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Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela : A Month of Books
Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela dedicated to the country’s language movement in 1952 has become an integral part of Bengali literary and cultural scenes. The time-honoured book fair has an immense significance in our life as its key focus is Bengali language and traditional culture....
Vector Art
There is always a tendency in humankind to learn new things to quench their interest to know more applying their new ideas. Even in the field of art, varieties of new forms are invented and new generation of artists show their keen interest in...
Sculpture Design
Sculpture is one of the most fascinating branches of visual arts. "Sculpture" is derived from the Latin word "sculpere" which means to carve. This mainly evokes a great impact in the area of religion. In many religion, different sculptures of goddess are created in...
Best of 2019 : Interview Compilation
Tell us something about your life spend in Charukola...
Kausar Ahmed Chaudhury – April 2019
I had two dreams in my life. One was to learn painting and the other was to learn film making. At that time, students used to get admission after completing matriculation...
Graphics Design Study
With the boom of technology, many new exciting career paths come up to our new generation. Graphic designing is one of them which is witnessing more than average growth in other related fields. It is said that the projected competition is going to create...
Recycle Design: by Nitia Tasnim
In our daily lifestyle, many wastages are produced from the stuffs which we use for our necessity or comfort or luxury. On the other way, it is also our concern how to save our environment from pollution due to these wastages. As the nature...
Student’s Project – January 2020: Three Star Hotel
Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing commercial and economic activities in recent years. The tourist arrival in Bangladesh having steady growth rate over last five years. It is almost certain now the growth of tourism will increase with other economic...
Afrin Anis Rahman: Interview
Afrin Anis Rahman is a woman entrepreneur who started her venture through Smart Shopping BD which was an online makeup shop in 2013. Later she expanded her business through her passion and love for makeup arts. One evening The Design Magazine team met her...
Fine Arts Study
Through art or sketch or sculpture, the artists portray the images of their mind which is actually the inner thoughts of many people. Sometimes they illustrate the problems or sufferings of our society through their artistic works. Although many people still think that art...
Vehicle Design: by Nitia Tasnim
The quest to achieve the unthinkable has become a habit of human race. Even if we think about the era of stone, we cannot imagine such a picture in our mind where we give relax to our feet and find convenience using various transport...
Student’s Project – December 2019: Contemporary Art Museum
From geometry we know the regular shapes to be the circle and the infinite sreies of regular polygons that can be inscribed within it . Of these ,the most significant are the primary shapes :the square-A plane figure having four equal sides and four...
Shakoor Majid : Interview
Renowned film maker Shakoor Majid was born in 22 November 1965 in Sylhet. He is not only a film maker, but also an architect, playwright and Bangla Academy Award winning author of Bangladesh. He passes SSC examination in 1982 and HSC in 1984 from...
Architecture Study
It gets much difficult to pursue our career on what we have fascinated to see ourselves to be in our future since our childhood. Sometimes we can succeed to have chance to study on our desired subject. Otherwise we just have to follow the...
Meditation for Design: by Nazifa Noor
Often times, we are asked to meditate on a situation and then take action. Thinking about something deeply and then proceeding to solve it, leads to far better results than acting on something compulsively. Meditating is simply putting more thought on one thing and...
Sarah Karim: Interview
Sarah Karim Couture as a brand has been a high-end trademark for the fashionist as in the country. It has been a trusted option for those attending glamorous fashion events or lavish weddings and sangeets. To begin with Sarah Karim entered the world of...
Wood in Design – by Nitia Tasnim
Wood is the oldest renewable resource used in interior designs and in structures. Naturally, people are always interested in moderate, reasonable and comparatively beautiful design for their living environment. Wood is the best choice from all those aspects. It is a versatile material and...
Nourish Your Brain: by Nazifa Noor
All great things in the world are products of creativity. Often times, we tend to forget that creativity isn’t just always related to art. Creativity is required to tackle tricky situations as well as difficult people and it is a fundamental need for fueling...
Student’s Project – October 2019: Integrating planetarium with observatory through a Fair-Shared Astro-Park
Project Background
Planetariums have been established for a variety of reasons; some of them not always stated. A few have been built solely as useful tools for teaching celestial navigation. Some came about primarily as memorials to rich and/or famous people....
