# visual language — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover visual language. Page: Feed: --- ## [What Colour Does in Your Photographs](https://photographer.substack.com/p/what-colour-does-in-your-photographs) _2026-08-09 · Mat · Inside The Photographer's Mind_ Attraction, Conflict, and Visual Clutter ## [How Did a Box of Matches Become India's Visual Language?](https://fatemaraja.substack.com/p/how-did-a-box-of-matches-become-indias) _2026-07-30 · Fatema Raja · LAYER BY LAYER_ Here is an object that shouldn’t be interesting, and yet is one of the strangest design archives India has ever produced. ## [Japan has design, Sweden has design, but India stopped at heritage.](https://fatemaraja.substack.com/p/stop-designing-from-scratch-start) _2026-07-28 · Fatema Raja · LAYER BY LAYER_ How changing the context, not the content, might be how India finds its modern design language. ## [Why Our Photos Fall Short | And How Texture Changes Everything](https://photographer.substack.com/p/why-our-photos-fall-short-and-how) _2026-07-26 · Mat · Inside The Photographer's Mind_ A friend scrolls through her camera roll, showing me photos from her last vacation. ## [India Is Way Cooler Than Its Palaces](https://fatemaraja.substack.com/p/india-is-way-cooler-than-its-palaces) _2026-07-08 · Fatema Raja · LAYER BY LAYER_ And Fred Again’s India tour announcement proves the point. ## [India's long, slow return to its own visual language](https://fatemaraja.substack.com/p/indias-long-slow-return-to-its-own) _2026-06-30 · Fatema Raja · LAYER BY LAYER_ Hi everyone, I'm Fatema Raja, I write Layer by Layer — a newsletter where I share my perspective on design, branding, and consumer psychology. ## [How Lines Become Emotion and Story Inside a Photograph](https://photographer.substack.com/p/beyond-leading-lines) _2026-06-28 · Mat · Inside The Photographer's Mind_ Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole ## [Beyond Leading Lines](https://photographer.substack.com/p/beyond-leading-lines-e99) _2026-06-21 · Mat · Inside The Photographer's Mind_ Why Leading Lines Can Feel Meaningless in Practice ## [Everything Old Is New Again](https://fatemaraja.substack.com/p/everything-old-is-new-again) _2026-06-04 · Fatema Raja · LAYER BY LAYER_ Why the Past Is the Most Powerful Product Right Now ## [Why I Leave Most of My Lenses at Home](https://photographer.substack.com/p/pack-light-find-flow) _2026-06-04 · Mat · Inside The Photographer's Mind_ Travel - Focus - Creativity ## [Auto-trade Cross-Exchange Gaps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/jrUyuusZvnr3) _2026-06-04 · **Sponsored**_ Find cross-exchange spreads, backtest strategies, and execute automatically with risk controls. ## [Built to Scale, Designed to Feel](https://fatemaraja.substack.com/p/built-to-scale-designed-to-feel) _2026-05-30 · Fatema Raja · LAYER BY LAYER_ What leading the Gojek rebrand taught me about building brand systems that grow without losing their soul ## [Why My Daughters Finish What I Don’t](https://photographer.substack.com/p/why-my-daughters-finish-what-i-dont) _2026-05-24 · Mat · Inside The Photographer's Mind_ On Unity, Variety, and Finishing the Work ## [How to Work a Scene for Better Photos](https://photographer.substack.com/p/how-to-work-a-scene-for-better-photos) _2026-05-10 · Mat · Inside The Photographer's Mind_ Do you ever find yourself standing in front of a scene that you know is full of potential, but your mind is creatively blank? ## [The Art of Being Unmistakable.](https://fatemaraja.substack.com/p/the-art-of-being-unmistakable) _2026-04-22 · Fatema Raja · LAYER BY LAYER_ On digital noise, brand identity, and the discipline of staying on one frequency. ## [What Are You Leaving Undone as a Photographer?](https://photographer.substack.com/p/what-are-you-leaving-undone-as-a) _2026-04-19 · Mat · Inside The Photographer's Mind_ I wonder if one of our biggest problems as photographers is that we just keep shooting and storing away. ## [India Has 800 Brands and Counting. Almost None Are Building Together.](https://fatemaraja.substack.com/p/you-are-the-company-you-keep) _2026-04-11 · Fatema Raja · LAYER BY LAYER_ How brand collaboration is the most underutilised currency in modern marketing ## [The Design System Starts with the Packaging, Not the Logo.](https://fatemaraja.substack.com/p/the-brand-book-comes-last) _2026-04-05 · Fatema Raja · LAYER BY LAYER_ How to design the most scalable visual identity. ## [My 1st DIY Picture Frames](https://photographer.substack.com/p/my-1st-diy-picture-frames) _2026-04-05 · Mat · Inside The Photographer's Mind_ And how it taught me to finish what I start ## [Appreciation Over Aspiration: A $600B Shift in India's Consumer Mindset](https://fatemaraja.substack.com/p/appreciation-over-aspiration-a-600b) _2026-03-23 · Fatema Raja · LAYER BY LAYER_ How quality intelligence replaced aspiration and discounts as India's new consumer currency ## [When Your Photography Begins to Mean Something](https://photographer.substack.com/p/when-your-photography-begins-to-mean) _2026-03-22 · Mat · Inside The Photographer's Mind_ There will be a moment on your photography journey when it all comes together, and you enter the maturity phase of your work. ## [Sync Bookmarks Everywhere (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6v0UgDeCDX0s) _2026-03-22 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync keeps folders and toolbar intact across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. ## [brute force attempt to understand RNN](https://poonai.xyz/interpretability/2026/03/01/brute-force-attempt-to-understand-RNN.html) _2026-03-01 · Poonai’s space_ As of today, it’s not feasible to fully understand LLM. Therefore, scientists are hypothesizing that studying a toy model would help us to understand the big model. I came across such toy model released by ARC and I tried to understand their understanding. ## [I competed against Anthropic to know my self-worth](https://poonai.xyz/ai/optimization/2026/01/31/i-competed-against-anthropic-to-know-my-self-worth.html) _2026-01-31 · Poonai’s space_ The whole ego competition started when I received a text message saying, “Anyone here is trying this?” with a blog title: Designing AI-resistant technical tech evaluation. As I read the blog, I was excited to see how far AI agents have caught up with coding tasks, and it also created a subtle fear in me of not being valuable anymore. I bet some of you have already felt that way at some point.… ## [Building an Visual Language Model from scratch](https://poonai.xyz/ai/image/llm/natural-language-processing/2025/10/02/building-visual-language-model.html) _2025-10-02 · Poonai’s space_ My initial aim was to build a document processing model. But the idea was far fetched for my skill at the time. So, I settled down for building a toy version of visual language model for better understanding of VLM. I’m documenting my intuition for the benefit of myself and others. My model will receive image as an input and return its caption as an output. Luckily, I found a dataset with image… ## [Context Pruning in conversational agents](https://poonai.xyz/ai/context-engineering/llm/context-pruning/2025/09/08/context-pruning-in-conversational-agents.html) _2025-09-08 · Poonai’s space_ My Journey to Building Agentic Apps ## [Simplest backpropagation explainer without chain rule](https://poonai.xyz/2025/04/27/simplest-backpropagation-explainer-without-chain-rule.html) _2025-04-27 · Poonai’s space_ Neural Networks learn to predict by backpropagation. This article aims to help you, build a solid intuition about the concept using a simple example. The ideas we learn here can be expanded for bigger nerual network. I assume that you already know how feed forward neural network works.