Mandar Apte

UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Category: Art And Design

Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, usually involving imaginative or technical skill. Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams and sewing patterns). Design has different connotations in different fields. In some cases the direct construction of an object (as in pottery, engineering, management, cowboy coding and graphic design) is also considered to be design.

  • Designed on Mac & Designing on Something Else

    Few points that I recognize that are important while experiencing design process on Mac & Something else called PC… Those are as follows

    Designed on Mac

    1. Mac has factory Calibrated display
    2. Square looks Square & Rectangle looks Rectangle & not other way around
    3. 15% black has identity on display & which is recognizable
    4. It has world class Industrial Design working for you
    5. It’s a style statement while using it
    6. No compatibility problem while working in group
    7. You know your design will look exactly as it is on every mac
    8. ‘Designed on Mac’ is kind of branding itself for your work for quality
    9. You have full control on your machine not other way round
    10. Has kind of hardware insurance as an ‘Apple Care’ program
    11. Almost clean workspace
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  • One Designer’s Problems Having MBA person as his Project Manager

    1. MBA Person thinks he own all work & credit of the same work as his own not the artist… because he thinks by giving suggestions & corrections he owns the artwork as his intellectual property…
    2. Because of the earlier point MBA person thinks he owns the salary increment & not the artist for work done by the artist.
    3. Manager thinks he should get at least 7 options for design problem & Designer thinks what the F
    4. When Designer say to MBA guy we need specialist in development but MBA person thinks otherwise & ask’s then “What’s Your Use?”
    5. Designer thinks about himself as he is designer… & he has to learn a lot about design
    6. MBA persona thinks about himself as he is BOSS… & he knows everything about design
    7. Designer is Designer but MBA person is Boss + Designer
    8. MBA person thinks Photoshop can do anything I mean almost everything… but designer says I need Illustrator or CorelDRAW
    9. One fine day MBA guy learns about GIMP & he thinks our designer should adopt GIMP than investing lot money on Photoshop
    10. MBA degree earns the respect & Designer degree has do lot of work…
  • Integrating Social & Professional Networking Badges & Google Adsense Ads in WordPress Blog using Dynamic Sidebar

    Following method will work with both Social & Professional Networking Badges i.e. Scripts you get from Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Likedin & Google Adesense Ads scripts to integrate it with your wordpress website blog’s dynamic sidebar.

    Few Important things that I considered here that you are ready with
    You have sign in to & have administrative access of wordpress blog
    You have badge code that you got from Facebook or Twitter or Flickr or Linkedin.
    You are ready with Adsense’s Ad code & Your account is active.

    Steps to integrate with Dynamic Sidebar with Theme Widget Support
    First if not integrate Dynamic Sidebar within your plugin
    here is the link to do that

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  • My List of Animation Books an Animator should buy

    Here is the my list of book an animation enthusiast should have & books professional swear by…

    Books listed below are all present in my own collection, it help me so to pursue animation & that’s why I am writing this post that can help you…

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  • How IT Company or Upcoming Animation Company’s Design Supervision Department Functions

    Here is details of How IT Company or Upcoming Animation Company’s Design Supervision Departments Works or Fail to Work

    1. They decide everything even video editing on phone
    2. They try to find defects in you & your work so that you can improve on that
    3. They have so many hidden salary structure rules that when you find about that rules you just can’t stop laughing you find this when your actually salary totally differs from salary on the paper
    4. They have think tank discussing about future of design in their company where designer’s presence is not required
    5. They pay designer a salary structure of house keeper of their company
    6. They will find 5 main defects in your design but they will be unable to find 15 advantages of your design
    7. They will ask you one day their main query about design i.e. Dude What is Pixel?
    8. When you tell them about h264 codec they think it sounds like H2SO4
    9. When you tell them about h264 they think wmv is best format you can get on personal computer
    10. They think Pentium P4 is ideal machine to do video editing for designer
    11. The IT company has grade system to evaluate it’s employees but designer for that matter only fits in bottom first
    12. They want you to join them as trainee for first five months without getting paid for anything then they want you to sign Agreement or Bond with them for not leaving the company & then if you ask them how much you will get for that they say Rs. 3,000 to Rs. 4,000 per month, then you get the feeling what you want to do now…!!!
    13. They try to use 5 year old technology for their day to day work
    14. They think designers die to work in their companies

    So finally It really sucks to do job in IT company or Upcoming Animation company where being designer fetch no value…!!!

  • Learning Web Design & Graphic Design on Personal Computer

    I know the day the I got my first windows based computer.

    In few days or so I started learning to design through computer using CorelDraw & Photoshop… as it was more popular in those days & as it is today. But mind you it was not long ago as it was year 2002-03.

    I read somewhere on web If you want to learn web design compare two technology giants’ websites i.e. Microsoft.Com & Apple.Com

    & Yes it was brilliant suggestion made…

    So I got to know one phenomenon called WYSIWYG, acronym for What You See Is What You Get. I started using Microsoft Frontpage to edit & design websites. I used to use Tables to design content with. But I got to know that there is something CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) & DIV tags. But it was not until year 2007 I started to learn CSS & Year 2010 I started to learn about DIV tags.

