the front cover from a book design 'ekdin bristyte'... done as an academic work.

the things around me are changing a lot since last few months. some of these were too fast that they became history before i noticed. some of these were too long seemed like never ending! i saw people… i saw how they act and how they react! some were interesting, some were heartbreaking. but somehow they were good for me. i’ve learn once again nothing is so important in life!

these days i am working lot. i don’t know for what but i am in a hurry. i am working with the establishment of a dedicated digital advertising agency which i think is going to be something new in bangladesh. the prothom alo blog which was my last project in my previous office got live few weeks ago. that was another dream project for me but i don’t know why… i didn’t feel any excitement watching that live. life is changing… so i am!

the english alphabet is from the 'axiata' font which was my guideline. i've tried to follow the style.

the former ‘aktel’ re-branded themselves to ‘robi‘ from 28 march 2010. it was the most massive commercial event of present advertising history. i came to know about the new brand name by 15 february though it was something top level secret. suddenly i found myself so special when they offered me to design and develop a new type font for this new brand. it was totally a new experience for me. the maximum share of robi is owned by axiata. so ‘robi’ is using axiata’s brand identity and guideline. i had to follow the style of ‘axiata’ font. the time was too limited and i was new. but that made me desperate. i met the first deadline with a complete developed font which they refused. then the present one came with the effort of another few sleepless nights. i am grateful to my dearest friend and to rifat vai.

so, when i see a billboard saying ‘apnar aktel ekhon’ or ‘jole uthun apon shoktite’ or some other sentences in ‘robi’ font, i do remember the hardest works and loveliest memories

i used to watch this view several minutes, everyday. i found there something which always gave some space in my mind... i'm really going to miss this view!

i’ve passed more than two and half years looking through this window and saw the changes… some changes were so massive that its hard to remember the past. after 4 and half years of my involvement with ebizzsol, i’ve decided to leave! that was obvious, i wanted to believe some other thing but everyone knew the reality before i came to know it!

i liked to remember the first day i came to this place… i can remember the dream i had in my mind; and now the nightmares!

a new born bangla font, designed and developed from hand crafted pencil lines!

this time it’s something very serious discussion about typography. till february 15, i knew typography from the point of academic activities. i actually didn’t know how it could be used in real life. one of my friends called me then who is working in an largest ad agency of the country. they were looking for someone who can create a full usable set of bangla alphabets. i wasn’t sure but somehow found enough courage to do it. later i came to know it’s for one of the largest mobile phone company who is going to be re-branded within the end of this month. last 30 days i just lived with the alphabets… and the best part is, i’ve came to know about the best typographer i’ve ever met. the deadline was too tight… almost impossible for beginner like us. but we’ve done it somehow! it wasn’t superb but definitely we can treat it as an achievement. congratulations to us!

so, though it’s long time you didn’t see me here, i am feeling good to say you something new… i’ll tell you about the experience soon in my next post.

have nice time

this is one of my most experimented design. there is nothing special here but i've spent months to complete this work.

it’s the 5th year i am working at ebizzsol! sometime i wonder about this long journey… a journey of memories and lessons with lot of achievements. well, i don’t know how far i’ll go but i was mostly happy with what i had and right now i have some ideas in my head which are making me breathe. so i am alive!

i’ve started working with a new ebizzsol website from the end of 2008. it took a long year! we had some real hard time within this period and the truth is this new website is a kind of effort to regain our faith. i had lot of things in my mind when planning this site but as it’s normal, i didn’t able to express all my ideas. we are still working on some pages like the portfolio, weblog and new services. let us know what you think about it.

1: i like travelling and i wanted to be the first user of tripbd. 2: prothom alo is one of the biggest brand in bangladesh. the log was created by such biggest one; qayyum chowdhury. 3: i really like this logo and really feel proud that i've created this one

it took more than 3 months to write something about what happening around me. there were few reasons:

> recently i’ve realized that my english is real bad and i am ashamed of it
> there were no good stories… not bad stories though
> i am in a loop

i was at srimangal when the calender was changing. before i went there, i thought to write a review about the concluding year. but it didn’t happen. srimangal tour was wonderful. we were a group of 20 and we stayed in a bungalow of tea garden.

