Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
I n eighty-five essays, contributors nominate “extinct” objects and address them in a series of short, vivid, sometimes personal accounts, speaking not only of obsolete technologies, but of other ways of thinking, making, and interacting with the world. Extinct is filled with curious, half-remembered objects, each one evoking a future that never
... See moreMiranda Critchley • Extinct
Cultures observing both linear and cyclic concepts of time see the past as something we have put behind us and the future as something that lies before us.
Richard Lewis • How Different Cultures Understand Time
No one has ever really been able to topple the seven-day week. French revolutionaries tried to institute a ten-day week. Bolsheviks aimed for a five-day week. No one tried harder than Miss Elisabeth Achelis, a New York socialite, heir to the American Hard Rubber Company fortune, and an admirer of Melvil Dewey, he of the Dewey decimal system and
... See moreJill Lepore • How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
A tool built for creativity should feel like a sunlit artist’s studio—spacious and inspiring, with windows you can open to allow the unexpected in.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
I sit at the intersection of design, anthropology, and web development. These three are at the core of everything I make. Combining them into a coherent career is a weird and ongoing challenge.
Titles and disciplines are fickle and fleeting. But my work fits under the umbrellas of design engineering, product design, and visual interface design. W
Titles and disciplines are fickle and fleeting. But my work fits under the umbrellas of design engineering, product design, and visual interface design. W