This site pays homage to the humble crayon. A life shared with many children (and some adults). A small but colorful textured life.

My love affair with crayons started when I first held it in my little hands. Its one of those precious little things you can have as a child. I use them to draw stick figures on pad papers with big red and blue lines and our home’s walls. I imagined that it can change forms through heating and melting by placing them on top of burning candles. I placed them on little plastic cups from Jelly Ace to serve as molds. To my delight, my crayons turned to little cupcakes and a “Curly Tops-ish” chocolate with its round, curly mold.

I discovered watercolor and colored pencils in my pre-teen years, color pastels and charcoal in my high school days. In college, poster color came into my vocabulary. I learned that it’s also possible to create art from found objects and label them as “Dadaism” or “Mixed Media Art”. Casting busts with plaster of paris replaced my crayon cupcakes. I’ve learned to use Adobe Photoshop 4.0 and html codes and used the very first I-Mac on my first job and been introduced to Macromedia Freehand. Macromedia is now the property of Adobe, with CS3 as its latest version.

I’ve been to advertising, graphic design, packaging design and web design studios but I just can’t forget my little friends. Until now, its smell still brings back fond memories from my childhood. The crayon is my true introduction to the crazy, fun and colorful world of visual design. And whatever new medium I might be using, I’ll still be holding my little crayons in my other hand. Like most visual artists, my designing life all points back to the crayon.

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