Door-to-door service

Today, my office library has visited my division for their Door-to-Door Service (read, a group of librarians push a trolley full of books and you can borrow any four books for two weeks). I LOVE THEIR VISIT! I took the opportunity to return the magazine I borrowed earlier (how cool is that? - they sent the magazine to you and they collect it from you when your are done reading it). If that does not make the laziest person to read at least one book in one year, I dont know what else does.

The interesting part of this service is the librarians not only bring books from our library, they are bringing books from the National Library's collection too!

I borrowed two books from the National Library. 

Keep it up library!

Magazine delivery

My office library will notify everybody via email on the latest magazine available in the library. We just have to pick up the phone, call them and the magazine of your choice will be delivered to your room within five minutes. I just got these delivered to me. Excellent service!

I missed this issue of The Economist earlier because I was away attending Research Methodology course for two weeks.

Work-life balance.

MyDesign : Megarafting Kufi - the process

Morning:
Received a message & invitation to be part of the Gift / Souvenir Committee.
Requested to design some souvenirs.
Agreed to kufi. Hyperventilated on the possible failure - but try to design anyway. They are my sweet and wonderful friends, I just couldnt say no without even trying.

Printed grid paper from the internet.
Made this in two hours. 

Evening:

Managed to finalise the kufi before going home. Phew! Didnt want to get nightmare at night. But still had a good dream on the possible design layouts and colour scheme - that is a normal dream for designers. lol.

The next day:
Beautify the kufi. Instead of linear, I designed a square one too.
(here)

Next next day:
The tumbler supplier emailed the design template.
Came out with one design using red watercolour background. The theme is red-white-black and some was suggesting red. So, instead of plain flat red, I opted for the one with texture and more character.

Posted in the WA group for crit session. They requested for more designs. So I came out with a few. And printed it so they could see the real size.

I will post the final tumbler design. I havent received the tumbler yet.

Delhi : Newspaper

I read the newspaper everyday in Delhi because:

1. They hanged it to my door every morning;

2. I tried to look wise carrying a newspaper to the office everyday. No;

3. I need to understand their economy; and

4. I didnt understand their news in the TV.

I love the Page One Plus. It is a small strip of paper glued to the rest of the newspaper that contains the editor's picked summaries of interesting news inside. Great idea.

Delhi : Brilliant signage

Restrooms in Gandhi Airport, Delhi.

Simply brilliant.