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Niharika Pipariya “If I ever go missing, you’ll probably find me on the streets petting a dog.” Niharika Pipariya, student at NIFT Bengaluru is distinguished by her undeniable love for animals. She loves neutral colors, however, has an extreme opinion on everything under the sun. Deleting irrelevant information from her memory is her superpower. Or is it an explanation for being forgetful? Often spotted daydreaming about alternate endings to Bollywood movies. She loves watching psychological thrillers and criminal documentaries. She runs on caffeine and dislikes anything with sugar. Her dream to work in the fashion retail industry keeps her going at college.

Navyata Gali Navyata gali is a student of National Institute of Fashion Technology, Bangalore. Born and raised in Gujarat yet a telgite by heart. Since her very young age, she has been playing around visual communication as she believes everything has its own story and has their own characteristics. She was 15 years old when she made up a story where numbers had their own life! She did crack an interview by just talking to a pen as she believes that in real-world marketing self is as important as hard work and consistency in life.

Harshada Kamble Harshada Kamble is a twenty year old who looks like a twelve year old. She is a passionate fashion student who runs on coffee. Harshada describes her personality as a set of Russian dolls, needs to be unveiled layer by layer. ‘Blunt’ is the word used to describe her. She feeds her unattained dream of exploring the world by binging on the TLC tv network. She has an OCD to learn something new everyday. She has a thing for musicals, impulsively window shops, is a gadget head and swears by the phrase ‘Carpe Diem’.

Twinkle Pahwa Twinkle is a 21 years old visual communication designer based in Bangalore. She believes in the idea of combining aesthetics with the role of communicating right message to ideal market. She draws her inspiration from the world of visual arts in all it’s forms. She is absolutely passionate about finding solutions to the challenging design problems and one day she plans on becoming a renowned Creative director.

Anoushka Manohar Anoushka is a fashion novice in training, she is currently completing her graduation in National Institute of Fashion Technology, Bangalore. She is in her third year of college and is gradually figuring out how and where she fits into the charisma called the Fashion Industry. Her past times include berating people for calling chai, chai tea and updating her blog! She just came back from a 6 month exchange to Amsterdam and has returned as a true patriot of our country while stalking up her spice quotient in food!

She writes about her random Eureka’s and when something confuses her in order to gain some clarity!

Pavi Sankar pavisankar172gmail.com George Mathen appupen.wordpress.com Premchand Banala www.designdropout.com

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EDITOR’S COLUMN

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one are the days when Illustrators, designers, graphic designers used to take the back seat in the advertising world. With things today, they’re emerging as the forerunners of some amazing and memorable communication that is being recognized. The conservative and traditionalist will ever be arguing against the use of technology in school especially for arts and design. There might have a stronger ground for their argument since, in arts and design, it is more conceptualizing ideas and being able to deliver them through various methods which require handy actions by the use. However, the advantages that are being brought about using technology cannot be ignored.

There are tremendous and opens the field for more opportunities.

Moreover, the world is moving at a very high pace as far as technology is concerned and everyone needs to catch. It is, therefore, advisable to embrace the technology in the first place then come up with means that preserve the very building blocks that form the basis of all the different types of art and design works. This should be brought down to the specifics since all the works of art and affected differently using technology. Rejecting this new ear might solve just a single current problem but create endless issues in the future.

Asking children to picture or visualise their ideas is a powerful way of encouraging them to move into a fictional world. Children can

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be asked to picture the scene in their mind’s eye or walk round it in their imaginations. Finally, they can bring it to life recreating it in drawing, painting or other media.

Illustrating story settings or key events prompt children to imagine what a scene looks like or visualise it from a viewpoint. Like drama, it enables children to enter the world of the story and provides support for writing.

Today we are seeing an uprising against the over digitalized style work. We are seeing a rise in the popularity of traditional printbased media as designers are striving for the type of imperfection that was commonplace before the digital revolution. This can be seen today in many sources. In graphic design today people do not want to see lifeless art that looks digitalised. No longer does Western society want to see photorealism in design. The creative industry is actively looking for a personal touch in each bit of design that is viewed which can be Products are also seen gaining popularity in the design world, this is due to the unique hand rendered quality that gives the ability to touch the product

that is paid for, rather than just being sent a digital imitation of the original file. With work in the digital age, there is no essence of work. It is lost with the lack of physical hard copy of each piece.

