Perch in 100% Yatra
Many thanks to the team behind 100% Zine. They’re doing a great job of bringing together artists from different backgrounds on the same platform and we’re very happy to share our work with them. 100% zine can be bought online or at design stores like Filter and Bombay Electric.
Sketchnotes: Design Public 4
The Design Public Conclave is a platform to enable conversations between thinkers, opinion makers and doers that looks to transform India into an innovation society. Initiated by the Centre for Knowledge Studies the fourth edition concluded in Mumbai last week. These are my sketchnotes from the 30th of November, 2012. In summing up, I...
Interview: Sudhir Sharma
Sudhir Sharma is a man of many facets: he is a designer, an entrepreneur, a teacher and a publisher. He is the founder and chairman of Indi Design, a rapidly growing brand and creative consultancy with offices in three countries and is best known for being a passionate spokesperson for design from India. Back in...
Global Design Forum 2012
On September 18th this year, Aditya and I were in London to attend the first ever Global Design Forum. Curated and delivered by the London Design Festival, the forum looks to provide a platform for important ideas about the future role of design around the world. The forum proved to be an ambitious project by...
That Great Divide
“What is your superpower?” Karl Heiselman was on stage at the Kyoorius Designyatra in Goa. Speaking about how he became the CEO of Wolff Olins, he echoed the experiences of many speakers and delegates present there, he talked about a unique quality that helps designers find solutions to the problems they are presented with everyday....
Sketchnotes from Kyoorius Designyatra 2012
These sketches were created live at Designyatra 2012 using the Paper app on an iPad. To see more sketches, join us on Facebook. All sketches, text and material are © Ruchita Madhok, 2012. Please do not distribute...
Interview: Sandeep Sangaru
At a time when design is being examined as a force for social change, Sandeep Sangaru is a name that often comes to mind. He is best known for his innovations in bamboo and this multi-disciplinary designer has been closely associated with initiatives to provide training and skills to people in norther-eastern India since 2004....
The Rise of the Design Event
Designers are a social breed: we like to mingle, exchange ideas, bounce concepts off one another’s heads, poke our noses into other people’s business and get involved in long discussions about little things. We find it re-affirming to look, see, hear, experience, taste and sample other people’s work because it gives us the...
Amul’s India
Growing up in Mumbai, the one thing I looked forward to on the morning bus trip was the unmissable Amul hoarding at Mahim Causeway. Every week, once a week for all my school going years, that one hoarding would bring a smile to the day. Sometimes it would be a giggle at a piece of...
A Bag Full of Colour
A recent assignment on packaging design gave me the chance to explore an intriguing yet often overlooked segment of retail in the country: the wholesale market. I say ‘overlooked’ because most packaging designers work on products sold directly to consumers through supermarkets, corner shops and home delivery networks. But there is a thriving, incredibly colourful...
Design Without a Track
When the Railways Minister announced a contribution of Rs. 10 crore for the establishment of a dedicated railways design wing at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, there was a great sense of vindication among the design community. For the first time, the 2012-13 Rail Budget includes a nod towards the role that design can...
Creating Postage to Celebrate 50 Years of Design Education in India
The tiny postage stamp is an often overlooked piece of communication design particularly in an increasingly electronic world where fewer letters are written every year, and fewer cards sent. From being an ubiquitous carrier of images on the corner of every envelope, it has taken on a more symbolic role as an object that commemorates...
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