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The ONLY Job…

… where clients take feedback from their 6-year-old, and expect you to incorporate her advice. I recommend this discussion board to anyone thinking of hiring a designer: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2218393664&topic=2844#topic_top If you don’t want to be on this board, take designers seriously, … Continue reading

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Urgent Appeal From the KaraFilm Festival Organizers

The KaraFilm Festival has suffered an underhanded blow by its sponsors, who waited until the last possible minute (15 days before the scheduled opening) to walk away from an event that has been instrumental in reviving Pakistani cinema. 4 days … Continue reading

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Design’s Conflict Zone

I wrote this over a year ago, when my blog had no readers, and I was writing for myself. Because I have recently become interested in organizing a Society of Graphic Designers into a standard-bearer for Pakistan, I hope to … Continue reading

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Corporate Double Standards

I am truly tired of a corporate culture that believes in stringing along vendors for payments. I design for a prominent group in Karachi, and in the six months of my agreement with them, getting payment for my and third-party … Continue reading

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Who’s designing your site?

Web Development companies in Pakistan are like grains of sand on the beach – innumerable. As a way to make a quick buck, to start up a company without overhead, and to succeed at it, web development tops the charts … Continue reading

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The Wider World

Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often) – Ovid As children, everything is new for us, and our observational skills develop, or retard, according to the level … Continue reading

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Celebrating Life in a Shopping Cart

Karachi, Pakistan – Summer 2006 The bilboards were supposed to have come down by now. Instead, we’re celebrating life in a shopping cart, in big letters on a green field, and amir’s filling his shopping cart with giant TV’s and … Continue reading

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