With work created in a digital environment there is no such thing as an original. We can never be in ownership of an original copy of the digital piece of work, as it does not technically exist, but is simply a digital file. Replicas can be made extremely cheaply with digitally created work; all it takes is a printer connected to a computer to create a copy of any print that you create. The fact that work can be made quickly and cheaply makes art open to the masses. It leads to a less hierarchal and more democratic art ownership. An example of this is Andy Warhol and his work with the portraits of Marilyn Monroe. He used a famous image of Monroe, by Gene Korman for the film Niagara, as the basis for a series of silkscreened images. Although Warhol did create his own work, he used the language of repetition to show how art can be mass produced. Although his work is produced on a huge scale, the work he creates is very rare and expensive.

One of the most important developments of the digital age is communication. As designers we receive most of our work through electronic means be that e-mail, portfolio websites or just through forums. The use of e-mail has completely changed the way that designers communicate. WHY? Before the popularity of e-mail grew, designers were completely at the mercy of their clients. If clients telephoned, with regards to work, a company and no one answered the phone they would probably lose the commission. This contrasts today where a client can just send an e-mail to the company and it will be read, maybe not instantaneously but it means that the company had not missed work. With emails, we have the options for things like ‘Out of office auto replies’, which makes the client aware that it may not be responded to straight away but has been noted. One contrast about e-mails is that in this age they are not considered as a personal way of communication. We have lost the interaction with the client as it is hard sometimes to portray your point or opinion through text. This could lead to confusion due to a piece of work not being to the specifications that the client could not express through typing.

In Western society, many artists have utilised both traditional and digital mediums.

These ideas show people how both mediums can come together in harmony to create an exciting pieces. One such artist is look at positives and negatives.

When we look at the digital revolution and consider how it has affected technology, we must look at the impact change has had on the digital side of graphic design. One area that shall be focused on, that is actively changed, is the area of motion graphics and animation. We have seen the art of the title sequence change over time.

By looking at the sales figures of software like Adobe Flash we can see how popular interactivity has become. There are many websites and tutorials dedicated to flash-based gaming, as well as applications and advertisements and with their popularity we can see exactly how interactivity has become a pivotal part of graphic design. We are also seeing interactivity being spread to our mobile phones with the ‘Android Marketplace’, the ‘Apple App’ store as well as brand specific mobile applications shops. It has been another source of revenue for interactive designers. “Most interaction designers work on software, websites, and other technology like mobile devices. But interaction designers can also design services which have little to no technology in them.

Even in this digital age there are many specialised traditional mediums in the forefront of design. In the area of print, such as mono-printing or silkscreen printing, there is currently an uprising in popularity in both traditional and hand rendered designs. By using techniques such as collaging we are seeing designers using a hands-on style of working. By working by hand, it allows designers to create one-off pieces or to create many individual unique pieces that add value when being resold.

Example. The physical ownership is one of the main factors in purchasing of art. Mediums such as sculpture or paint still cannot be accurately replicated in the digital world, even with the recent advancements; there is no way for designers to be hands on with the medium they are using to create their piece.

Interactivity is one of, if not the main benefactor of the digital revolution. We are now able to create pieces where people interact with the things they see on screen. This has opened up a whole range of ways that designers can involve the viewer in the piece. For example, on a website now people can be made to click on the specific area that they want to see, if you want to see football results you could click on the football on a webpage and be taken straight to that specific site. Not only are people looking at work online, now they are actively involved in the piece.

Bandersnatch (Black mirror) states that that interactivity has made easier ways into entertainment not limiting to just gaming.

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CREATIVITY

Anoushka Manohar

The box Think. Think. Think outside the box. Think inside the box. Think. Think.

