Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
For most of recorded history, people have thought of people as the only ones that were someone. Well, they used to talk to Rocks, Rivers, and Trees, but they long forgot to do that ever since. This is a book about thinking about how the world is to all the someone’s that aren’t like you and I.
Simone Rebaudengo • writing. - Simone Rebaudengo
This is a world in which time is not fluid, parting to make way for events. Instead, time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. Every action, every thought, every breath of wind, every flight of birds is completely determined, forever… In a world of fixed future, life is
... See moreThe Marginalian • Einstein’s Dreams: Physicist Alan Lightman’s Poetic Exploration of Time and the Antidote to the Anxiety of Aliveness – The Marginalian
I lead and manage the design team behind FigJam at Figma. I designed and brought FigJam to market, built out our early career hiring program, and hosted Config, our annual user conference.
I’m a weird, block-shaped designer. I’m good at taking a lot of disparate information and turning it into something that people just get.
Weather exists as an atmosphere that can be measured, as an environment that is lived, and as time in which we experience humidity, pressure, temperature, and visibility. What would be the appropriate terms of weather that speak to this trio of concerns – measure, experience, and time? This glossary of weather is a manual to navigate through the... See more
Words of Weather: A glossary
His work reflects his affinity for matters of import and impact.
His areas of expertise include book design and brand identity design, while his areas of interest cover wider ground—including film-watching (current phase: slow-burn, kitchen-sink dramas) and verse-writing (rhymed, epigrammatic, and sadly, quite sporadic).
A writing example: when I look back in my notes I realize so much of what I write about today I was ruminating about 2-3 years ago. I always knew what I was going to say. I just didn’t have the tools, I didn’t have the maturity, I didn’t have the language or sensitivity to beauty to recognize what that was. So much of what I learned was latent,... See more