https://georgesupreeth.com/web/tags/opinion/Recent content in Opinion on George SupreethHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 19 Feb 2026 10:44:43 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_260219_a_mindset_for_creating_art/Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:44:43 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_260219_a_mindset_for_creating_art/S omeone I know wished to apply for a $50k grant offered to artists by a foundation in the U.S., and the grant rules stated only fine artists may apply. Not illustrators, commercial artists or people who create pictures for a living. Just fine artists. Now this person is an illustrator but she could be a fine artist. couldn’t she? The line that divides these two is thin. Both illustrators and fine artists make art, so one can switch over, and indeed, many fine artists have illustrated for a living, and there are illustrators who have quit to paint full-time.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_adapting_to_gen_ai/Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_adapting_to_gen_ai/How I feel about Generative AI doesn’t matter. I may as well hurl toothpicks at elephants for all the good it will do. The market has spoken. Over the past 3 years, Generative AI has gradually upended the market for creative skills. Now illustration, films, writing, code and music can all be generated by AI in minutes, so it should come as no surprise that people from these industries don’t look kindly at Generative AI There has been considerable backlash against AI technologies by artists.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_studio_ghibli_and_identity_theft/Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_studio_ghibli_and_identity_theft/TL;DR Generating images in the style of Studio Ghibli is identity theft. In 2014, the Delhi High Court pronounced its judgement in the case of Reckitt Benckiser VS Hindustan Lever, the marketeers of Dettol and Lifebuoy soaps. Reckitt Benckiser filed a suit against Hindustan Lever claiming that they had disparaged the Dettol brand by referencing it in a Lifebuoy advertisement, by showing a bottle that looked like a Dettol bottle, in both shape and colour with a claim that it is ineffective as opposed to Lifebuoy.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_stories_are_a_scaffold/Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_stories_are_a_scaffold/India Coffee House in the 90s was different. It was located on Bangalore’s M.G road, housed in the now derelict Shrungar Shopping Complex. It had an old world vibe, with retro posters on peeling walls, ancient tables, and a large plate-glass window at which I used to sit and watch the world go by. Today, it seems like a desolate place, peopled by the elderly and a scattering of hipsters.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_an_escheresque_orientalism/Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_an_escheresque_orientalism/How should I feel about an Indian five-star hotel that adopts an Orientalist aesthetic? The pragmatic side of me says that as a service-designer, I should understand the expectations of the foreign tourist demographic, especially the older, retired Europeans and Americans visiting the India they’ve read about by authors like Rudyard Kipling. That the hotel industry is a part of India’s service driven economy, and that the hotel’s decor, and its staff uniforms affect an orientalist aesthetic to meet the idealised expectations of a particular tourist demographic.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_convenience_eats_manifestos_for_breakfast/Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_convenience_eats_manifestos_for_breakfast/People who ride their motorbikes on the footpath really piss off my wife. She takes her walks in the evening, which is also rush hour in Bangalore, and there are always those who try to beat traffic jams by riding on the footpath. For pedestrians who have to contend with loose wires, faeces, footloose rats, construction debris, collapsed tree limbs and broken flagstones, speeding bikes are one more hazard to dodge.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_the_ingredients_of_identity/Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_the_ingredients_of_identity/Table of Contents What is Visual Identity? Identity Design & Me Identity as Salience Identity as Signalling Identity Through Differentiation Running the Gauntlet of Corporate Approval Changelog Footnotes “My kid could have drawn that” is what one client told me when I asked for payment towards the logo I designed. This happened early in my career, and though I don’t design logos anymore, I have since maintained an interest in visual identities and what their owners have to say about them.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_logos_and_vaastu/Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_logos_and_vaastu/I came across this bonkers article on Linkedin written by a Vaastu Shastra expert on why Wipro’s new logo is basically causing the company to sink. The author claims that they design logos using a combination of: “Astrology, Tantra, Vastu, Feng Shui, Graphology, Symbology, Colour Science, and many more streams.“ Here is an excerpt: “In 2020, an employee embezzled about $4 million through the immoral act of password stealing and money transfer from one of Wipro’s bank accounts.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_manufacturing_luck/Sun, 24 Jan 2021 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_manufacturing_luck/The problem with success, even just survival is that it would be a whole lot easier if so much of it didn’t have to do with chance. Chance is the thing that makes us gnash our teeth, the cow that gives good milk, but kicks over the pail. If everything were merely chance, then we would be lost. Happily for us, competence plays a role too and that can be a wonderful thing.