Pecha Kucha Night Pune – Vol 1.
Couple of hours to go before the first Pecha Kucha Night in Pune, and all of us at Sarvasva Designs were going crazy over looping all presentations and checking, rechecking the same. Mukund, my co-Director at Sarvasva was at the venue with Manasi and setting up the screen, checking [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Pecha Kucha Night, Pune. Vol- 1. A review.
Posted in Blogroll, Design and Architecture, tagged India, Sarvasva, Sarvasva Designs, Darpana Athale, Mukund Athale, Shrikant Nivasarkar, PKN, Pune Mirror, Pune Pecha Kucha Night, Pankaj Sapkal, Suhas Deo, Sunand Prasad, Penoyre & Prasad, Sunanda Mehta, Indian Express Newsline, Nidheesh Tyagi, Falguni Gokhale, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Varsha Gavandi, Akisetti Ramprasad Naidu, Christopher Benninger, CCBA, Klein and Dytham architecture, Mark Dytham, Astrid Klein, Tokyo, Sanjeev Joshi, calligraphy, chair, diet and creativity, orchids, poetry, Kathak dance, Kaveri Agashe, Sheetal Kolwalkar, Chinese Gardens, art, painting, Greenland, Crystal Palace on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chatty Tales
Posted in Design and Architecture on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chatty Tales
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Pune Pecha Kucha Night- vol 1
Posted in Blogroll, Design and Architecture, tagged India, Indian Express Pune Newsline, Pecha Kucha Night, Pune, Pune Mirror, Sarvasva Designs, Vol 1 on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Indian Express paper carried a review of the Pune Pecha Kucha Night -vol 1. The first article in the papers today…. the captions are a bit mixed up, and the paper is carrying an apology for the same. Nevertheless, the article carries the essence of the event very well.
The Pune Mirror too carried a [...]
Pune’s first Pecha Kucha Night
Posted in Blogroll, Design and Architecture, tagged Pecha Kucha Night, PKN, Pune, Sarvasva Designs on October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sarvasva Designs welcomes all to attend the first Pecha Kucha Night in Pune. We have a wonderful mix of designers, artists, architects, journalists, environmentalists and more… making this night one full of great insights, inspirations and interactions!
To know more, see the link or write to pknpune@gmail.com; and also see http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/pune/1/
`Pecha Kucha’ or PKN as it [...]
Termites In The Woodwork
Posted in Blogroll, Design and Architecture, tagged COA, Council of Architecture India, India on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The government has accused top officers at the COA, India’s apex architectural body, of criminal misconduct. BRIJESH PANDEY tracks the issues as the CBI investigates.
IN A move that could change the face of the study and practice of architecture in India, the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) has recommended a CBI probe against the [...]
Spreading good design.
Posted in Blogroll, Design and Architecture, tagged Ambrish Arora, architecture, design, India, Interior design, Product Design, Shrikant Nivasarkar, Teaching on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A person’s passion, dedication and greatness can be often seen and need not be spoken for. In fact the respect that is seen for someone is more evident when that person need not shout to be heard, need not speak to be asked, and need not order to get things going.
I have the privilege of [...]
Brands- the rise and fall.
Posted in Design and Architecture, tagged Apple, architecture, Brand, brand-build, branded, branding, cell phones, computers, design, Fashion, form follows function, furniture, India, innovation, Nokia, responsible design on October 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I teach at two architecture colleges in Pune and Mumbai- subjects being Design and Architecture Journalism, the latter being a course set up by me about 6 years back, and I think as of now I am still the only one teaching this subject in the country. Anyway, this post is not about what I [...]


