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Tuesday 15 October 2013

Design Thinking

Baber Baig - June 2013

Design thinking is considered to be a creative and intelligent way of solving problems. It consists of practical methodology and processes. It is a human centered approach emerged from the general understanding of design as “way of thinking“. Design thinking has been a popular term since more than a decade, because of its ability to investigate, analyze, synthesize, and provide insights to create appropriate solutions. The term comprises both thinking and action to aim at one goal. Design thinking provides us a clear understanding to approach problems and solutions in the right direction.

Design thinking is currently an integral part of teaching and learning in higher education. The process invovles ethnographic research to empathize, and define, ideate, select and implement, and it further extends to the final evaluation of the outcome or design solution. Design thinking and processes are apparently simple yet quite complex in their true nature. As said by Jeffery Veen, Math is easy; design is hard.

There are two main directions invloved in design thinking: one is ‘divergent thinking’ and the other is ‘convergent thinking’. In the begining divergent thinking is applied by expanding the scope of research to acquire maximum information and a broad range of knowledge. The purpose of divergent thinking is going wide and exploring many possibilities and solutions. Convergent thinking is contrary to divergent thinking and applied to narrow down to the core and the single best design solution. Both ways of thinking are connected to one thread of design thinking to achieve expected results. The mode of a whole process is about bringing clarity and focus to the design activity.

In the contemporary world, design thinking goes beyond the technical usefulness and business tactics to understand human needs and help designers to become more innovative and creative. Intuition and aesthetics play a major role in the process of design thinking to create unique ideas and improve our lives and the world around us.

Design thinking is not just a task of creating designs but to encourage responsible behavior in designers, because their role in society is very important. Designers become conscious of the consequences their designs have, and consider design ethics in design practice in a serious manner.

Today is the age of information overload and the messages that designers create, reach everywhere in the world. There is subconscious and psychological effect of visual material on people’s minds and their lives. Designers learn to take responsibility of the effect and shape development to stimulate change for a new and better world.

“Good design is good design thinking”.

Wednesday 17 July 2013

Reduce to the Max

Photography

Size: 66 x 100 cm | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
Size: 66 x 100 cm | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
Size: 66 x 100 cm | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
Size: 66 x 100 cm | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
Size: 66 x 100 cm | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art






Tuesday 28 May 2013

The Spectacle




'Living Spirit'
Size: 9 x 14 inches | Medium: Digital Collage | Genre: Painting
'I Love Pakistan'
Size: 9 x 14 inches | Medium: Digital Collage | Genre: Painting

'The Lantern'
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches | Medium: Digital Collage | Genre: Painting
'In Search of...'
Size: 24 x 24 inches | Medium: Digital Collage | Genre: Painting

'Kanwan Wali Sarkar' (Saint of Crows)
Size: 32 x 45 cm | Medium: Mixed | Genre: Painting








Thursday 23 May 2013

Untitled



Size: 3 x 3 feet | Medium: plastic tape and enamel on board | Genre: painting



Wednesday 22 May 2013

Alif



Size: 12 x 12 inches | Medium: collage on board | Genre: painting

Size: 12 x 12 inches | Medium: collage on board | Genre: painting

Size: 18 x 18 inches | Medium: collage on board | Genre: painting







Sunday 19 May 2013

Silence of the Visible Murmur


Everything has a unique consciousness and consists of matter with energy flowing through elementary particles of the universe. Energy is merely physical but soul a living phenomenon residing inside the body of forms. All matter therefore becomes conscious on different levels. Since all matter comes designed from the same basic elements and from one source of origin, it remains a silent witness of the whole existence, and I have attempted to capture that visible and talking silence in my frames.


'Black Hole'
Size: 13 x 30 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'Two Red'
Size: 36 x 53 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'Twenty Nine'
Size: 36 x 58 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'Banana'
Size: 18.5 x 30 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'At Gaze'
Size: 20 x 30 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'Dome of the Rock'
Size: 20 x 30 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'Self Portrait'
Size: 20 x 30 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'Dancing Spheres'
Size: 20 x 30 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'The Center'
Size: 20 x 30 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'Beyond the Pole'
Size: 8.5 x 30 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'You Can Not See Me'
Size: 20 x 30 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'Rear View'
Size: 20 x 30 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'Black Square'
Size: 20 x 30 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'I Am Not Allowing You'
Size: 20 x 19 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'True Answers'
Size: 30 x 20 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'The Drift'
Size: 30 x 20 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'Up and Down'
Size: 30 x 20 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'In the Line of...'
Size: 30 x 20 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art

'This is Your Choice'
Size: 30 x 20 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'Fireworks'
Size: 30 x 20 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'Life and Death'
Size: 30 x 20 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'The New Life'
Size: 30 x 20 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'The Stroke'
Size: 30 x 20 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'Flouting Six'
Size: 30 x 20 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art
'We are Together'
Size: 30 x 20 inches | Medium: Photography | Genre: Art