Chanchal Mahmood: Photography, the bridge that connects the world
Known for his brilliant approach towards photography, Chanchal Mahmood is one of the prominent faces in the photography industry of Bangladesh. He is best known for Model photography, but he prefers to introduce himself as a photographer, teacher and a journalist the most. He...
Interior Design – by Nitia Tasnim
You may have found your dream house or apartment, but it becomes truly your home only when you put your touches of love on it and decorate in a way that reflects your personal tastes and what appeals you.Interior design is something that makes...
Galaxy and it’s Design – by Nazifa Noor
There is no doubt in the fact that design is a fundamental part of our life. A life without design is no life at all. Design provides structure that can make or break. In many ways, design is synonymous to the word “plan”. Thus,...
Student’s Project – September 2019: Integrated Tourism Resort & Entertainment village
Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing commercial and economic activities in recent years. The tourist arrival in Bangladesh having steady growth rate over last five years. It is almost certain now the growth of tourism will increase...
Nazia Haque Oni’s Interview: Doctor drawing diseases
Nazia Haque Oni is a doctor and the Assistant Director in Green Life Medical College Hospital. Apart from her medical profession, she has a great passion for arts. The Design Magazine team came to know about her through her paintings. She runs a Facebook...
Glass as a building material- by Nitia Tasnim
Nowadays glass has become one of the most key fabricating materials. The uses of glass is vastly expanding in houses, offices, and such establishments. Glass not only provides natural lights to a building but also it can change the formation of a building to...
Perfect Curtain- by Tasmia Rahman
Curtain does not give only the finishing touch to your home décor, it has a range of benefits too. Curtains are useful to prevent dust building inside the house and control the amount of light entering the rooms. If you have those neighbours who...
Hashem Khan : The legendary painter of Bangladesh
Tell us about your childhood and the place where you grew up?
I studied in our village school till class six. The name of my village is Sekdi. It’s just near to Chandpur Town. Yearly two or one drama took place in school playground where...
Perfect Lighting: The Secret of Flawless Interior Design
Lighting is the key to a good interior design within your space, affecting not only the perceived size of the area but also changing the ambiance and the way of using the space. It JUNE sound dramatic, but lighting can either make or break...
Student’s Project – July 2019: Kakran Pottery Village
Design concept has been made based on the lifestyle of a potter and I have found his wheel and inspired by it, which is adjacent with his earning and the purpose of a potters life. I have decided to work with a circle shape...
Student’s Project- June 2019: Lushai Heritage Village
The daughter of the present headman of Lushai aborigine has taken step to create the traditional village pattern of Lushai so that from this project the Bangladeshi will get an opportunity to know the life style, belief, living motto and...
Horn Hudai Bajay Vudai: An Artist’s Dream for a Better City
Mominur Rahman Royal is a graphic designer and an artist by profession. He has done his graduation on Fine Arts from UODA. He thinks, unnecessarily honking at each other in the road won’t bring anything and he started a movement to stop horn pollution...
Abu Naser : The visionary image maker
Coming from a simple background, Abu Naser became one of the most influential fashion photographers in the country. The journey was not very smooth. He, however, managed to be the groundbreaking image maker in the industry. Naser , in an exclusive interview with The...
Student’s Project- May 2019: Connecting Metro Rail Station with Urban Fabric
In my design I focused Urban Fabric to accommodate linkages to existing community amenities and activity Space, transport link and surrounding details, open space, function, economic and socio cultural aspects and reducing the negative impact on the environment.
The concept of my project...
Animation : Prospect in Bangladesh
I make animation to convey my opinions easily to people through my animation. Such as a writer, who depicts his stories or moments in his book.
Since my childhood, I loved cartoon and animation. I used to watch those animations with immense attention and always...
Anamorphosis : The Art of Anamorphic Illusion
My name is Ridwanul Masnun Ridun commonly called as Ridwan Ridun in short. I am involved in drawing anamorphic artworks. Most of the people are not familiar to the word named ‘anamorphic’. Now, here, I shall explain what anamorphic is all about.
Anamorphic means producing,...
Kausar Ahmed Chaudhury: Interview of a Legend
What is ESP ?
In addition to psychology, there is another branch known as Parapsychology. In this section, paranormal incidence that occurs are said to be supernatural. Since ages, history of such type of paranormal activities has been found. These have not been eye witnessed,...
The joy of understanding colour
There is a saying “life is like a box of crayon”. Wherever we are, there are ranges of colours around us. Colour is an integral part of our life. It has always played a significant role in human’s evolutionary process. Colour is not just...
