Design Thoughts 
August 2010:

    page 1 
 Introduction (pdf 161kb)
    Ravi Poovaiah

    page 2-10 
 Natura Domestica: nature and/of/in homes (pdf 5.8mb)
    Neelakantan P. K., Uday Athavankar

    page 11-24 
 Grounded Theory: An Effective Method for User Experience     Design Research (pdf 778kb)
    Pramod Khambete, Uday Athavankar

    page 25-46
 On Defining Visual Narratives (pdf 942kb)
    Sherline Pimenta, Ravi Poovaiah

    page 47-58 
 Investigation of the most preferred Bilingual Combination of     Words: An Experiment with a selected Place Identification     Signboard (pdf 1.13mb)
    Nanki Nath, Ravi Poovaiah

    page 59-72 
 Identification & Classification of Semantic Units Used in     Formation of Patterns in Kundan Jewellery, a Methodical     Approach (pdf 1.85mb)
    Parag K. Vyas, V.P. Bapat 
                                                                                                


Design Thoughts 
July 2009:

    page 1 
 Introduction (pdf 130kb)
    Ravi Poovaiah

    page 2-7 
 Traditional writing system in Southern India — Palm leaf     manuscripts (pdf 814kb)
    D. Udaya Kumar, G.V.Sreekumar, U. A. Athvankar

    page 8-23 
 Across the Web: The Colors of India as a cross-cultural     collaborative initiative for learning (pdf 1610kb)
    Dr. Ajanta Sen, Ravi Poovaiah, Robert Pulley

    page 24-27
 Bindu: The Dot Personified (pdf 478kb)
    Haku Shah

    page 28-33 
 The Kaavad storytelling tradition of Rajasthan (pdf 697kb)
    Nina Sabnani

    page 34-41 
 Fractal like Model for Designing Educational Stories (pdf 728kb)
    Sachin Dutt

    page 42-48 
 Functions of Grid, a key for flexibility in framework (pdf 691kb)
    Prasad Bokil
                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                

Design Thoughts 
January 2009:

    page 1 
 Introduction (pdf 39kb)
    Ravi Poovaiah

    page 2-4 
 Once I Was A Banyan Deer (pdf 801kb)
    Shilpa Ranade

    page 5-10 
 Design by People within Culturally-rooted Idioms
- the new ‘cool’ in a globalised world (pdf 693kb)
    Ravi Poovaiah, Ajanta Sen

    page 11-19
 Visual Appetite (pdf 976kb)
    Mandar S. Rane

    page 20-24 
 Narrative and Non-Narrative Traditions (pdf 1269kb)
    Raja Mohanty

    page 25-30 
 New Post Box Design For Indian Postal Service (pdf 706kb)
    B. K. Chakravarthy

    page 30-36 
 Anatomy of Devanagiri Typefaces (pdf 614kb)
    Girish Dalvi

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