Watch Company Pays Tribute to Timelessness

Creativegarh And Tribal Route Presents: The Coming Of Summer

Creativegarh and Tribal Route invite you to an exhibition of art and craft from the 20th of March to the 5th of April. Take your pick of jewelry, trendy bags, lifetyle accessories, coffee mugs, fabric sculpts, rock art, wall hangings, cutlery, footwear, candles, stole, angarakha kurtis, lamps, artefacts, ceramics and other unique creations.

Also a must dekko are works of art in oil, watercolor, acrylic and experimental medium that are now on sale.

At Creativegarh

37A & 41 Shahpurjat, New Delhi 110049

Tel: 91.11.26494214

Scraptures Now In Mumbai

I am having my first show in Mumbai of my creations – scraptures, lamps, accessories and furniture. Please do take out time and have a dekko if you are in Mumbai or visiting Mumbai.

The show is on till at 29th of September 2007 at:
Turqoise
Sunbeam Building
2 & 3, Perry Cross Road
Bandra (W), Mumbai – 50
Tel: 32409827

The store is open all 7 days from 11am to 8pm.

A Logo For 7 Years Of Creativegarh?

7 years? Already?

Yes! Creativegarh will soon be 7 years old, that is, on the 12th of September 2007.

And what could be a better way to celebrate Creativegarh’s seventh birthday than by giving it a beautiful birthday gift that’ll last for one whole year.

How about a logo to celebrate the 7 Years of Creativegarh?

We’ve been creating a commemoratory logo for the two years inhouse. [ You can see the '6 Years of Creativegarh' logo here. ] And this time, we thought, why not have the members of the community come up with a logo.

The brief is simple, and wide open.
We need a logo that captures the essence of Creativegarh as you see it. It needs to say ‘Celebrating 7 Years of Creativegarh’ or anything better that you can come up with as long as ‘Creativegarh’ is a part of the line / phrase / copy. Also, the logo should translate easily across mediums and across sizes and should look ‘equally good’ in black and white. One more thing. The 7 Years Logo should ‘preferably’ use the Creativegarh colours. Green and Blue to signify that that it is a global community. Black to signify the magic and mystery that creativity holds. And white to signify the purity of the creative expression. The ‘CG’ swirl in the centre of the Creativegarh logo signifies the energy associated with creative thinking.

An EPS version of the Creativegarh logo can be downloaded from here. 

5 logos will be shortlisted by a panel from within the Creativegarh community itself. And then, the entire community will vote for their favourite logo. Democratic as always.

How to send in your entries?
All participating members are requested to send in their designs to me  in .jpg format, in a minimum size of 4×4 inches (450×450 pixels @ 72 dpi). A higher resolution version may also be requested. Please mark the subject of the mails as ‘Creativegarh logo’ and please send it latest by Friday, the 31st of August 2007.

Who can participate?
Anyone and everyone. Logo designers, freelancers, design companies, individuals or anyone who is feeling creative enough and thinks he / she can do a good job of it. And we’re sure you can.

And finally, what’s in it for you?
Oh come on, don’t ask that! This is the least you can do for a community that really tries to do so much for you. But yes, if your logo is the winner, we’ll make sure you get due credit wherever this logo is used – on partner websites, on blogs, other forums, and all Creativegarh collateral. What’s more, the entire Creativegarh community will give you a standing ovation. In addition to this, we’ll ensure that we use your services on a live and paid logo design project for a client within the next 6 months. And if that’s not enough, I personally promise you a fantastic meal with unlimited wine whenever we meet in person. It’ll be great to have your company.

Please feel free to forward this post to your friends / colleagues and associates.

Looking forward to some mindblowing designs.

For creativity,
Arun Verma
Moderator, Creativegarh: Where creative minds meet, work and play!