Student Project- April 2019: Design of a University in Feni
The title of my project is campus planning of Feni University and the site area is about 691200 sft,16 acre. Feni university foundation of Bangladesh is the client and implementing authority by Feni university foundation.
Education is one of the...
Thanzil: The brand
April is near and so the celebration of Bengali New Year. No surprise like any other season, on this season of Pohela Boishakh , I had to dig on some new clothes for the most awaited festival. While I was wondering and confused what...
SAMA’S Kitchen: Interview of a successful mompreneur
How did you come up with the idea of Sama’s Kitchen?
I have to go through my childhood memories if I need to explain how I started or came up with the idea of Sama’s Kitchen. My father served in army when I was a...
Flowers in Design, Decorations & Life
Everyone loves flower, who does not?
Natural beauty of flowers brightens the world and without them, the world would become a dull place. A bouquet of fresh flowers can make your day filled with joy and freshness.
Flowers may be used for various decorations, bouquets and...
ABC of Graphic Design
Graphic design is a creative and systematic art with a purpose. It is also known as communication design. It is a practice of projecting ideas and plans with visual and textual content.
Graphic design may include images, words or graphics in a physical and virtual...
Soul And Shapes: an artist in bloom
My memory takes me back to the age of 5, when I had successfully acquired a drawing of a boy. The boy was sitting on his bed looking out his window to the sky. The sky was filled with twinkling little stars and a...
Coffee with Nadia Nourin
It was afternoon on 10th February. The day was Saraswati Puja. Nadia Nourin came to our office where she was invited for coffee. Her facebook page ‘notebored’ drew my attention while I was looking for buying some collectible items to gift my nephew. Her...
Student Project – March 2019 : Ship Museum & Research Center
The massing concept of this project derived from one of the traditional boats of Bangladesh, known as “Sampan”.
The site was at the outskirt of Chittagong town, also known as Halishahar beach, just beside the Bay of Bengal. The main idea was to create a...
Floor Design: an article by Jennifer Hassan
Floor designing is one of the most significant decisions one has to make when it comes to build or renovate a house. A beautiful and durable floor forms the foundation of a room. Flooring materials are vital parts of interior design. The choice of...
Landscape Design : an article by Tanvir Farhad
Landscape design is a key component of architecture. It is usually the design of outdoor areas of a building.
Landscaping is more than making a garden or decorated yard. It is about transforming an outdoor space into beautiful and appealing yard and minimizing the impact...
Things to consider: when buying furniture
Furniture is something that completes a house. It has become an utmost necessity of daily life and the most crucial part of designing an interior space. Furniture of various ranges, varieties and designs are available in domestic market.
Furniture makes one’s life easier. The presence...
TDM Amateur: Lubna Yeasmin
On rainy mornings, when I step out of the house, my eyes fall straight towards the sky. Grey cloud standing alongside of an intense black piece of cloud at one side and at the other side lies a hazy white cloud. Despite of the...
Student Project- February 2019: A Bus Counter
We are presenting here a thesis project on Interior design by Jobaed Hossain who graduated in Interior Architecture from a reputed university in Bangladesh. His thesis project was about redesigning a bus counter. He covered the following spaces in his design: Entrance, reception, waiting...
Sketchpad: Sabbir N Rahman
This time we covered Sabbir N Rahman a real talented artist in our SKETCHPAD section
You can find him in FACEBOOK
Shoilee: a hive where design meets creativity
Based in Dhaka, ‘Shoilee’ is more of a jewellery studio and boutique house where the owner of the studio Tahmina Shaily and her team let their creative energies flow and take shape into new design ideas.
Creative entrepreneur Tahmina Shaily, in a recent interview, told...
Architect: The change maker
What if the city was designed by an expert from the beginning? The first thing that comes to our mind is a city with no pollution, no dirt, no traffic congestion and no noise. A planned city where children are going to school safely,...
Wedding Planner & Event Management
Creative Wedding Planner and Event Management is one of the respected and coveted event planning company based in Dhaka. Meticulous luxury details are created here to deliver the most spectacular and extraordinary innovative social and corporate events. The company was founded in 1995 and...
Walls in Design
A wall of any house is an essential structure that provides shelter or security to its residents. A big wall, be it interior or exterior, can be the perfect canvas for creative décor.
So, with a little creativity and artistry, one can make a boring...