now i am thinking about the year 2009… i don’t know what should i say about it. most of the time it seemed i am not having a good time though in the meantime i’ve got the chance to work with some great projects like tripbd.com, prothom-alo.com, goromcha.com… and once again i’ve fallen in love! but right now i am with bare hands and mind, looking toward the infinity for a miracle. it’s true i never lose my faith.

this illustration was done by the prothom alo design team. i liked this one and found it perfect for my post!

the new prothom alo website has launched last 16 september. within last two weeks we have experienced ‘somethings’ which were really very new to all of us. prothom alo had published an ad on that day in their printed newspaper declaring the lunching of their new website which has brought million of visitors to the newly launched website. according to alexa, on this day prothom-alo.com got the highest visitors within it’s present history. that was wonderful… again alarming for us. we should agree that we had some limitations which has caused sufferings for many visitors… they didn’t able to reach the website. but within few hours we have able to fix maximum of the obstacles. after that we start getting feedbacks from users… more than three thousands of feedback within just 48 hours! it’s true there were some feedback criticizing the new design… some of them were really considerable and we are still trying to combine them to the website.

well, today prothom alo published an article about this new website. they mentioned our name in the article… ha ha ha! am i going to be famous? it’s something new to me and the truth is i am feeling good.

thanks prothom alo!

this was the very first screen shot of latest prothom alo website. till now it has changed lot...

i am congratulating myself… the new prothom-alo.com is live now!

a year back when i first got the call from the daily star, it was like a dream to me. last one year i’ve passed half of my office time watching the news sites. i am still doing the same thing and comparing my work with the standard of the leading news sites and found that may be i’ve fulfill a dream of mine somehow but it’s still far way to go! prothom alo is the highest visited website of the country. so the plan was making it the biggest news website of the country. I was so pleased that people chose to stop here after perhaps a game of online bingo (www.foxybingo.com) or in between checking their emails. i know there are still lot of opportunities to serve the users but i hope this’d be an example. i am still studying and hope the next one would be definitely better and i am waiting to tell you about that.

sometime i wish, somehow i'll know what's happening in that world where i must have to go!

what is death? it’s one of my favorite thinking when I feel lonely… death is loneliness… absolute loneliness! The day before yesterday I saw someone known to me passed away. I was thinking when walking with the funeral procession to the graveyard… I have the same destiny! It’s being said that spirit never dies. So how I am going to exist with only that spirit? I can’t imagine… but it’s reality that people will forget me as I’ve already forgotten many of my dearest persons. People like me who believe in god always pray a ‘peaceful’ life after the death. I don’t know what the word ‘peaceful’ means here. Is it something like tolerable loneliness?

each of these poster is like an example of perfection. salute to those designers... you are something!

you can find all the posters through this link!

i was looking for some illustrations, posters… some old things. then i got the fifa world cup’s posters of all the previous years from the fifa website… these are wonderful. i always found myself so backdated comparing with the people rest of the world and time. i was thinking even if i were asked to design such a poster, i am sure i’ll not even able to reach the standard of the oldest one. people in 1930 were smarter than me!

helal: wat u think abt nature:
me: i wish to die when i found it very beautiful
h: wat da definition of death to u?
m: the deepest sleep… i felt it sometime – forgetting about my existence… as if i am nothing
h: if u blv in religion – its not like tht – death is something different
m: i know that… but i have some other thinking – for bad the sleep is full of bad dreams – and for good… it’s painless
h: only romantic ppl speak like this – its not true – incorrect hypothesis – bad dreams and even pain vary among ppl – its all about how you preserve ur doings – because – dreams are projected from ur memory cell – if u can forget… dreams are always painless – some ppl even dont dream anything
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h: death – some ppl await death
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h: ppl die in some cases – even if they can take breathe
death is to me, the termination of some state
1. careness for anything/anybody
2. urge for any expected incident to be occurred
3. charm of life
m: well said – i agree
h: lol – and ppl expect death in some cases (except humaiyan the great)
1. when he/she finds no way out
2. when he/she cant tolerate the insult
3. when he/she loses the most precious thing(local idea) of his/her life
locality means the limitation of knowledge – wat he thinks true in local can be false in global – so as human being most of the time cant see the life as whole – his thoughts are limited
m: i don’t know so many things… but i am finding some similarities with my thinking
h: because in knowledge, i live in the same domain – so there must be similarities
m: to me… it probably could be an exit of the pain i am having now