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didn’t know that it had. I sat on the wooden bench looking at my beautiful masterpiece. Even as a 5-year old I was proud. No scenery had ever challenged nature’s beauty like this one. The mountains stood proud and tall with their snow-covered peaks while the sun peeked out mischievously between them. It made the river, which flowed exactly perpendicular to the mountains, glitter like gold. The presence of civilization was prominent due to the house with the bright red roof next to the cotton balls shaped trees. The birds flew high and far above the mountains defying logic and gravity. It was perfect and it was all mine. I looked around excitedly wanting to share it with the world.

Only to realize and be extremely disappointed that we all were sitting in the same class with the same masterpiece and the same sense of achievement.

Suffice to say that my first lesson in creation comprised of the fact that everyone thinks the same. I was repeatedly told by my teachers that I need to be different. ”Think out of the box”, said the teacher when I started painting. “Think out of the box”, said the teacher when I started writing. “Think out of the box”, said the teacher when I wanted to crack my college exam. This theory got so out of hand that after some time people started talking about thinking inside the box just to ensure that they were different. What a wild goose chase right?

Until one day I sat down and wondered,” What is the box?”

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I think the concept of the box stems from being distinguished from others. When you’re in a non creative field, it’s about getting the most marks. You know, everyone remembers whose the smartest. In design, everyone remembers whose the most different, when you see what you’ve never seen before. That’s what we base a good design on right?

Remaking something in a way no one thought possible or that which makes your life easier. Branding something and evoking new emotions.

It’s all about being different, new and seeing the world differently. It’s a lot of pressure honestly.

Sometimes I wonder why my teacher in the first grade drew a scenery and showed us what one looked like? Why not let us draw one and then tell us what one looked like. Why nip our free thinking in the bud and then make us spend our entire life condemning us for it? If a creative mind is what we strive for, then why not let us keep the most creative part of us? The child. I am not saying that we don’t need an education or the system is flawed beyond repair. I am merely stating that before we are told about the existing and the correct, we should be allowed to think and imagine all that we can. I believe that only when we are capable of irrational thought and imagination, only then the rational part of us kick starts to catch up. Thus leading us to dispose off our boxes and leaping headfirst into a world of possibilities. That is what we as designers and creators need to do now, channel the internal child in you. Talk about candies and magic and disobey rules. Don’t use margins, use a serif font for a large body of text or place a 12 point text in a 8 by 8 book. Go crazy, create, fumble, give up and then try again.

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DESIGN CULTURE

Twinkle Pahwa

Marketing and genZ

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t might sound pretty old but a lot has changed since 1995. That was a very eventful year, Indian cinemas got it’s longest running Hindi film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Bombay, the entertainment capital of India was renamed as Mumbai and the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, the most convenient public transportation was founded in this year amongst many other events. But what was most important was the birth of a whole new generation, Gen Z.

span of about eight seconds. Gen Z’ers are used to being provided information quickly and in visual forms. There’s a reason why they are drawn to Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube. Also, they prefer to watch video ads only on their mobiles.

Influencer a more reliable celebrity

Gen Z’ers are just not into national heroes like cricket celebrities or Film Stars. They are into their peers as influencers. They are young people who have established their “celebrity” on social media.

Brands these days ask these fashion bloggers, tech-gurus or Makeup artists to endorse their products.

Who is GenZ? Generation Z, also known as PostMillennials, the iGeneration, or the Homeland Generation is the demographic cohort following the Millennials.

Gen Z is the new age of people. They are the most diverse, multicultural generation in our history. They are more broad-minded than their elder millennials, they do not see gender in terms of societal, career, etc, roles.

They follow “action speaks louder than words” moto. They are known to be multitaskers and they also process information much faster than other generation as they live in the world of continuous updates.

When it comes to education, Gen Z’er prefers to follow a non-traditional route to learn. If they know they are capable of learning something themselves, or through a more efficient alternative like the internet, they’ll take that opportunity. This generation growing with technology, probably for them it’s hard to go out without their devices. This generation is constantly on their phones or devices and not watching as much live TV, due to which a massive shift in advertising methods and marketing is seen. Here is a how-to guide to selling your product to Genz’s effectively and efficiently: Gen Z doesn’t want to waste time reading. Studies show that Genz as a digital consumer has an attention

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Value for money

The brand should not advertise only the products features, attributes etc but also should show how their product fits into the user’s life. Advertising to Gen Z shouldn’t be about selling. It should be about the value the brand can offer.

