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 ago, the Festival Director began cutting back on merchandize, events and screening options for this [...]
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 revive dialogue on design, and maybe inject some life into a stale industry.
I spend some [...]
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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 services has been like pulling teeth.
This is the scenario: I get calls every day pressuring [...]
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 of most desirable career. Not to be confused with Web Design, web developers are the [...]
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 of curiosity we are allowed to display. Parents with social strictures, rules of etiquette and the [...]
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 telling us this is how to earn spiritual freedom. Doesn’t this offend anyone? 30 new channels [...]