The Kitchen Sink
Like
A Ghost From The Past
She had calmed down by the time she made the
second call to me, “Were you listening to me the last time?” she said quietly over the phone, “I
want you here with me.” There were some
worries with her boy friend, I had sensed it the last time around. “I am ok,” I said and asked her about her
house in Reno. “It’s looking lovely up here now, the summers are upon us and
the winds have changed direction, the Solar Energy System you had us install is
doing very well too.” There was anxiety too here, but we spoke nicely to each
other and put the phone down.
and got on with my life here, there were things
to do and connections to revive and a job to look for. In the meanwhile Deanna had gone from one
stepping stone to another, she excelled in her profession and had made her
moves in the journalism industry too.
Soon it was 2012 and her first call had been in
the month of December that had left me wondering but I had been eager to talk
to her, she had been a friend beyond all boundaries and I had forgotten the
animosity of the past. Her tone had
conveyed to me that something was amiss now, which was unusual, she normally
handled her profession and personal life with aplomb.
Whatever it was, now we would manage it without
any problems, like always after talking to her, life was looking like a fast
car on an open highway
“Life is a Highway, Gonna Ride it All Night Long.”
de·sign : to plan and fashion artistically or skillfully.
Once I
had the sketch ready, I put it into my design folder neatly
stacked up with all my other work, life was
getting lonely, there were hardly any friends and work kept me extremely
busy. I took the scanned copy from my Design
room and walked to Tech Lab and started to render it out on the machine. It was taking time to render it and I still
had 30 minutes to go, so I walked out for a smoke, heart heavy and feet numb, I
took out a Marlboro and lit it up while this voice kept saying in my head, “Honey
It’s Time To Design,” I just didn’t
know where to look, so kept staring out of my window, it was dark, gloomy and
dark, just how I had seen the world for months now, a place to eat, sleep and
work, the noise on the computer woke me up from reverie and I walked back to
the Tech Lab and stared at what I had, it looked perfect, “It always does, it
always does, till it goes to the market,” my mind snapped back at me.
Design is all about :
Panache
Personal
Poise
Perfection.
The
Art Of Enchantment
Still wondering about her, I said to myself,
“Let’s Sketch,” it was late night on Saturday, nowhere to go, I took out out an
A4 sheet and my sketch pens and laid the margins, I had the T-square, the
Compass, Oil Paints, a splash of colour is never appreciate by corporate
audience but then this was me. I started to create what I had dreamt of for 6
months now.
Money drives the world, from the marketplaces
to the oversized malls; the moneyed economy was ruining the minds of people who
still had it in them to create. If I took
the market driven path then I give you what everybody gives you, content,
graphics, design and code, its easy isn’t it ? Just do what everybody is doing,
stay with the herd and earn bucks for every single effort of yours, pilfer and plagiarize,
a big house and Buick outside the house, a pretty wife and two kids standing on
the porch.
The
Code “P”
Pattern
These are the 5 P’s of design that I
have known for centuries, right down from the design of money to the design of
websites. I have adored history, knowing
that through centuries, and especially after the World War – II, design has
always been shy of media, it hides from publicity, likes to be subtle and sure,
defining moment for me during this night.
An umbrella during the rain with
water trickling down the sides, the clouds that look menacing before the burst
and so beautiful, “Hey, what’s up ?” and I am thinking if it rains today I
could design the night away and it did rain today.
My Tech Lab was looking a little
like cluttered and I started to look around for my Book on Design, it wasn’t
really about making money, it was me who wanted to design this for myself and I
was going to be patient, it always paid to wait around these parts, it was
forbidden around here to finish the task before time, it wouldn’t do to ramp
up, it was forbidden.
Design is a very clean process, and
the more we talk about the more we learn, for instance, that special design you
thought you saw up there goes into the dustbin, it is all a right brain
process. The design is to the left brain
what the code to the right brain and once we have a layout ready I would merge
code with it. I prefer doing everything
on my own, it’s all in the design, nobody wants to know what makes it work, but
if it looks great then everyone is floored.
So here’s what I came up with after a cup of coffee of course.
clean and simple,
with straight lines
and
classic colours
to which the coder gives
give a classic 2 column,
with custom graphics.
“I
got The Blues Tonight and The Rhythm is Awesome”