How To Start Your Own Design Business – A Creativegarh Workshop

We at Creativegarh are planning to hold a one day workshop sometime in September in Delhi on ‘How to start your own design business’. The workshop will cover all aspects of getting started as a design entrepreneur – the do’s, the dont’s, the tricks, the resource gathering, how to get clients and how to keep clients.

So, if you are an aspiring design entrepreneur and are interested in attending this workshop, please write to me or call me
on +91.9811214413

Also, if you are already a design entrepreneur and would like to share your insights and experiences at the workshop, please do get in touch as well.

Look forward to a full-house.

The Jeevika Trophies

This year again, we were commissioned by Centre for Civil Society to design the trophies for Jeevika 2007 - a documentry film competition on livelihood issues. We had designed the trophies for the inaugural Jeevika in 2003 as well.

Pictures below:
1. The Jeevika 2007 trophies
2. Finance Minister, P Chidambaram giving away the first prize trophy to Nandini Bedi for her film – Ambi Jiji’s Retirement
3. P Chidambaram giving away the first prize trophy for best student films to Megha Lakhani and Radhika Murthy

International Young Design Entrepreneur of the Year (IYDEY) Award 2007

Many of you knew about it. Now it’s official.

Dancing Moods – An Exhibition Of Paintings by Paromita & Sunando Basu

An exhibition of Eaintings by
Paromita & Sunando Basu
23rd February to 2nd March 2007 (Sundays closed)
11am to 6pm
at Creativegarh Art Gallery
37A ShahpurJat, New Delhi 110049

Cool Home Pages: Site Of The Week

Just came to know that Cool Home Pages has listed our website in their ‘Sites Of The Week’ section. This came as a very pleasant surprise. Check out our website.

A very special thanks and congratulations to the entire team at Arun Verma Design Studio. Deepak, Anil, Sunil: You guys rock!

Creativegarh Stall

The Creativegarh Art and Craft Gallery Stall at the ‘Festa of Lights’ organised by Akshay Pratishthan at the Swiss Embassy on Saturday, 14th of October 2006

Tomorrow’s B-School? It Might Be A D-School

Business schools are hooking up with design institutes — or starting their own.

Just a few days into an executive management course at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, Margaret J. Miller, a senior economist at the World Bank, found herself sitting at a table wearing heavy leather gloves and vision-obscuring glasses, trying to figure out how a person with a physical impairment might experience the process of wrapping a gift. The goal of the five-day Managing Teams for Innovation & Success (MTIS) course: to see the experience through new eyes. “With a few basic tools — just craft materials, really — people could actually start to think about things from different points of view and be creative,” says Miller.

Where to send managers to learn how to be creative is becoming an important issue for top executives. After all, the MBA is a degree in “administration,” and in a business world where creativity and innovation are at a premium, skills in administering organizations have less value. Read the complete article.

[Via Paavani on Creativegarh]

New Freelance and Fulltime Gigs For Creatives

Go to Creativegarh Project cafe

Shopping Cart Art

Dumped supermarket trolleys litter our rivers and canals. Now one artist is rescuing them, to create these incredible wire sculptures that celebrate our water wildlife…

Awesome work!

[Link via KM through email]

An Art And Craft Show By Creativegarh At Oxford Bookstore, New Delhi

Please to visit.

For a larger image, click here.

New Gigs For Storyboard Artists And Graphic Designers

Go to Creativegarh Project Cafe

Inviting Craft Artists, Metal Artists, Radio Professionals

New projects for creatives posted on Creativegarh Project Cafe. Check it out.

Presenting Creativegarh Project Cafe

A one-stop domain for projects, jobs, gigs and assignments in the ‘creative’ industry posted on the Creativegarh Forum.

Click here for the latest gigs.

Creativegarh Design Studio Requires Techie / Web Developer

I don’t like the idea of posting our openings on my blog but this time, we are a little desperate. So, if you know of someone who fits the bill, please forward this post to them and forward their details to me.

