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Industry Trends and Insights
Insights on branding, digital products, websites, packaging, manufacturing, and business—written from real projects, research, and hands-on experience building brands.


What Does It Actually Cost to design & Build a Website in India?
The honest answer to this question is that a website designed & built in India can cost ₹50,000 or ₹15,00,000 — and both numbers can be legitimate depending on what's actually being built. The problem is that most businesses asking this question don't yet know which of those two situations applies to them, and the people they ask don't always tell them. This is an attempt to give a clearer picture — not a quote, but a framework for understanding what drives website costs in I
Ajay Sapkale
9 min read


How Do You Build a Brand Colour Palette That Actually Lasts?
Most brand colour decisions are made too quickly and for the wrong reasons. A founder sees a palette they like — on a competitor's website, in a design inspiration post, in a Canva template — and it becomes the starting point. The reasoning is aesthetic rather than strategic. The palette looks good. It might even look great. But it wasn't built for this brand, for this audience, for the specific communication job this business needs colour to do. The result is a palette that

MEIYO
9 min read


Tastemaxing: Why Feeding Your Visual Vocabulary Is the Most Underrated Design Skill
There's a version of design school that teaches you technique — how to kern type, how to build a grid, how to think through a layout hierarchy. And technique matters. But there's something that technique can't teach you, something that separates designers who produce competent work from designers who produce work that feels alive: taste. Taste is not a personality trait. It's not something you're born with or without. It's a muscle, and like any muscle, it develops through us
Ajay Sapkale
7 min read
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