The Peace Cup

My Portfolio :-)


The Peace Cup is a football tournament taking place in Chandigarh in the month of October. Its been happening since the last 5 years, so after achieving a milestone of 5 successful peace cups, the people in-charge thought of making a new logo.
and that is where I came in :-)

So,
When I started off, I had 3 main things in my mind.
- I want to make a logo.
- Peace is the name
- Football.
and I guess, that is everything the logo predicts.

Chopper

A Chopper is a motorcycle, designed manually from scratch, like just a piece of chassis, or 'Chopped' from an already existing motorcycle.

Chopper kind of motorcycles have been in our world since the late 1930's, and since then there have been two kinds of people related to them- the ones who love riding it, and the ones who love making it.

So we here, are gonna talk about the ones who make it, make the Chopper, it's an ART.

Earlier, a customized motorcycle was said to have got "Bobbed", they used to remove all the non-essential parts, like front fenders, they used to "bob" the rear fenders, and all other accessories, and a "Bobber" was made!

Today, the designers do pretty much the same thing, but its more modernized now.

Another main difference is, most of the time, a Chopper is built right from scratch, from welding a chassis, into a desired look, till designing and building every single element of the motorcycle, whereas a Bobber involved just modifying the whole motorcycle, and removing all the parts that are not required.

Choppers today are like a tremendous piece of art.

How will you recognize a Chopper?

Pretty simple, you'll see a loud roaring, beautiful looking shiny motorcycle, lots of chrome, the front wheel going way ahead to make it go smooth and gas tanks, exhausts, and other parts customized and carved out manually.

You'll find a lot of designing work done on the bike, painted with share art, on the gas tanks, the rear fender, and other parts if necessary.

Basically, a chopper will be stripped off from all the parts that aren't required to make it go, from front brakes to speedometers, and windshields to mirrors, all it has is customized body parts, carved out manually to give it an extensive look.

Chopper building is a big business now, when a chopper is built, it is built it on a theme.

The theme could be anything, from a motorcycle for a fire department, to a Commanche helicopter.

In the 1980s, motorcycle companies like Harley-Davidson began to offer what they called custom bikes. Coupled with an economic recession, this move nearly made chopper culture go extinct. It was only in the mid '90s that custom bike shops began to flourish again, and today the culture is as strong as it ever was.

Internazionale

(The Hall of Fame)

Well, above you see is one of my all time favorite logos. Most of you might be familiar with it, it is the logo of Inter-Milan, a Football club from the very famous Italian Serie-A.

The elegance, the colors, the concept are all just perfect, brilliant peace of art from the designer.

Hats off sir!

The design originally was given by a painter and one of the founder the club, Sir Giorgio Muggiani, in 1908. Since then not much changes have been made to the original piece, but even today after an astounding 102 years, the Badge still shines, and lets not take the credit away from the club itself, for making it shine. Inter-Milan has been one of the top performing clubs in Serie-A, winning both the National League and the European Champions League hosted by UEFA, this year.

The original logo given in 1908 had a bit different colors to the one you see above, but still was as good, and looked almost similar.

but anyway,

Internazionale, is one of the all time masterpieces, and so it goes as the first entry in my Hall of Fame :-)

della chiusura!

The Rupee Symbol

And so the Indian Currency, the 'Rupee' joins the elite club of currencies today.

The Indian Cabinet introduced the new design today after selecting it from top 5 entries, following a national competition. The symbol will signal the growing state of India's economy.

The Winning Design came from Mr. Uday Kumar, a lecturer in Design at IIT Mumbai. He exclaims that - "My design is based on the tricolor, with tow lines at the top and white space in between. I wanted the symbol for the rupee to represent the Indian flag. It is a perfect blend of Indian and Roman Letters: a capital 'R' and Devanagari 'ra' which represents rupiya, to appeal to international audiences."

Measures are already taken to have the rupee sign declared as an international computer standard, and be embedded in the standard computer keyboard as are the dollor and other symbols of the elite club.

The Government of India, has spoken that it would take at least 6months for the whole transition to take place. The notes and the coins would not yet have any change.

What I feel is,

The symbol looks pretty nice. It would really nicely fit in the group of symbols that exist prematurely.

The idea depicted by the person is nice, and has been nicely implemented, lets just see where it takes our economy.

A part of my Portfolio

Well, its available at the top of the page, but I thought I'll post it too, after-all its a part of my portfolio! ;-)

I hope you like it.

Chao!

Love ♥

What is Love?

Some say its Magical, and Complex and you just cannot define it. Some say its a feeling of strong affection for someone close to their heart, and for some its just about passion and sex.

Yes, Love is everything one can think of.

The definitions and the point of views of a person change with the experiences they keep having. For one person at some point of time in ones life Love could be magical, for some strong sense of affection, and appreciation, and Yes, for some it could just be about sex. Its all about Time and experience.

