There is a ton of literature that tells people what leadership is about and how you can become or be a better leader. But what if I said that the most important lesson on leadership can be learned from a horse? For those of you who have had some experience…

I am a millennial, woman of color, a designer and like many others, my design career has seen a lot of ups and downs. At home, I was an outlier who chose a career that was unknown and disapproved by family. At design school, I was not the best in…

The sky was grey. There were houses on both sides of the street that looked somewhat similar to each other. But that’s all that was there — houses, but no cars, no people. There was a certain stillness in the air too. But my mind was experiencing something completely opposite…

Thoughts on self-discovery, optimism and future preparedness — Not at least in the last 35 years have I seen a global, unanimous hatred for something as inanimate as a year. 2020 is the one singular demon of all our lives. Lives were lost to disease, natural disasters, riots and depression. We have all witnessed real-life apocalyptic scenes from…

It has been 75 days since we took the decision to not send our toddler to daycare. Since then, life has been a bit of an emotional and physical rollercoaster. Our household consists of 5 people (me, my husband, my toddler and 2 cat babies) and somehow, we all have…

A graphic designer’s nostalgia What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear someone say, “Did you check your mail today?” My hunch is that you’re thinking of your inbox. Physical mail boxes have come down to being associated with unnecessary marketing direct mails, 90% of which…

A logo design workshop for 10th graders in Zimbabwe ‘What is Graphic Design according to you?”, I asked Alisannah, a 13 year old, who was one of the few students who genuinely seemed interested in the ‘art class’ at school. “I think it is something to do with drawing, and…

Turning a popular hypothesis into a tangible game If everything physically possible happens in the universe, why do we only see one possibility at a time? Hugh Everett’s answer is there’s more than one you, and you are splitting into trillions of copies of yourself every time there’s a quantum…

Designing a social experiment that makes people uncomfortable. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust, ‘In Search of Lost time’ (1909) Most humans are creatures of habit. Right from when we are babies, we love to be put…