Buying Behavior

GenZ’s buying behavior is different from that of Millenials. Millennials stress more about money than them as they came from an age during the recession. Due to which they are more likely to click to an ad whereas the GenZ’s appreciates the option of skip ads and uses it as much as possible.

Mobile User Experience

This Generation uses multiple screens but prefers mobile over others.

Thus, e-commerce websites should be more mobile user-friendly than desktops if they want GenZ’s as their customers. Brands need to figure out to sell their story to this new age. Surely capturing their attention will wince twice as critical thinking as it takes for millennials.

CREATIVITY

Anoushka Manohar

Design and hope

*Musings about a design conference on November 5, 2017* Decisions.

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likes making them. Some are tough, some are easy, some change your life, some don’t. Choosing a career for example. Seems rather easy, find your passion make it your career so that you don’t have to work for a single day of your life. Work becomes play and all of that. It’s all fun and games until you have to make this decision when you’re 18.

When I was 18 I would have an anxiety attack when I saw a question in my exam paper that was out of syllabus and I was supposed to decide what syllabus I was gonna study for the rest of my life?

But being stuck in an educational curriculum that gives you no other way I did what I had to. I chose Design along with the million other people. We all joined college with robust enthusiasm and a huge cloud of confusion on our heads. Enthusiasm because well we were finally ‘college kid’ and confusion regarding what we were gonna do here? I mean how do you study design? Well the enthusiasm faded and confusion morphed into something called doubt. We doubted ourselves,our future, our abilities. But more than these things we doubted Design. Since we were more or less uninformed we didn’t understand where designers sat in the jobs section. We had never really seen them in play and up close. I mean what was the Design Industry?

At this doubtful point in my life, I decided to go for the Kyoorius Design Yatra held in Goa from the 12th of October to the 14th of October 2017.

It is said to be India’s greatest conference on design and innovation. It consisted of a variety of speakers from all over the world. The theme for this year’s conference was Optimism and we heard many many versions of it. Speakers like Cheryl Heller talked about the concept of Social Design and how designing for the other 90% is the kind of optimism we need. Madhav Raman an Anagram Architect talked about the concept of Multiverse and how we can choose the reality we want to work with thus putting an end to the boxed in and out of the box thinking. He said that optimism is thinking that there are a lot of boxes. Christopher

Doyle a Creative Director at Christopher Doyle & Co., Australia talked about confusion in designing a logo or an advertisement. He said that when you’re designing something Uneasy is good, Uncomfortable is okay but Not Knowing is powerful. He stated that the middle point between No Idea What I’m Doing and I Know Exactly What I’m Doing is called optimism. He also culminated a designers life in one sentence- ” I’m rarely, but somehow always, happy” Noriaki Once or Noddy gave a fascinating speech about how designers in everyday life have to deal with the UIC’s- Unpredictable Irrational Customers. Thomas Widdershoven gave the designers advice regarding understanding products and selling them efficiently. To understand a thing you must think of what it is not. For example It is the emptiness of the bowl that defines the bowl.

And the speeches went on and on, each more incredible then the last.

Sameul Ball talked about how optimism and design are concepts best exhibited in his 5 year old daughter, someone who truly thinks outside the box simply because she has not been taught what the box is.

Out of all the speakers, one struck a nerve in my doubtful mind. Prasanna Sankhe, A JJ School of Art and Architecture graduate talked about how confidence is optimism. He stated that he simply did not understand why he did not see such confidence in designers all around. He started giving reasons and facts regarding why such a change is required. The design industry in India alone is worth 3900 crore rupees. He told us that the reason we do not hear of a sole designer in the field of graphics and advertisement is because no one wants to sell their creative integrity to get more famous and earn more money. As confused as we are, even as students we are hesitant to change our concepts based on others. One by one he knocked all my doubts away, away and way out of the grounds.

