Itu Chaudhuri

Clear and present danger

Some innovations succeed to the point of redefining the problem they tackle

Distress signals

Distressing allows a way of perturbing the continuity of the surface without resorting to ornament

Everything that counts

On a scale of emotional temperatures, it doesn't get any hotter than the 2019 Indian election did

Little typefaces matter much

These great fashion brands originated in the Old World of Europe

Now trending

Community, mindfulness and warmth: a hopeful start to the New Year

Numb and number

Data become ever more plentiful by orders of magnitude, and interactive data visualisations ever more powerful

A seat at the high table

Stephen Doe's wall paintings illustrate with brutal clarity the symptoms of ebola

A league of ordinary gentlemen

Come summer, the armies gather their men for one last climactic campaign

Itu Chaudhuri: Physique

Physique creates stored meaning, or what we call an image, that can be exploited later

Itu Chaudhuri:The currency of design

Currency note must be durable and easy to handle especially by ATMs, says DOPE

Brand is UX, or something like that

There's an opportunity for brands to build themselves around superb interactions. But UX goes beyond digital, and so should banks

Nobel, Dylan and the twilight of authority

The Nobel's relevance has always derived from authority, its own and others'. Even the Peace Prize's popular recipients have been yoked to structures of authority

The street, the studio and us

Deep Design looks at the test result, treating the Swiss products as provocations

The law of clutters

Clutter promotes flexibility, avoids commitment, and keeps things moving - for today

Three ages of Olympic logos

Olympic logos support a strong, coherent brand, adapting its unchanging core to a dynamic world

We, the undersigned

All ministries use the Ashokan four-lion national symbol, but look at the meaningless variations in lettering, proportion and arrangement!

Making sense of election symbols

Eligible parties choose symbols from a library of hundreds of simplistic linear drawings of everyday household objects and animals, under conditions set by the EC