Category: DESIGN
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Deconstructing the Ravana Effigy Making Craft of Tatarpur, Delhi and meeting the Ravanwalas
A line of effigies shaped in bamboo in the form of humongous heads, giant mustaches, and fearsome eyes, lie around on an open road. Some are ready to be painted, some are getting their finishing touches, while others are all decked up to be assembled. Besides the heads are huge structures of limbs and torsos that range from a few feet to about three or four storeys high. These effigy parts lying around are of the mythical demon king of Lanka, ‘Ravana’ in Hindu mythology. And the place we are describing is popularly known as the “Lanka of Delhi'', ‘Tatarpur’.
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Spotting Student Talent: Makeup & Styling
Makeup artists and fashion stylists together have moved from the backstage players to the frontstage of fashion today, becoming celebrated for their creative work as image-makers for magazines, advertising, and fashion designers. Featuring five such budding individuals, this month’s Student Talent is a mind-blowing mix of eccentric makeup artists to a visionary filmmaker and an unconventional fashion stylist.
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Spotting Student Talent: 5 Startup Journeys
The best encouragement a budding entrepreneur can receive is - ‘acknowledgment’. Life is all about seizing the right opportunities which come in fleeting moments, and the ones who act upon it, eventually make all the difference. In the second series of our Student Talent feature, we scouted for five talented entrepreneurs featuring their startup journeys, along with a pat on their backs for inspiring us with their creative thirst.
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Spotting Student Talent: 5 inspiring think tanks of art and design
The pandemic gave us much to ponder over, especially it gave us the time to stop, sit back and look at things and activities that truly inspire us. As students we often get buried in coursebook assignments and are left with no time to pursue a skill we are truly passionate about. However the quarantine nurtured some unique creative talent and we spotted a few budding think tanks of art and design who bloomed into magnificent masterpieces. Sharing their art / illustrations through a social platform like Instagram, students from various fields pursued art in various forms and started to get noticed for their artistic techniques.
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Five tips to make the best of your 30 Day Design Challenge
Dear challengers. While design challenges are fun and force you to think, they can also be used as a tool to learn, build your portfolio and open up your mind to different perspectives to the same problem. Here are 5 quick tips on how you can make the most of this 30 day design challenge.
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Join 30 days of design madness: Sign Up for our Design Challenge!
Dear Designers, I know it’s the pandemic. And pandemics are hard. So to keep us all inspired, I designed a 30 day design challenge for you. Let’s think “design” to solve problems, doodle creative solutions and critique constructively with peer feedback.
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Meet KWOHTATIONS, celebrating life and identities that remain underrepresented in greeting card aisles
Meet Janine Kwoh, often found in an apron - letter pressing a greeting card on an antique printing press, and then hand painting each one of it to make it truly one-of-a-kind. Commercially known for her brand name KWOHTATIONS, she is the owner / artist / one-person assembly line behind a handmade stationery company and letterpress print & design studio, based in Brooklyn, NY.
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Meet Cody, a Calligraphy Artist: On running her own small business, its highs & lows and her creative journey
Not too often do you meet people who have been all over the professional planet with their varied career experiences. But when you meet one, you instantly recognize that creative soul that won’t settle. Cody, a 29-year-old, based out of her home studio in the St. Clair West neighborhood of Toronto, spends her weekends taking calligraphy workshops that are full of fun - flowing through her effortless sense of humor and approachability to her teaching style.
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In conversation with artist PAVI SANKAR: on art as satire and a revolution in India
Pavi Sankar, a fresh and ecstatic artist who hails from Panchavilakam, near Neyyattinkara, has put his artistic stamp on the walls of Kochi, India. Here is a one-on-one with Pavi, featuring his view on the changing landscape of Indian art, and about his digital paintings which feature a mix of political satire and western Indian art.