Kalyani Tupkary

@kalyanitupkary

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

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My sweet spot is a balance of analog and digital skills, between logic, endearing details, and play.

visual thoughts | Are.na

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Fictional Hotel Notepads

herblester.com

design fiction leaking into real life

How do I pay attention to what I like? or better still, how do I know what I like?

"I have no technical ability and I know nothing about music," he said. "I know what I like and what I don't like and I'm decisive about what I like and don't like” Rick Rubin

favourite questions

AI takes what's specific and makes it general. It takes what's wrinkly and makes it smooth.

Katie Parrott • How to Keep Your Writing Weird in the Age of AI

I wanted it to do the opposite

ryohei yoshiyuki: time of the sky II

ryohei yoshiyuki designboom.com

🌞 sunlit interfaces

time of the sky

biologist Robin Wall Kimmerer, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, observes that the indigenous Potawatomi language is rich in verb forms that attribute aliveness to the more-than-human world. The word for "hill," for example, is a verb: to be a hill. Hills are always in the process of hilling, they are actively being hills.

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more than human

The semantic system of graphical relations The graphical expression of semantic relations

Johanna Drucker • Diagrammatic Writing

Calendar Collective

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Speculative Design and