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The concept creatively signifies the meaning Foradian name and logo. It features a 4 dimensional hypercube drawn using HTML 5. You can use the mouse and keyboard to rotate the hypercube along different planes. Spend some time playing with the Tesseract and learn about higher dimensions.

The credit of the html5 hypercube goes to Milosz Kosmider . Milosz is an electronic music producer. See the orginal version of hypercube at http://hypercube.milosz.ca/

To know more about dimensions above 3, watch the following video.

Tesseract - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract

Foradian name and logo - http://blog.foradian.com/four-secrets-you-dont-know-about-foradian-log

Here is your chance to win a brand new Blackberry Curve 8520. Suggest a creative concept for the logo of the famous Aditya Group of Educational Institutions, Andhrapradesh, India.

Our creative wing BrandMango is doing a brand makeover for Aditya Group. Considering the value and impact of this project, we decided to invite logo concepts from all the creative followers of foradian. You dont have to design anything. Just tell in simple words how the logo should look like. Our designers at BrandMango will take care of designing the logo from your concept.

About Aditya Group of Educational Institutions

Aditya is a well known and respected group of institutions based out of Kakinada, Andhrapradesh. Established in 1984, Aditya Academy entered the noble field of education with a public school to cater to the prerequisite demands of primary and secondary education. As the journey progressed, Aditya Academy simply grew from strength to strength, thus spreading its wings to Junior Colleges, Degree Colleges, P.G. Colleges, Engineering and Pharmacy Colleges, Nursing Colleges and Teacher Training Institutions. A gamut of 50 educational institutions in different streams, with a faculty of 5,000 members and surging student strength of 50,000 stands testimony to the pillaring effect Aditya Academy has had on the society in the past three decades. A small dream was transformed into a flamboyant reality indeed; this is the story of Aditya Educational Institutions. Preferred logo concept

In the words of N.Deepak Reddy, Secretary, Aditya Educational Institutions

For an educational institution as mighty as Aditya, some serious responsibility lies on the shoulders for we not just mould careers but lives of individuals. There are great instances and cases where students join at the KG level and leave us only at the PG level, so they technically spend two decades trusting and believing brand Aditya. I am proud to say that we at Aditya, have always realized this and have performed our duties with utmost care and interest.

The logo should portray the concept of evolution of a 3 year old toddler to a 22 year old professional in his stay over the years in Aditya. How this idea can be portrayed through a simple logo. Give your inputs and win the blackberry.

How to submit your concepts ?

Submit the concepts via the comment form given below. Dont forget to leave your email id, so that we can contact you later. You can login with your facebook or twitter accounts also. If you have any image to upload, use http://imgur.com/

How the winner will be selected ?

The submitted concepts will be reviewed by Deepak Reddy of Aditya Group and Arun Raveendran of BrandMango. Proper feedback will be given on good concepts. BrandMango designers will be designing logos based on the favorite concepts. Once Aditya Group approves the logo, the winner will be announced.

Conditions

• Anyone can participate in this competition except Directors of Foradian Technologies.
• You can submit more than one concept or design.
• If more than one person submits same concept, advantage will be given to better description and clarity.
• Other people may submit concepts motivated/inspired from yours. If you don't want this to happen, please don't participate. If you love your concept, set it free.
• There will not be any consolation prizes.
• The copyright of the selected concept will belong to Aditya Group.
• Decision of Foradian will be final.
• Last date of submission is 5th August 2011

 Most of you might be already knowing the KISS Principle. Some like to read it as "Keep it Simple, Stupid" and some others "Keep it Simple, Sweet". There are also other variations like "keep it short and simple" or "keep it simple and straightforward"

For us, it is "Keep it Simple, Sincere" - the management philosophy Foradian successfully implemented from day 1 of its existence. It is difficult to be simple and sincere in this world. But it is always beneficial in the long run of the company.

We always communicate every thing in a simple and sincere  way to our customers. Our pricings are transparent and we explain why we charge like that for any particular service. During project proposals and milestone planning, we tell in advance what all features will be there and what all features will not be there. This has helped us mainly in avoiding false expectations in customers and saving alot of precious manhours.

Our motivation for Simplicity is Mahathma Gandhi. He is the ultimate role model for anyone interested in a simple life or minimalism. The leadership team at Foradian respects and believes in Gandhian principles and adopted them for our management practices. Following is a slideshare presentation of "10 Leadership Lessons From Mahatma Gandhi"

Want to succeed in something?Then work hard for it. Want to get something done? Just do it! We complicate our lives for no reason. Keep it simple! Plan, persevere and be persistent. This is the basic mantra for any successful venture, or to achieve any significant goal in life. Have a vision toward the goal, plan for it, and work hard to achieve it. Gandhi can be your best mentor

Regarding the magic word Sincere, we loved the awesome speech of Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis, Pune. The highlights of the speech is given the following image. You can read the full speech here. We loved the phrase don't be serious, be sincere. This is another principle the leadership team at Foradian lives by.

People often ask us how we run a profitable business using an opensource product. Hope you know that our main product Fedena is opensource and available for free download. Fedena is usually a product of reference in startup discussions related to opensource business models.

Our CEO  was interviewed by Abhay Tawase from University of Liverpool for his dissertation on "The Study of Open Source Business Models: An Investigation into the Economic Viability and the Strategies of Open Source Software Companies". Founded in 1881, the University of Liverpool has an impressive history of pioneering education and research, with a particular emphasis on 'education for the professions'. 9 Nobel Laureates and countless thousands of professionals have passed through the University since 1881.

Screenshots of the pages mentioning Fedena (pages 81 to 84)

Fedena is evolving very fast and reaching to  new markets. Our enhanced website with rich content will be launched next week. If you havent seen the GloboSchool version of Fedena, which is successfully marketed in Latin American nations, see the video given below. It is in Spanish.

Read the full dissertation here >>