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This is the fifth part of the series ‘CRAP Design Series‘. In this part we will be looking at the Contrast principle of the CRAP set of design principles. The principle states that if the two objects within an element are different, then make them really different. And also, two different elements should be having different design making them contrasting.

There are three approaches that Robin discusses in her book ‘Design Book for Non-Designer’.

• Concordant
• Conflicting
• Contrasting

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I get up this morning. It is a nice Saturday morning that I planned to spend by lazing around and doing some good original work for Splat. And as always, I open my Thunderbird to check out the updates on my tracked feeds, and I find this post, Recurring Themes: Two Topics I Don’t Cover Now, by Jonathan Bailey at Plagiarism Today.

I am an Indian, and the other authors here are all Indians. There are instances where my friends would say that I am more a non-Indian than a Indian because I take some stances that speak of Universal Brotherhood or something along those lines. But yet, I identify myself as an Indian and I am proud of it.

But that post by Jonathan, evoked a response of anger on the post in me.

India is the world’s most populous democracy and a rising Internet power. However, it seems to have an unusually strong problem with plagiarism. This problem is echoed by colleagues of mine that teach high school and college in India as well as mainstream media reports .

How could he generalize?

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It was last week when I was hurrying for my Guitar class, when I was handed out a copy of the Q4 issue of “The Witness“, Quarterly Newsletter of Greenpeace India. I had tucked it away as I was in a hurry for finishing the class and going of on a vacation.

It was today, when I happened to read it, and one particular article with the above title caught my eye. I am no GreenPeace member, but I do respect the nature that I live in to the extent I can. And also, I am no fan-boy of Apple’s products, but I do have plans on getting myself an iPod.

The article was about the fact that the Apple Macs are full of toxic chemicals.

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I encountered this concept when I was browsing my usual haunt, AstaHost. I got inspired to do the work in Vector Art medium.

I sought Randy Hutchins’ permission, and he gladly gave it. And here is the translated version of his work - translated to vector art:

Happy Valentine’s Day to all!

Note: The above work is under my copyright. The original concept art is copyright of Randy Hutchins. You may contact me at contact form of WiseTome. You may contact Randy at foolakadugie [at] gmail [dot] com.

Last week, the rodent mouse was a giveaway. This week, here is a mouse - as in the PC peripheral pointing device.

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I had been involved with some world building activities for the Chaos And Order realm, when I started working on a map for the known world of Pipurim. Indeed, there has not been much work at that repository or at the role playing forums, but I have been working on the world nevertheless. Earlier, I had worked on a constructed langauge, Pasen, and now I thought I should work a bit on the actual world by making maps.

I had been making crude maps earlier, and the extent was only with respect to demarcation of the different countries and the areas occupied by the different races of the planet Pipurim. I thought, there would be some maps drawn by the inhabitants of a group of continents, at least to the extent how much they were aware off - if not at the full planetary scale. That made me look out for resources that would help be build the map.

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