A happy Friday to all. This weekend if the heat has grounded you at your homes and you are still figuring what to do, we have some really interesting recommendations coming from Saurabh Kanwar who is president at Flarepath, digital division of Nexsales. He has also founded the online art community, Visual Disobedience. Book- Sleights of Mind: [...]
May 23, 2013
Kyoorius Knocks
Currently based in London, German freelance illustrator and designer Karolin Schnoor would be dating none other than Bruce Springsteen if she had a time machine. Read on to know more about her plans: At what point were you absolutely sure that this is what you want to do? I think sometime towards the end of [...]
May 22, 2013
The Bike Maker
Made by Hand is a brilliant project from the Bureau of Common Goods, started in September 2011. With a strong focus on craft, Made By Hand chooses products (and people behind those products) that have been created locally and sustainably. They also run an online shop where they sell stuff, well, made by hand. The [...]
SKETCHNOTES
This time we bring a dash of fun and mischief with the week’s Sketchnotes. Meet Abhijeet Kini, a super-illustrator. Kini is a regular illustrator for Tinkle Comics and many national publications. You can also spot posters by Kini in Comic Con, India and comics like Uud Bilaw Manus and Milk and Quickies. He is an animator who [...]
May 21, 2013
In conversation with Bodhisatwa Dasgupta
The Dolch Word List is a list of frequently used words compiled by Edward William Dolch, PhD, a major proponent of the “whole-word” method of beginning reading instruction. The list was prepared in 1936. The list was originally published in his book Problems in Reading in 1948 (courtesy: Wikipedia) Now, The Dolch Project is an [...]
Guest Post: Kundalini Arts
I was told to write about pieces of of Indian creativity from a personal point of view. I was unsure of how to go about this; I was born in India, but have grown up in the U.S. Although I’ve traveled throughout the country, and recently worked in Mumbai as an art director for over [...]
May 20, 2013
Happy birthday LEVI’S® 501®
So today’s happy discovery was that 140 years back (1873) one of the most universal and ubiquitous brand was born on 20th May- LEVI’S® 501®. Here is a great documentation on how the brand has influenced generations, trends, movements and attitudes: And here are some vintage Levi’s 501 posters to induce some blissful nostalgia.
Week starter
The complexity of Jake Fried- This brilliant artist creates these ‘retro-futurist’ (as he calls them) hand-drawn experimental animations or “moving paintings”. So how he executes this piece of surrealist moving art is, instead of illustrating each frame on a different sheet, he layers the one frame by adding and subtracting these extramental elements. And what’s [...]
May 17, 2013
WEEKEND SHAKERS
Finally, a well-earned weekend is here. And this time we have some interesting recos by the Delhi based photographer Saadiya Kochar. Book:Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Absolutely essential for anyone dealing with existential angst. Film: Marooned In Iraq One of my favourite love stories, directed by Bahman Ghobadi. TV Series: The Big Bang Theory (Season 6) Sheldon Cooper [...]
May 16, 2013
KYOORIUS KNOCKS
“To be honest I am not sure even today if this is what I want to do,” says acclaimed documentary photographer Sanjay Austa. Read on. At what point were you absolutely sure that this was what you want to do? To be honest I am not sure even today if this is what I want [...]
