Kalyani Tupkary

@kalyanitupkary

I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.

All cardsCollections

We live with these realities because they make the rest of our lives feel manageable. But time did not have to be arranged that way. We have imagined time, at least in Western countries, as subservient to commerce, and attempted to export or forcibly impose that understanding worldwide.

Culture Study • The Diminishing Returns of Calendar Culture

In Between Humans and Computers

inbetweenhumansandcomputers.net

organic tech and Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

conviction comes with clarity

smuggling unusual tools

While historical texts have long been subject to critical analysis, the formal and historical problems posed by graphic representations of time have largely been ignored. This is no small matter: graphic representation is among our most important tools for organizing information.*

Maria Popova • Cartographies of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline

The Computer Pays Its Debt: Women, Textiles, and Technology, 1965-1985 | Center for Craft

Center For Craft centerforcraft.org

Diagrams, maps, web pages, information graphics, visual instructions, and technical illustrations all help us to solve problems through a process of visual thinking.

Colin Ware • Visual Thinking: for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)

LaserWriter II is a coming-of-age tale set in the legendary 90s indie NYC Mac repair shop TekServe—a voyage back in time to when the internet was new, when New York City was gritty, and when Apple made off-beat computers for weirdos. Our guide is Claire, a 19-year-old who barely speaks to her bohemian co-workers, but knows when it’s time to snap

Tamara Shopsin • Attention Required! | Cloudflare