Comix.India Volume One! On Sale Now!

Finally! After months of getting in submissions, designing the cover and inner pages, and compiling everything together, the magazine is out, on sale, on Pothi.com!

the front cover + back cover preview

13 stories by 16 contributors, in 268 glorious black & white pages!

Website: Everstone Capital online

The revamped website for Everstone Capital was launched on Monday. This was a collaboration with Sudeep, over at Moving Stones.

Click here, or on the image above, to view the site.

COMIX.INDIA - The self-published black & white comics anthology

(Update: The CDBi forums are no more. It's all been integrated with the Comix.India website.)

It's an exciting time to be involved with the local comics scene. There's a new comics anthology on the cards, and it's titled COMIX.INDIA. It's being edited by Bharat Murthy and designed by me.

(download a hi-res printable image here)

The magazine's features are:
- Black & White pages, with a color coer
- Size: 7"x9"
- Page count: 250-300

This is a completely fan-driven venture, with no commercial backing. Anybody can contribute content. It won't be available at the shops. It'll only be available online at Pothi.com, a print-on-demand site. Since there's no initial investment needed here, there's no real risk of commercial failure.

Get more details at the COMIX.INDIA forum.

Website: Ravi Udyawar Films online

After a lot of work, edits, and revision, the spankin' new website for Ravi Udyawar Films, one of India's premier ad-film production house, is finally online.

Click Here Or On The Image Above To View The Website

Logo designs for the Project C initiative

Two tentative logos I created sometime back for the Project C comic magazine that's in the works.

Option A: A custom-made font, composed of blocks. The logo can be extended to comfortably accomodate info like the issue number, date etc.

Option B: The circles on top can be seen as a depiction of the half-tone process used in a lot of color printing (though, truthfully speaking, this could use a little refinement).

Twitter bgs

Hmm, I meant to post this before, but it slipped my mind. I whipped up a quick twitter bg for my uncle's twitter page.

A custom bg for my twitter page too. Whatdya know, it's raining bottles!

Boli Lagao! India's first paise-auction site starts now!

My latest project to go live - designs for Boli Lagao, India's first paise-auction site. A friend of mine is a partner in the venture. I've created the logo for for their venture, and have also coded and uploaded their teaser website. Sign-up, and you can start bidding soon!

Center align your webpage!

I recently designed a site that was self-contained within 950px by 500px. Looked real good as a photoshop template. Converting it to html however, was a bitch. Turns out, there's native support for horizontal centering, but no code whatsover to align the entire site vertically central!

So I turned to google, the first and obvious answer to each and every question. I got a whole lot people complaining about this, and rightfully so, but no easy solution. There were a few real complicated workarounds using a mish-mash of css, javascript, and flash, but those were a headache to decipher and adapt. I was rather surprised at this roadblock, because I was sure I'd done it before.

And then, it hit me. Flash. Hah! You see, Macromedia (now Adobe) Flash has this option where you can export your file directly as an html page containing the swf. And you can center-align the file! Awesome! So all I had to do was replace that code with mine, and I had a real easy solution to the problem!

Recapping:
1) Make a document in flash, any size.
2) Go to Publish Settings, check the html option.
3) Head over to the new html tab. Keep the "flash alignment: vertical and horizontal" options to center & center.
4) Publish the file. You'll get an html page, where the swf is centrally aligned, and a .js file.
5) Open the html file in notepad or Dreamweaver, and simply replace the swf with your desired code. Voila, centre-aligned! Works with IE, Opera, and Firefox. You can safely delete the .js file and the javascript too!

Welcome to me!

KAILASH IYER dot COM is live!

No more need to send across pdfs to prospective clients. It's all on the net!

Best seats in the house? At the Front Stall!

Front Stall Pictures is a-go!

Here's a preview of the site:

This design is a continuation of the design I used for the visiting card, meant to convey a sense of nostalgia for days of old, when movie tickets used to be stubs.

Art Online

The final edits have been made to the Cariya Breemen website, and it is now fully functional, with no more "coming-soon" sections. The site is her online portfolio, and it showcases her art under three main sections:

1) Visual Art - Her paintings, mixed-media work, and art installations.

2) Couture Art - One-of-a-kind designer clothes, often a direct translation of her paintings, a sort of "wearable art", if you must.

3) Culinary Art - Her newest endeavour, exotic food items prepared for special occasions and events

Major edits on the site are:
- New write-ups for all sections
- Images added to the the "Couture Art" sub-sections
- New "Culinary Art" page added, with text and pictures

The Fire Still Burns...

I recently met a bunch of guys, who, like most of the people in the city, seemed more or less disillusioned with the whole Political Circus that keeps playing out all around, perhaps most easily accessible on your local "news" channel. They've decided to step up and try and make a change in the attitude of people. While this whole excercise was initially geared towards getting people to vote, that space was already cluttered. So they're kinda hoping to just make people more aware of their civic right, and become less apathetic.

As a first step, they've recorded a song and uploaded it on their website, that went live a few days back.

I'm, as of right now, working with them on deigns. Phase one includes a logo design, and a basic, functional website, primary for hosting the song, and getting people to sign-up for their cause. Check it out.

Coffee on the Net

The new, redesigned Paddy's Coffee website went live some time back. I'd been working on this for quite some time, though most of if was spent of communicating changes and making edits. It's done now, and a very good coffee shop finally has (what i hope will be perceived as) a pretty neat, matching website.

Check it out - http://www.paddyscoffee.com