Cover for insight Books

Cover for Insight Books

Club de Lino

Softaware: Adobe PS CS4, Illustrator

This is i have done for a team those who planing to launch a linen Shirt Brand soon.

Slippers for free

Making of a LOGO

Software: Illustrator CS4

There is a trifling but painful  story behind the making of toonz.

Last year  I was so disappointed with  the fate of my previous company after a well-orchestrated financial fraudulence  by its CEO and owner. It failed miserably in the market due to financial irregularities and less transparency.

After achieving the award for a best expanding  retail  stores even at the time of recession, we met a harrowing time in our life. Widespread panic among professionals in Bangalore was visible.. Even reports were  coming about the suicides of employees in IT companies. We had no other way left except quit the company. We, a team of 18 people quit one day.  (the compensation promised is not paid even today.)  The same Split group planned a new company at the same segment in retail market. But due to the recession, our effort to draw financial assistance form any quarters haven’t met any success.  Our team mates  waited for the birth of the new company but it didn’t  draw any attention from venture capitalists or any other investors. .. One by one..  all aspirants of our new company have  joined in some other companies and a few left on board… my mind was losing confidence when anxiety about financial crisis soared.. and was resorting to  some self-emancipating smokes to tide over all the vagaries of the deluge of financial meltdown. We felt like everything around us built on capitalist speculations..  Doom day is coming..??? many of us opined like that.. A few left in our team , 3 directors, and a fashion designer, and a financial manager. I left to kerala by losing what ever I earned financially from  my Bangalore life. Selling everything ..from my T V to house hold utensils to my bike to……..i remember.. At least I left with my computer..my saviour..My closest pal..I couldn’t find anybody whom I helped financially in my good time to solace me, to mop my tears or at least to .…In kerala I reached as the same what I was before coming to Bangalore 6 years back  …for 8 months..I lived a gypsy, a nomad, a drunkard. A lover…an anarchist. Like an orphan’s life  in an unaccepted folk song…After 8 months….

 I have been called to Bangalore for a discussion  about the launch of our new company and to do the initial design works.  The name toonz  finalized and I have been asked to do some logo samples for toonz. Our concept was to get copy rights of iconic cartoon characters and design, produce and sell products for kids. So cartoon stuck in my mind and thought of doing some logo related to cartoon. I submitted the samples and we gone for voting. Apart from the voting I took all the samples to many kids to know which one they like most. The logo which got more votes from the kids and other teammates was finalized. The toonz was born… I am thankful to my 3 directors for giving me hope at all my difficult time.

Now Toonz Retail Indian Pvt Ltd, is where I am a solid part.

The ToonZ  logo is a blend of modernity and Innovation in kids retail segment. The stylized round font encapsulates the softness and tender feeling towards kids  and aims to showcase the magical experience of  international fashion at indian price. The two jelly balls in the logo shows the sweet candies which has been the much sought confectionery for kids. It creates an ambience more sweet for kids.  The Toonz epitomizes  fashion, Innovation, and  the over all kids mind,  and this has been astutely brought out in the look and tone of the identity conceptualized…

Now I breath perfectly  ….standing  on the debris of  the collapse of many  colossal  dreams, most of the cases it was  because of the unprecedented flood of financial crisis.  Now I can have a drink with you and take any challenge in my future. I am thankful to those who left me in lurch, and teaching me what a relation, a love affair, a friendship is…..and  making me experience what a  compassion of a hot breath and a wild kiss is…

Toonz theme

Software: Illustrator.

I did this them design for Toonz showrooms coming up in South india now.

Cartoons i drew manually and colored in software.

Sarovara

A Birth day Card for Toonz

Interior concept For Bar& Restaurant

This concept i have done for Sarovara.

Accidently we came across some incidents and got to know that this bar is in JP Nagar is for sale.

My friend is the manager and he given the news about the sale and we were desperately trying  for investors to buy this one which is in a dilapidated condition if we compare this to other bar & restaurants in Bangalore. But One of my other friend who fortunately  met a person related to asianet channel who agreed to invest money  after convincing that he is capable of v=bringing it uo form the troubled waters. Now  sarovara in jp nagar is a joind property of my find and his investor for 1.25 crores.

Who is that my lucky friend ?? I will disclose later. He asked me to give a new look for this old fashioned bar to something new and cost friendly. Here this is my concept.

Software: Illustrator  Cs4, Photoshop

Duration: 3 hour 

ADVT for Toonz

Software: Illustrator

Advt: For Toonz Retail India Ltd.

