YUNOVA Stories
People who built their skillsजिन लोगों ने अपने skill खुद बनाए
True stories of people who built a skill step by step, written from public sources, and where you can start on the same skill for free.ऐसे लोगों की सच्ची कहानियाँ जिन्होंने कदम-दर-कदम एक skill सीखा, public sources से लिखी हुई, और वह जगह जहाँ आप वही skill free में शुरू कर सकते हैं।
Design & CreativeDon Norman: the scientist who said bad design is not your fault
Don Norman · Cognitive scientist and author of The Design of Everyday ThingsHave you ever pushed a door that needed a pull, or pressed the wrong button on a remote, and felt foolish? Don Norman spent his career arguing that the fault was not yours. An electrical engineer who became a cognitive scientist, he wrote The Design of Everyday Things, helped found the field of user-centred design and, at Apple, held the first job title to use the words User Experience. His story shows that good design starts with understanding how people think.Read story →
Design & CreativeR. K. Laxman: the Common Man and a cartoon for every morning
R. K. Laxman · Cartoonist, creator of the Common Man in The Times of IndiaR. K. Laxman began sketching as a small child in Mysore, was turned down by the art school he wanted to join, and went on to draw a daily cartoon on the front page of The Times of India for about five decades. His silent, bespectacled Common Man became one of the best-known drawings in India. His story is a lesson in what drawing every day, for years, can build.Read story →
Design & CreativeRaghu Rai: the engineer who spent sixty years photographing India
Raghu Rai · Photojournalist, Magnum Photos photographer and Padma Shri awardeeRaghu Rai trained as a civil engineer and picked up a camera in his twenties. Over the next six decades he photographed wars, disasters, leaders and ordinary streets, worked for The Statesman and India Today, and was nominated to Magnum Photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson. His story is a lesson for any photography learner in staying with a subject for years and photographing people from up close.Read story →
Design & CreativeRaja Ravi Varma: the painter who put art into every Indian home
Raja Ravi Varma · Painter of Indian epics and founder of the Ravi Varma printing pressRaja Ravi Varma grew up in a small estate in Kerala, drew on the walls of his family home as a boy, and taught himself to paint in oils when nobody would show him how. He used that skill to paint scenes from the Indian epics and the women of his time in a new, lifelike style. Then he did something few painters of his day thought of: he started a printing press so that ordinary families could hang his pictures at home.Read story →
Design & CreativeRam Mohan: the animator who trained a generation
Ram Mohan · Animator, often called the father of Indian animationRam Mohan began drawing cartoons for the government's Films Division in 1956, long before India had large animation studios. Over the decades that followed he made animated songs and title sequences for famous filmmakers, built his own studio, co-directed the animated feature Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama, and personally trained many of the people who lead Indian animation today. He is widely remembered as the father of Indian animation, and his story shows how patient craft and generous teaching can help build a whole industry.Read story →
Design & CreativeSatyajit Ray: the ad agency designer who became a great filmmaker
Satyajit Ray · Filmmaker, illustrator and typeface designer from KolkataSatyajit Ray is remembered around the world as one of the great film directors. Fewer people know that before he made a single film, he spent about thirteen years as a commercial artist at an advertising agency in Kolkata, designing advertisements, book covers and lettering. That design work trained his eye, introduced him to the story of his first film, and stayed with him in every poster and title card he later made.Read story →