As Prasanna Sankhe was telling us to believe in ourselves and our work, I looked around. I looked at the Professionals, The Young Bloods in the industry and the students to realize that we are all in the same boat.

There were around 1000 people there at the conference and I realized that these people were the Design Industry, I was the Design Industry and I was going to take it high and beyond with confidence and optimism at my back.

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PAVI SANKAR “Passion is powerfully spirited, it’s set in stone. Once it grips your heart, there is no going back.”

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avi Sankar, a fresh and ecstatic artist who hails from Panchavilakam, near Neyyattinkara, has put his artistic stamp on the walls of Kochi, India. He is best described as a ‘passionate soul balanced with a heart which craves liberation’. Stepping up the popularity ladder, he has recently left many mesmerized with his graffiti work and digital art on his fabled instagram page and recently he was also invited as a speaker for Tedx. Pavi’s digital paintings feature a mix of political satire and western Indian art.

“My art is from the heart, a whimsical reaction to everything around me, often topical, often satirical. It does not conform to a particular style, only I aim for - is a good finish,” muses the down-to-earth youngster, known for his dry wit. He started off his career by creating drawings using charcoal and color chalks on the walls of his house. “I’ve been drawing and sketching ever since I can remember. After my secondary education (from Government Boys High School, Neyyattinkara), bowing down to family pressure, I joined a polytechnic institute. I lasted precisely three months there. That’s when I came to know about Fine Arts and signed up for a BFA degree in painting,” says Pavi.

“I can draw anything and everything and as an artist everything and everyone inspires me.”

Not surprisingly, Pavi says he is a great fan of Banksy, the Englandbased graffiti artist with an unverified identity. “Banksy’s works are my inspiration as they offer freedom of expression without a fear of being restricted. His satirical street art combines dark humor with graffiti, executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. He works with black and white shades that convey deep meanings. His work, Girl with a Red Balloon in London motivated me for Wall for Peace, the graffiti work in Kochi and Trivandrum,” says Pavi.

Being a freelance artist who has made his artistic signature on many public and private places in the city, the 25 year-old observes, “Digitalized paintings open up new arenas to explore art and drawing.

But performing 3D works using digital tools kills the originality. The feel and satisfaction that we receive by drawing with our own hands cannot be achieved in digitized canvas and tools.”

“Why does life these days have to begin and end at the barrel of the gun? Let’s approach life as children would do it, full of innocence, love, peace, fun and camaraderie,” he adds.

Pavi’s landmark work or art in Kochi is best described as a graffiti in Kochi -where a soldier looks on somberly, as the girl extends a flower to him from the basket of flowers that she is carrying, reminding us of those iconic images of the ‘flower children,’ who offered flowers to armed soldiers as a reminder of peace, during demonstrations against the Vietnam War. To reinforce the point, more pink blooms are scattered on the ground amid and on top of menacing guns and grenades. This graffiti brought him more offers in movies for poster making.

However, Pavi is unhappy as the series had to be confined to only two paintings, one in Manaveeyam Veedhi and the other in Palarivattom, Kochi. On asking him the reason and he says, “People constantly compare our works with legendary artists. The ideas and works of new artists are not valued much. I don’t believe that art should be framed and kept inside the four walls or circulated only through social media. One should accept the revolution and modernization in art also. If nudity is depicted in the work it is tagged as obscene here.”

His next attempt is to work on photographs and mix them with art on a`Save Water’ campaign as he believes water will be the reason for the next World War. “Art is not stable, neither am I, we change according to the evolution of our thoughts,” he signs off.

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George Mathen LIVING BETWEEN BANGLORE AND HALALA

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eorge Mathen or as most people know him as Appupen made his way into the illustrating world through his first graphic novel Moonward in 2009. His stark black white style of illustrating soon became iconic. Appupen’s art has appeared in various art galleries, restaurants, pubs, cafes and retail outlets across India .He is also regular with his commissioned stories in various magazines.

Appupen stems from the Mallyalam word that means ‘old man’. In many ways, it is connected to stories. When you’re told stories as a kid, there’s always this appupen and ammuma who tell the story. I’m also called Appu at home, and Appu’s pen name is Appupen. A perfect pen name that represents his art and the creative storyteller in him.