I have created the logo, character,  color theme and design elements to establish this brand in recent future.

Toonz is a kids brand for 0 to 12 years which design, produce and sell all merchandise for kids especially products based on iconic cartoon heroes. 

  

kick off in Kerala

world cup 2010

2010

Cafe Villa..Bangalore

"Over second and third cups flow matters
of high finance, high state, common gossip and low comedy". 
[Coffee] is a social binder,
a warmer of tongues, a soberer of minds,
a stimulant of wit, a foiler of sleep
if you want it so.  From roadside mugs
to the classic demi-tasse,
it is the perfect democrat.

    -Aanonymous-

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making of a logo

Green ROad

This is for Green Road….a green community…for those who are trying for an alternative lifestyle of less consumption and green politics, concerned of pollution what makes our cities suffocated. The core idea of green road is to reach to what ever available in our place as eco friendly and other alternatives to minimize the consumption of plastic " A soulless way of life" and reject the "run-of-the-mill"life in our deteriorating society .. green road will be an ensemble of families those who are not ready to accept the hoodwinks of capitalism, who understand the "commodity fetishism" and who willfully educate their children of how our mother earth is being devastated by chemicals, pesticides, and industrial waste…and who sympathise the feelings of the people's fight for the cause of mother earth.now I remember the song of Chris Rea…the road to hell..and hope any of Malayalam writers could do this…in Malayalam…
serch in you tube
“Road to hell”
Chris Rea


Well I'm standing by a river
But the water doesn't flow
It boils with every poison you can think of
And I'm underneath the streetlight
But the light of joy I know
Scared beyond belief way down in the shadows
And the perverted fear of violence
Chokes the smile on every face
And common sense is ringing out the bell
This ain't no technological breakdown
Oh no, this is the road to hell

And all the roads jam up with credit
And there's nothing you can do
It's all just bits of paper flying away from you
Oh look out world, take a good look
What comes down here
You must learn this lesson fast and learn it well
This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway
Oh no, this is the road
Said this is the road
This is the road to hell …

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Match the difference

Software: Adobe Illustrator

I tried to develop some theme design which have to be used in Toonkidz showrooms.

But it is not conformed that which one has to go to the floors. I ve taken one design element which i ve posted earlier, to use in a T shirt (really what i do for a fun.) Same design elements cropped and meticulously used in different style to get a feeling of a "riot of coloures ".

This can be used in different kind of accessories and stationery if it is placed deftly.

ഇനി വരില്ല നീ

കരളു കത്തുന്ന കവിത കൊണ്ടു ഞാന്‍

പ്രണയ വേദന എഴുതി വെക്കുന്നു

ചിതറി വീണൊരാ ചില്ലുപാത്രങ്ങളെ

ഒരു വിതുമ്പലാല്‍ ചേര്‍ത്തു വെക്കുന്നു

മുഖമുടഞ്ഞു തകര്‍ന്നു പോയ് നമ്മളാ

പഴയ കൂട്ടുകാര്‍ മാത്രമാകുന്നു

വെയിലു പോള്ളുന്നോരീ വിജന വീഥിയില്‍

ഇനി വരില്ല നീ.... ഇനി വരില്ല നീ

വറുതിയില്‍ നമ്മള്‍ ഒന്നിച്ചു പാടിയ

പഴയ ഗാനങ്ങള്‍ എല്ലാം മറന്നു പോയ്

വഴിയില്‍ നമ്മള്‍ തലോടി തലോടി

നിറമണിഞ്ഞ പൂ എന്നെ കൊഴിഞ്ഞു പോയ്‌..

ഇനി വരില്ല നീ എന്റെയീ മുറിയിലെ

പുക പിടിച്ചോരീ ഉന്മാദ രാത്രിയില്‍

വിഷ മുറഞ്ഞോരീ പ്രണയം കുടിച്ചുഞാന്‍

ഇനി വരില്ല നീ....ഇനി വരില്ല നാം...

happy xmas nd newyear

I wish all of my good freinds a happy xmas and

 a more lucky newyear...

Absence

In this painting
I draw your absence.
I wish to mark never,
The trees, withered leaves,
Scattered footpaths
But only your absence
Beach and the sea
Are two blank spaces.. for me..
Where I can draw
Only one tweaked line in between


The rows and columns
of the absence of flowers..
makes the shape of the next garden


on the bench and the tree shade,
on the leaves and in the ivy cage,
your absence, a blank space


so a layout…very new..
where I live in scared
I know scare a soothing feel..
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