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दिल तो बच्चा है जी

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

पिछले कुछ दिनों से मेरा कवि (read as कौवा ) मन कविता लिखने के लिए बेकरार था और इश्किया फिल्म का गाना दिल तो बच्चा है जी सुनके मेरा कवि मन जाग उठा और आपके सामने ये कविता प्रस्तुत है … किसी भी त्रुटि के लिए क्षमा करें
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ऐसी लागी भूख जो मिटती ही नहीं
दांत से बासी रोटी कटती नहीं
उम्र कब की बरस के सुफैद हो गई
कारी दाल चने की पचती नहीं
वल्ला ये गैस बढ़ने लगी है
चेहरे की रंगत उड़ने लगी है
डर लगता है ऑफिस में सोने में जी
दाल तो अच्छा है जी – २
थोडा कच्चा है जी
दाल तो अच्छा है जी – २
ऐसी लागी भूख जो मिटती ही नहीं
दांत से बासी रोटी कटती नहीं
उम्र कब की बरस के सुफैद हो गई
कारी दाल चने की पचती नहीं
रा रा रा …

किसको पता था बाजू में बैठा
colleague ऐसा पाजी भी होगा
हम तो हमेशा समझते थे कोई
हम जैसा फर्जी ही होगा
हाय जोर करें, कितना शोर करें,
मेरी स्क्रीन पे ऐंवे गौर करें
boss सा कोई कमीना नहीं
कभी तो रोके, कभी तो टोके,
इस उम्र में खिलायेगा धक्के
डर लगता है facebook chat करने में जी
दिल तो बच्चा है जी – २
थोडा कच्चा है जी
हाँ दिल तो बच्चा है जी

ऐसी उदासी बैठी है दिल पे
हंसने से घबरा रहे है
सारा साल कामचोरी में काटा
appraisal में टकरा गए है
mail आता है तो ऐसे लगता है वो
आ रहा है यहीं देखता ही न वो
recession की मारें कटार रे
तौबा ये लम्हें कटते नहीं क्यूँ
आँखें मेरी खुलती ही नहीं क्यूँ
डर लगता है timepass करने में जी
दिल तो बच्चा है जी – २
थोडा कच्चा है जी
हाँ दिल तो बच्चा है जी

– कवि देव

Business Card Design

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Recently my visiting card got selected to be featured on the website http://www.cardonizer.com/ as one of the most creative business cards. I had not submitted the card to them but they themselves asked me if they could feature it. And I was more than happy. They also asked me few questions related to card, like what inspired, material and more designs. I had already planned to blog about the card. But then this thing happened before my plan could be executed. (For the past few months, I have not been allowed to be LAZY)

Visiting

So what inspired the card. When I started with the idea of the card. I had two things in mind, one it should be SIMPLE, and second it should connect to the heart. My website name had already been decided by then (http://cam-dev.in ), so I decided that my card will be a camera, a simple camera. So the first criteria got fulfilled, now the next task was to make it connect.

My 2year old nephew had a role to play in this, he had this nice toy camera and when I would go to my sisters place, he would relate to me with the camera. Whenever he saw that I was carrying a bag he would say khichik-khichik (click-click, his term for the camera) and try to see me through the viewfinder … so the idea was a simple camera with a viewfinder to see the world. So the front of my card was cam with dev written on it. (which made it relate to my website cam-dev). And while reading the contact information you could see the world through the viewfinder.

I designed the first draft in Adobe Photoshop (A mistake, as I am not really a design expert), then I was asked to convert it to vector format by the PrintXpress people.
My first design had a simple ring to denote the lens. It got reviewed by few of my friends and then I got it printed. It did not look like a lens and the card looked too empty. Also I had chosen 40% black for the contact details, which looked very light after print and it was not legible. So the card design was updated with a lens glare and color change for the contact details. I decided to go for the thickest sheet possible(280gsm ivory) , so that the card was more durable. Also the person at PrintXpress was quite helpful in doing the selection.

In between I had got 200 cards printed in Mumbai, hoping to distribute them when I went to Kingfisher Calendar Launch party. But I just gave 5 cards. So I decided that I will get the rest punched too. When I was collecting the cards from PrintXpress, then one gentleman asked me if he could have one for his collection. And I happily agreed.

**Update:
Its also featured here
Also featured at here