Art Noor

Art Noor

Who am I?

What in a name? A rose by any other name will smell as good, but I wonder if it will feel so rosy. I grew up with the name Aslam, given by my maternal grandmother, and inherited Noor, which means the light from my…

Who Am I ?

What in a name? A rose by any other name will smell as good, but I wonder if it will feel so rosy. I grew up with the name Aslam, given by my maternal grandmother, and inherited Noor, which means the light from my…

Why TechnoCreative ArtSkool?

TechnoCreative ArtSkool began its life as a germ of an idea, about a year ago when I started very detailed online interview sessions, with a senior feature journalist, about my transformation from an adman to a painter. That month-long interview focused…

Genius Bumble Bee

According to the laws of aerodynamics, the bumble bee has too small a wingspan for the big body that it has, and can’t fly. But the bumble bee doesn’t know the laws of aerodynamics and it flies. Probably, this phenomenon…

Unreasonable Reason

Being reasonable is standard operating wisdom, which has its place in our lives. However, for High Achievement centric thinking, the opposite seems to work. High achievement or anything out of the ordinary requires you to extend yourself outside your comfort…

3 years at WTC Abu Dhabi

For those three years that I hung around at my exhibition at the World Trade Center, I was in love with the lovely ambience and the feeling that that architecture created.  I couldn’t stop wandering around admiring the nooks and…

Design is Everywhere

Design can be good, bad, or dysfunctional. There is nothing like No design.   Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, Inc. Nature designs everything beautifully,…

Being the Brush & Paint

“On the path of Love, we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of Master Painter.” I love this verse by Maulana Rumi because it beautifully clarifies the ultimate source…

Do what you love

You have heard this statement dozens of times and you might find it irritating if you are stuck in a job or vocation that you have grown out of. Or just don’t enjoy doing it. What do you do then?…