Love can take many forms, magical, sacrificial, imaginary, and even psychotic.

Since, mankind came into existence, Love came with it, and since then Love has been just undefinable.

Poets rhyme poetry about it, minstrels sing songs for it, and the writers write stories about it, but none could ever define it.

I ask, why do you even want to define it?

why not just live with the mystery of it, and as life goes on, you discover it for yourself. As you go deeper and deeper into it, you find it to be more beautiful, you yourself tend to have definitions of your own. You find a poet, a minstrel, and a writer inside yourself trying to define what is Love.

Its all true, Love is Accepting, Appreciating, and wanting others to be Happy every single day.

Yes, Love is expressing! expressing how you feel about the one you love, how you feel when that one person is around you, how you feel when that one person just touches you.

Love is everything and anything that comes to your mind!

My fellow Earth-Mate, you can only know what Love is when you actually fall in it, you'll feel your life turn upside down, your mind occupied with silly but beautiful thoughts, you'll see all kinds of beauty around you, flowers, trees, sky and everything, but only when you actually are in Love.

otherwise,

everything you just read is Bullshit! :-)

from the Holy Bible -

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

and this my friend, is the Design behind Love :-)
Signing off!
Yours Truly ჱܓ

Story About Paul

Paul The "Psychic" Octopus

Hatched in 2008, this 8 legged creature has made quite a name for himself in 2 years.

So, what does he do?

Well, he does nothing but eat!

The astonishing fact is, today, the whole world sits with their fingers crossed wondering where Paul would eat from.

OK, let me just through it off at you, Paul is said to be a "Psychic"!

What they do is they provide Paul with two Boxes, marked with the flag of the nations that are about to go against each other in a match-up, that is currently the FIFA World Cup.

So, the two boxes have the same food in it, and the box that Paul chooses to eat from, turns to be the prediction of which nation will win the match-up.

He's been doing this since he was a lil' kid, in 2008, he predicted most of the matches correctly for the EuroCup 2008.

Well, as the Indian News Reporters call him, "The Octopus BABA", is doing a nice job. He has got 11 of 13 predictions correct, till now.

Paul is helping his race too, as most of the Spanish restaurant have taken Octopuses off their menus, Way to go Paul!!

He has reportedly got killing threats too, hmmmm,

thats what happens when you go famous, some love you, some criticize you, some try to kill you, you even have rivals, like 'Mani the Parakeet' - he too has been doing a nice job with his prediction, he's just not that famous yet.

We just hope our Paul handles the fame nicely, and wish luck for our up-coming Parakeet 'Mani', don't worry Mani, you'll be famous when the Indian News Reporters find you ;)

and just for your information, for the Poll on my blog, Paul predicts it to be a Spanish win :-)

Signing off!

Your's Truly :-)

The Pebbles

(A Part of my Portfolio)

Pebbles - a NGO based in Chandigarh.

The Pebbles was founded by a group of college going students, in a room located not far away from my house. The idea for it came to a friend of mine, and he gathered all his friends including me, shared the story, we added our thoughts, and there it was a perfect idea to an organization.

Now, came to us - the name, which was indeed the most exciting part to decide on, and from building blocks, to stones, came up pebbles!

Name-done!

The Logo was the next big task, and now came in the picture, yours truly :-)

The friend of mine, who came up with the idea of the NGO, also had a nice idea about the logo, and my task was to implement it for him.

A logo, should depict what you do, so we had to include something like pebbles or stones.

We started giving it a shot, went through some fonts, drafted some designs, and came up with the things you see at the top.

It has the pebbles, has the name, and Logo is ready!

Signing off!

Pranav Singh

The Beginning.

Who i am ?

My name is Pranav Singh, and i am supposedly the founder of this blog.

Well, this is my first post, so i'll start with my introduction.

Since the day i was born, which was about 20years from now, I've been living and wandering around in Chandigarh(India), and frankly speaking I love this place.

Lately(i.e. some years ago), I developed an interest - Graphic Designing (on which this blog is based on)

and I just started off with it.

slowly and steadily I really started enjoying it, and my designs were being appreciated by a lot (not flaunting, its true :P ).

So, my lil' fascination became a very enjoyable hobby.

and here I am today, writing this post, and believe me or not, but the idea of making a blog for this interest, came to me approximately 33 minutes ago, and I thought of nothing, texted my friends, and just started off!

I would be posting my work and sharing a lot of things with you through this blog, though not very frequently, because besides this, i am also studying my Engineering in Computer Science, so u know, I can do a lil' bit of programming too ;-).

So my honorable reader, i'd like to declare,

this day, 8-July-2010, as the day I wrote my first ever blog, for my all time favorite hobby - Designing.

I will try putting in some more good posts besides the designs i make.

and I hope you like my Work. :-)

Signing off!

Pranav Singh