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Pune Design Festival 2013: RE.gen.er.ate
In its 7th year of existence, the theme for Pune Design Festival (PDF ) this year was RE.gen.er.ate. Interestingly the conference and I started our design journey in the same year in Pune. I have...
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Behavioural and Attitude Change through Design
As the ‘Anti- Rape Protests’ died down and the trial of the six rape accused began in Delhi, the three member committee headed by former chief justice J S Verma submitted their report on the 23rd of...
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The Fearless Campaign | Art in the age of social media
The last couple of months have been rather dark, infuriating and intense. Post the horrific Delhi rape case, all forms of media have been abuzz with stories about rape, in its different shapes, sizes...
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Finding My Poetry in Design
Drawings of animal tracks and poetry related to animal specimen collecting by Vernon Orlando Bailey, 1890-1891 Recently we conducted a color workshop at one of the fine new design schools in India. The...
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Perch Project
Perch Project comes from Hazel Karkaria & Somesh Kumar, two communication designers. It is a project aimed at people looking for information around amateur animal rescue or upkeep. Ever found a...
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Lessons from the Grand Anaicut of Tamil Nadu
One rainy evening almost 2000 years back, a dark, well built man with a distinctly thick beard walked up to the banks of the River Cauvery near modern day Tiruchirapalli, deep inside the then Tamil...
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Menstrupedia
Thanks to Ria Rajan, I keep up to date on the latest and greatest fun, social and educational initiatives in India which come together because of good design. Another such informative project is the...
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Dekho: Conversations on Design in India (2012)
Dekho: Conversations on Design in India is the first of its kind effort at self-publishing an Indian perspective on the practice and context of designing for and in India. Nominated for Design...
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INK 2013 | All That Matters
Calloh!Callay! I finally made it out to INK. Well, InkLive to be accurate, but what the heck. Joy all around when I managed to score a press pass to cover the event. So I hopped onto the night train...
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Designwala Update
Courtesy Jyotika Purwar from the ‘Designwala Logo Series’ Designwala has been on a bit of a hiatus. I started DW a few years ago while working at a New York design agency, primarily to keep in touch...
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