, which will be held under the open blue sky with scotching heat generated by fat old sun. Let me explain.

My Idea of an Open Workshop

The Open Workshop could be a production, design and development and residency centre for creative artists all across media, painting, photography art, animation, film, graphic design and music. It is a haven where both new and acknowledged and unknown talents, artists and professionals can reside for a time to work on their personal projects, on their own and together. The Open Workshop will provide necessary environment, the facilities and some of the financial means necessary to develop and produce “creative shits” end of the day.

The Open Workshop can support and host the production of short films and other short-term-low-budget projects as well as the development phases on longer-term and more costly endeavours. After development, such film and show concepts can be presented to Indian and European production companies for further development and co-production. In the case of short films, this open workshop facilities can manage worldwide festival distribution.

The Open Workshop is a centre for those persons who loves to dream and try to shape their dreams into reality, but as such it could also be central to commercial project development. It will be the place where new cultural products can arise, where international cross-media research and development projects can be carried out in collaboration with others. This place could be such a place, where the most important of all cultural products, concepts and stories, will be born.

I would like to discuss these issues with anybody interested to venture into this. We want money and space to start, otherwise, this is such a dream, which cannot be turned into reality and I am sure, this is a great venture to do in terms of unite and collaborative practice of applied art in our country.

FRAMES is a research-oriented agency that has been established to fill the gap of theoretical knowledge and practical aspects of effective visual communication. By creating, and focusing on innovative marketing and market research inputs as the core basis of all our marketing communications activities, we stand apart from all other conventional traditional practices in this region.

Today, the success of any organization depends on how effectively it communicates with its target audiences. Effective communication goes well beyond simply enhancing corporate reputation and building brand equity. At Frames, we help our clients identify and understand their audiences through the use of different, innovative tools to reach their desired objectives. In a world where the consumer shapes the marketplace, marketers need more than just good advertising and promotions in order to drive profitable growth. Businesses need to be able to identify what the market needs in order to provide effective solutions and services accordingly.

Last year, during Durga Puja, I was with Alip and seen him doing experiment with very familiar objects we come across in everyday life, but I was amazed to see the way he was treating those… absolutely different. See the snaps taken by Alip, post your comments.

In today’s world of Media, the demand is “effective communication of ideas”. Based on this idea, we started Frames. It is a group of individuals comprises Still Photographers, Short Filmmakers and Graphic Designers. Based on assignments, we form a team with internal and external consultants and work. We have worked for several prestigious organizations and individuals.

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