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• Jayesh Sivan



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• Hidden Symbols and Communication
• “Monster Kids” an illustrated font.
• My Village and My City.
• 100 ways to Die…



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Hidden Symbols and Communication Written on July 20, 2009, by jayesh.

Hidden Symbols and Communication

As a traveler when you are new to a place, it’s hard to find out some important landmarks like school, temple. At this point you tend to seek help from the people and try to find out the landmarks. They reply back saying

1. “If you take right and again take a right from banyan tree, you can find school”

2. “If you take left and again take a left from banyan tree, you can find temple over there”

3. “If you take left and go straight from the banyan tree you can go to village office”

What I observed here is banyan tree is single point of contact to all landmarks i.e a signage. But, in the absence of the second person the complexity in identifying the places is a major problem for a person. The question remains how we can identify directions, landmarks with very ease and effective without any assistance.

Here comes the importance of man-made signage, which reduces the efforts made by a person and can easily navigated to the destination. Also, my emphasis is also placement on appropriate signage in appropriate places. Through this we knocked out unwanted elements from the design. But, the banyan tree still there to help you as a hidden symbol to give directions to school, colleges, hospital and temples.

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Some things are unnoticed though a lot of thought processes were put in to create them. One such example is Scare crow.

Scare crow basic motive is scare birds and protect the farm, it’s been practices from various generations. Though the form or shape of scare crow used in different part of the world are different they serve the same purpose. Studying these various forms it-self gives you the insights of cultural attributes of that region. They depict the varied skills and cultural understanding of the people in that era or a region. But when we look at it from a visual communication point of view it carries the same message of warning though we have different language’s to communicate.

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One interesting warning sign or signal which is never done by a designer and widely accepted is the use of red fluorescent dot on the wooden logs carried in trucks.

These signals never need typography or pictograms to tell its significance. With a small dot element one is able to convey the message. One is not aware of the distance that he/she has to maintain while traveling back of the truck, but still the red fluorescent dot is effective enough to convey that.

We see a lot of unnoticed communication elements used in our life, but no one perceives it. That is why i like to call them as “Hidden Symbols“.

“Monster Kids” an illustrated font. Written on May 10, 2009, by jayesh.

I remember, that was a weekend, and a friend of mine, invited me to his house for lunch. When I went there I could see that he was doing one painting. After the dine we both sat for sometime and we were looking at his painting.

Inspired by his activity even I felt like sketching something. I took some Indian ink, a brush and a sheet of paper from his account. And I started scribble something, some types and images. I don’t know, the letters formed the shapes of some creatures. I can call them as “monsters”, but somehow very childish character they had. I felt very interesting when I continue to create more and more monsters from all the alphabets. I filled my paper with full of different monster. But still they are all letters.

After I came back from my friend’s house I continued to do the same thing as creating more and more monsters from all the letters. At last I could realize that I have completed a glyph of English font and named it as “Monster Kids”

My Village and My City. Written on January 22, 2009, by jayesh.

I don’t know when is the last time I saw the shining stars, the moon, and the floating white pillows in the sky. I can’t remember when is the last time I really had a chat with them, and laugh at them…

Being a part of the city life am very fast. Am running fast all the time… The situations, circumstances, everything pushing me to function like machine.

The only worry is that, am really missing that singing of my loving birds. When I was a kid in my village I really look at them, I studied them and they really inspired me… My mom always tells that I will become a bird watcher in my life… but that didn’t happen. I love to be in a world to draw the things that inspired me.

There are lots of people who really got a chance to enjoy the beauty of these fascinating wonders of nature. But as being part of the city life when they are going for a team outing, I can see people who are saying “awesome”, “awesome lake”, But the fact is that all of these awesome things in the city are not with natural beauty. When they were kid and when they were enjoying these natural beauties at their village they don’t even say anything. You know, they just jump in to the river and enjoying their life and become a part of that river.

Everything is Mechanical. Instead of my birds, butterflies and natural wind, there come the world discoveries as, computers, mouse, keypad, laptops and Mobiles. I can here the sound of that machines everyday.

I don’t know, am just comparing these two. For a living we have to combine both. But there are certain people they prefer to live only with the real natural beauty. Don’t think they don’t have any ambition or any purpose in their life… yes they have… Live a life with peace of mind and love others… and serve others… of-course that is their aim.

100 ways to Die… Written on September 20, 2008, by jayesh.

There is only one way to be born, but there are hundred ways to die.

Last week when i was just thinking about something, abruptly “life” is come in to my mind. What is life…What you want from life… What you will get from life… and what would be the final stage.. and how it will be… these are the distressing factors which came in to my mind.

What i understand so far is, when you born or at the time of birth.. there would be an extreme silence… you can visualize that… the complete silence… but in the course of life each and every person will struggle a lot to get a better life… yes every day we are aiming at a good future… that means every day is dying…we are looking at future…and dying every day… someone will become a good designer, someone will become a doctor, engineer, manager, priest…

What is the final stage of all these…?  The extreme silence…the complete blankness.

When somebody is not ready to struggle… and not willing to live… and he doesn’t have any ambition to live… they are escaping from all these struggles and going to the extreme emptiness very early…

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