Shibani.net - Blog & personal website of a web & graphics designer in search of herself

I came across this extremely interesting article today. For the first time, someone has taken the poor designers side and tried to explain our plight to the developers - those developers who ruin our designs, make pages heavier, argue and fight and finally deliver as if they have done a big favour. If not for [...]

I call this one ‘Entangled‘ and it speaks of the various trivial shackles that grip us. It mocks at us and the fact that we are tied by our own fears and convictions. If only we had an open mind then we could free our souls and reach a higher existence -a place where objects [...]

This is really cool tutorial on stoning people’s pictures. Actually, a bondhu (friend) of mine found this online. The trick is to use basic layer effects. I don’t remember the url I got this from but isn’t this cool…or should I say, freaky?!
I’ve done this one in a rush, I’ll try to improve it as [...]

Ever wondered what those strange voices were, the same ones that told you to do or refrain from doing something. Don’t you feel that your head is spinning with all those words running through your mind. Not your conscience, its the little sneaky yellow smiley, smugly smiling inside, thats creating this mischief. Believe me, I [...]

Meet Scott.
Scott is a computer professional. One day, Scott was walking around the net. He saw many .htmls and .pdfs. He also came across plenty of images on his way to the server. All of a sudden, he looked across to see a ‘missing image’. Scott wondered what happened to the image - why it [...]

I heard on the radio about the Hindi version of Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man’s Chest being released as ‘Samundar ke lutere - Murdey ka khazana‘. Yipes! How ridiculously, stupidly, technically correct the translation is! Anyway, I am yet to see it and from what I’ve heard from friends, it is an awesome [...]

I got this picture in my mailbox today. Couldn’t stop laughing when I saw it and had to mention it here. It’s some shampoo ad. Isn’t the lion cute?
Before the shampoo, the lion was a junglee animal. After the shampoo its a civilized beast. Haha!