Graphic Novels by Appupen are essentially connected to Halala and the adventures that occur there. Moonward (2009) revealed the birth and journey of life on Halahala, a fantasy world that sometimes darkly mirrors our own. His second book, Legends of Halala (2011) has no words and became a major success among today’s low attention span youth. It is a book of five silent love stories from across the vast expanse of Halahala and time.In his third book, Aspyrus ( 2014) the dragon called Asyrus enters the realm of Halala. Even its name, Aspyrus, is a corpo¬rate-sounding word, which comes from the word aspira¬tion.” His latest graphic novel is ‘The Snake and the Lotus‘. It is a 272 page adventure of a mysterious new hero, at a time when the dying diminutive humans and their legacy of AI machines threaten the continuity of life itself in Halahala. The ancient Silent Green breaks its silence and calls for help – to any who can still listen. The Snake And The Lotus is a deeply anti-capitalist fable as well as a superhero fantasy, and an end-of-times science fiction dystopia.

He uses an omniscient narrative voice, but even the true location of that voice is a mirage. “I wanted the voice to be of someone that is not human. Therefore, I wanted to use a language which removed all human cultural references,” he says. Appupen fashioned a specific script for this, modelling it on the Elvish runes of J.R.R. Tolkien.

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The underlying meaning of Appupen’s novels is all similar. It is based his stand against advertising and consumerism. He attacks the capitalist nature of our world with his comics by exaggerating the effect that they really have. The Consumerism which is actually a snake in out world slithering and whispering in our ears is actually a dragon called Aspyrus in Halala. Aspyrus is an incredibly likeable character, says Appu¬pen.

“He’s got a really likeable face. You see him and you think he’s real¬ly cute and that’s his way of getting inside your head and once he gets in, he starts to suck. So he’s taking over the world. This character was designed by certain logos and products, which have a similar softness that appeal to everybody.” The central idea is that of the dragon that has enslaved sev¬eral generations of minds. Says Appupen, “It happens to be a creature that feeds on people’s minds.” However he does not believe that he is an activist, just an artist with an opinion and a platform to voice it.

Appupen uses pen, brush and ink to give his panels a woodcut effect.

He has more or less stuck to this style in his other graphic novels, Moonward and Legends Of Halahala (2012), However he did turn to watercolour for Aspyrus (2014). He was directly influenced by, and sought to pay homage to, the American graphic novel pioneer Lynd Ward. But where Ward used actual woodcuts, Appupen chose brush, ink and pen.

“I can’t do woodcuts. So I used A3 paper and did the outlines with a onepoint thickness pen. The fills and some of the shading are done with the brush,” he says. He uses Adobe Photoshop for cleanups. Sticking paper over screwed up parts of the page and making corrections is a norm but he does clean up the edges of the new paper after scanning. Appupen uses InDesign for making and designing the books.

Armed with a skewed vision of the world, darkly vivid art and a satirical bite, he is a unique voice in Indian comics and comics in general.

Combine that with his clearly gifted way of drawing, it is no surprise why he is one the biggest names in Indian comics right now. Appupen’s work possesses a brutalism and otherness that can be bracing. But that’s also what makes his art so compelling and un-forgetful.

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EXHIBIT Ashish There was a time when Bihar was a grand state associated with great names like Ashoka the great king, Buddha the enlightened one , Mahavira the founder of Jainism. It was the starting point for Mahatma Gandhi’s first revolt. It sat on the highest level of stature due to it’s fruitful history and culture. However that is not the case today. How did this magnificent state turn into a negative slang?

This when Ashish Kaushik and Rishi Raj, two young –blooded residents of Bihar set about to change this perception. This project takes us through the nooks and crannies of the true Bihar. It was done by a team of 4 Individuals and consisted of Videos and Pictures.