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Creativegarh Design Studio is a one-stop-creative-hotshop based in a small and cosy garage in Noida (NCR Delhi). We provide our clients in India, Europe and the USA with a host of creative services ranging from logo designs to setup and maintenance of e commerce engines. And while doing this, we also design film sets, exhibition stalls, shoes, furniture, bags, jewelry, curate art shows, make films – in a nutshell almost everything that interests us and comes our way.

We follow what we call the ‘film-production-model’ for design and development where depending on the requirements of a project, we pick up the best possible talent available (mostly from within the Creativegarh community) and work together till the logical conclusion of the project. And needless to say, if we bond and build a good rapport with a professional, we ensure that we work together, more often. In the process, we have built a very close-knit group of freelancers / professionals who are accessible to each other round the clock / when clients strike.

While we have proven to our clients many times over that our ‘film-production-model’ works best, we also have a small team in house that manages all projects and helps run the day to day development for existing clients. Even the inhouse team works on a very interesting retainership model. For this inhouse team, we need a full-time techie who is willing to work with us and take our dream forward.

Let’s start with what we expect from you:

a. You should have expert-level knowledge of current standards-based and open systems front-end *web* development techniques (hand-coded HTML, HTML forms, Javascript and CSS across various platforms and browsers).

b. You should have expert level knowledge of PHP / MySQL. It’ll be great if you are familiar with Perl / ASP / JSP.

c. You should have a good knowledge of various kinds of hosting environments required and should have the ability to integrate web front-ends with backend applications /databases through API’s provided.

d. Experience with setting up e-commerce engines and with open-source CMS’s such as Drupal and Typo3 is a plus plus plus.

Having said this, we’d like to reiterate that you needn’t know all this / everything but should be willing to learn and research on your own and provide a solution when required.

What we are really interested in is a ’solution’ attitude coupled with great skills.

You are free to work with us from our premises or yours and we’ll give you enough work to have your undivided attention. Even if you choose to work from your own premises, you should be open to come over to our office at a short notice.

Also, deadlines and quality are sacrosanct for us. So, we’d like you tofollow that as well.

Now, what can you expect from us? / Why should you work for us?

a. We love what we do. We work 18 hours a day, yet we have a life.

b. We work for international and Indian clients. We have exclusive tie-ups with VC companies and design houses in the US.

c. We do every possible design work.

d. We are a small team. So, we have no hang-ups about life. We all are coffee-boys and CEOs rolled into one.

e. When we work late nights, we take bread-omlette-maggi-and-tea-breaks at a roadside stall. So many times, we work late nights, just to have omlettes.

f. We try to take weekends off.

g. Our clients love us. Most of our clients become friends. Most of our friends become clients.

h. We work with young self motivated individuals who see themselves as successful entrepreneurs in the next 5 years.

i. We don’t go out and pitch for business. For us, the best business we get is one that comes from references. And repeat business.

j. We have an interesting payment model. What you earn depends on your value to the company. It’s a simple retainership + bonus + project percentage formula.

i. We’re always on your side. We’ll even fight for you.

Interested? Know someone who would be. Call me NOW on 9811214413! Or write to me.

Remember, we work 18 hours so most probably we’re up right now.

And yes, we are also looking for a junior web designer.

Wallace & Gromit Top Poll Creativity Poll

Wallace and Gromit are the art world’s most creative characters according to the surprise choice of 16-25 year olds in a survey. The cartoon favourites beat the Arctic Monkeys and the band Gorillaz into third place. Fourth place was awarded to “Society as a Whole,” leaving some hope still for the over thirties.

Schoolboy wizard Harry Potter was fifth, ahead of Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, singer-songwriter KT Tunstall and Oscar-nominated actress Keira Knightley. Big Brother and David Beckham made up the top 10.

The adventures of Wallace and Gromit have gained three Academy Awards for creator Nick Park and the pair’s latest caper, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, is a box office hit.

Read the complete story here.

Creativegarh Photoedit Battle Starts

Read the details here.