tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26407195311706518632011-12-15T10:43:18.195+08:00design and technology: improving the physical worldstudiokumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08626802061273917480noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2640719531170651863.post-28436889817426722372008-03-31T00:05:00.003+08:002008-03-31T00:16:45.667+08:00

Magnolia on Tree, Shanghai Spring is here, sort-of, and some flowers are blooming. This magnolia is on a tiny tree in our housing compound. The tree is completely covered with these amazing blossoms. No leaves yet, just flowers.I experimented with different illumination schemes but used a classic diffuse white umbrella key light with some hard, snooted rimlight to help separate it from the

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The Foghorn Magazine, Banner Ad This week I had a nice chance to do some graphic design. This is my first effort at a banner ad for my wife's wonderful and hilarious web magazine, The Foghorn. She plans to feature the ad on Dinosaur Comics, among other places. Powered by the economically interesting Project Wonderful ad service.The ad is only 117x30 pixels in the "button" size, which is minuscule

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CRAFT Article Cover Photo For those of you DIY/crafty types, you will be able to see an article in CRAFT volume 06 that my wonderful wife Summer wrote here. It was a collaborative effort; I was the photographer. I recommend CRAFT and its nerdier brother MAKE for excellent projects, page design, and yes, photography. This article teaches you how to make your own coloring book using Photoshop. So

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Cromwell - My Small Dog I have recently become interested in using small hot-shoe flashes for improvised studio-style photography. The model is my inimitable if annoying dog. Shot with a single Nikon SB-80DX and an umbrella. Inspired by David Hobby's excellent Strobist.

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Hello! After a long process all weekend, all my pictures on flickr are tagged and described. Please take a look through them through my website, or on my flickr page. Let me know if you see any typos or errors in the tags or captions. There are travel photos, flash photos, as well as my published photos.With that out of the way, it should be a good, productive week for blogging!

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As you probably have not noticed, I have updated the design of the blog. I could not follow my own advice... But I think it looks nicer, more consistent with my website and less like a default blogger template.In more important news, I have uploaded all of my 2007-present photos to my flickr site and I am in the process of adding tags and organizing them. I am trying to be a picky photo editor

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Hello! This will be the first in a series of short essays I will write to muse on different technical and philosophical subjects as they relate to product design, technology, and life in general.why you should do a shoddy jobor, "when good enough is best"March 2008 by Dev KumarstudiokumarI am a perfectionist. While this may be a cute answer to an interviewer's question, "What is your greatest

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Hello! I have completed a major website update with the help of my wonderful wife Summer. All of the major sections are functional and have some content. These sort of projects are when I pay dearly for disorganization - photos and project descriptions on dozens of hard drives and CDs (some of which are failing or semi-functional); thousands of files heaped together in great festering piles. Well

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Welcome to studiokumar! This blog is a companion to studiokumar.com and serves to provide supplementary news and commentary to the more static content on my main web site. Thanks for visiting, and please feel free to contact me for comments, questions, and the like.

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