    Today I have website powered with WordPress (CMS – Content Management System) Designed through CSS & DIV tags.

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  • Blogger’s Life on Net & in General

    Hi All, I am listing down few points that will help you to find out blogger around you…

    1. A person who writes on his website & doesn’t know is there somebody will read it or not is blogger’s real life situation…
    2. He who integrate Google Analytics in to his blog & visit analytics site every other day is blogger…
    3. He who activate ‘Akismet’ on his wordpress blog… & day after he who swears by it is blogger…
    4. He who say ‘Thank You!’ to google at night before going to bed for traffic to his website is blogger…
    5. He who thinks someday he will go out & have normal social life as his same age friends have is blogger…
    6. He who thinks having Macintosh as his main machine even for website development is blogger…
    7. He who thinks Macintosh’s boot up chime is sign of presence of life is blogger…
    8. He who has social life only on net through Facebook, Twitter is blogger…
    9. He who thinks there is life on different IP address is blogger…
    10. He who knows IP address of his closed friend is blogger…
    11. He who doesn’t know full form of word IP Address is blogger…
    12. He who remembers IP address of his domain name by heart is blogger…
    13. He who use share host for his website & thinks someday he will transfer & use dedicated server for his website is blogger…
    14. He who use iTunes to play music at background while he is working & doesn’t remember what last song was playing & to find out the same he opens iTunes window is blogger…
    15. He who face design obstacle while creating design on computer & after finding solution for the same thinks it would good subject for next tutorial article for his blog is blogger…
    16. He who uses all possible Apple.Inc products & finally thinks why Apple is not designing T Shirts for him so that it will be in sync with his computer peripherals is blogger…
    17. He who thinks having his own domain name is real world style statement is blogger…
    18. He who wake up early & then next second open desktop Twitter Client for updates & latest news even before brushing his teeth is blogger…
    19. He who uses his computer built in camera to comb his hair so that he will save time & work more instead of turning towards mirror is blogger…
    20. He who follows minimum 10 design blogs & subscribe to their RSS feeds & Newsletters is sign of blogger…
    21. He who only interacts with people through facebook comments is blogger…
    22. He who owns desktop pc to tweet from home, laptop to tweet from hotel & internet enabled phone to tweet from bus is blogger…
    23. He who thinks of breaking next big paradigm shift to write new blog itself is blogger…
    24. He who attends minimum two technology company’s seminar of new product launch is blogger…
    25. He who uses bicycle instead of scooter for traveling is hint of blogger within…
    26. He who thinks he would prefer another Apple Computer over brand new bike is also a blogger…

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  • Happy Valentine’s Day!!!

    Happy Valentine’s Day to all Art & Design Lovers…

    It’s great to be from Art Community…!!!

    This day reminds me my journey with Art & How I fall in love with it doing drawings… when I was a child… & still in love with it, concepts have changed media are different…

    But still in love…!!!

    I hope, I will keep doing my work & keep enjoying the process of creating artworks – designing for people.

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  • “How to Learn Animation?” – While Browsing a web & while doing Social Networking

    Are you familiar with this Questions?

    “How to learn Animation?”, “How to do animation correctly?”, “What tools should I use to do animation?”, “Should I learn 2D Animation or 3D Animation? What is the best?”, “What is 3D Animation?”

    If yes, then this article is for you! – As saying goes “If there is a will, there is a way”, It is true here…

    Yes, You can Learn About & how to do Animation while you are online, browsing a web & while doing social networking…

    Her are some of the links I found useful for learning Animation through the world wide web.

    Wikipedia Animation Links

    1. Movie Making Manual
    2. Film Making
    3. Animation Techniques
    4. Animation

    Podcasts

    1. The Animation Podcasts: Website Link, iTunes Podcast Link, RSS Feed Link
    2. Spline Casts: Website Link, iTunes Podcast Link
    3. Toon In: Website Link, iTunes Podcast Link
    4. The Animation Conversation: Website Link, iTunes Podcast Link
    5. Conversation on Animation: iTunes Podcast Link
    6. Vancouver Film School Animation & VFX: Website Link, iTunes Podcast Link
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  • Few Important Tips to Designers & Flash Animators

    (I assume that you are well versed with design terms & design applications)

     Three Important Tips to Adobe Flash Animator while preparing 2D animations for E-Learning Courseware OR for Web

    1st Tip

    Use Movie Clips to place object on stage, use movie clips to place text, vector objects or image on stage when you want to animate it

    2nd Tip

    (Importance of Tip #01)

    Don’t create Tween in Library If you are using Flash older version than Adobe Flash CS5 because that create problems while using Action Script

    3rd Tip

    (Importance of Tip #01 & Tip #02)

    When you place & animate movie clips on stage, contains of those movie clips can be replaced without affecting animation e.g. If your movie clips has animation on stage & it contains vector graphic with color red, the same red color can be changed to blue or you can replace even whole vector graphic to anything without affecting animation as this animation not creating any tween in library.

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