Rishi was obviously behind the lens for these amazing shots while Ashish Kaushik was the videographer. They made a set of three videos showcasing the lesser known gems of Bihar. They decided to not focus on the usual two to three tourist sites that people knew of in Bihar like the Bodh Gaya, but wanted to show Bihar through the eyes of a local. They focused on the beautiful sites and tales of valour that are being passed down as stories through the generations. The second video is a short clip associating us with Bihar’s equivalent of Taj Mahal, the Dashrath Manjhi Path.

Dashrath Manjhi was born in a Musahar family, at the lowest rung of caste system. He ran away from his home at a young age and worked at Dhanbad’s coal mines. He returned to his village and married Falguni Devi. Falguni Devi died after an accident due to not receiving immediate medical care, as there were no nearby hospitals.

Thinking that no one else should suffer this fate, he resolved to build the road to make his village more accessible. Manjhi felt the need to do something for society and decided to carve a path through the Gehlour hills so that his village could have easier access to medicare.

He carved a path 110 m long, 7.7 m deep in places and 9.1 m wide to form a road through the rocks in Gehlour hill. He said, “When I started hammering the hill, people called me a lunatic but that steeled my resolve.” He completed the work in 22 years (1960–1982).

This path reduced the distance between the Atri and Wazirganj sectors of the Gaya district from 55 km to 15 km. Though mocked for his efforts, Manjhi’s work has made life easier for people of the Gehlaur village. Later, Manjhi said, “Though most villagers taunted me at first, there were quite a few who lent me support later by giving me food and helping me buy my tools.

The video documents the path along with a vivid description of Dashrath Manjhi’s life, told by Ashish Kaushik. It captures the mountains and the path in all it’s glory. A drone was used in order to capture these angles. The project was funded by Quicklift, Dezine Quest and Gopal Narayan Singh university. It was further been shared on various platform including Bihar Tourism and has played a significant role in moulding Bihar’s image into a better light.

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EXHIBIT Karthik Raj Karnataka State Government organised an open competition for people to build an image for Bengaluru City to promote Tourism in the city.

Beyondevolution.art , a branding and advertising agency created an identity that reminds the world of the people and the places that made Bengaluru what it is now.

“Reminding people of Greatness.

An identity that tells a 480-year rich history.

Let’s not leave the heart behind.”

Bengaluru has been one of the best urban cities in India carrying a lot of cultural heritage in its books. Being known as the “Garden City” and also at one point in time, the city was also referred to as the pensioner’s paradise. And over the years, the city has developed tremendously in terms of business, commerce, entertainment, education, technology and so on. And also not to forget Bengaluru has been ranked the most dynamic city in the world, ahead of Silicon Valley and Boston in the US. People come here from around the world. They come here to live in the heart of the city, visit places of attraction, enjoy nights in rock shows and pubs.

As history speaks, no city is built in a day. The city might have drawn attention from around the world for its rapid growth in every possible field. But let’s not forget those laid the path for us to enjoy every second of our stay in this beloved city. The Great Bangalore Fort built in the 15th century was the foundation from where it grew steadily into a town and later into a city, Lal Bagh which made the city a beautiful place to live in, Chitrakala Parishath which maintains the cities rich old art and cultural tradition and Electronic City which climbed past Silicon Valley just to make Bengaluru the most Dynamic city on Planet Earth.

“The visual identity looks more like building a history, rather than building a story supporting the city. The shape also looks too organic and also a thing that keeps developing regardless of the area/field. The city just keeps reaching better.”

It’s more about “We”.

“In a world where everything is accompanied by something, where thousands of hands came together to build the gorgeous Taj Mahal, where the evolutionary thinkers built garages next to each other to create an idea creation place called Silicon Valley, where the Wodeyars built a palace that translated so much culture and history into a piece of wonder called the Mysore Palace, everything isn’t just about a person and his experience. It’s much more than that. It’s more than a single person. It’s more than a dozen of people. It’s more than an organisation of people. It’s more about a city full of people. No city is built in a day, not by a single person. It’s a tribute to those who helped each other to build the Bangalore Fort, those who chiselled out the citie’s culture at Chitrakala Parishath, those gardens at Lal Bagh who still keep the city a Green Garden, those who spent hours in developing Electronic city and it goes on.

Let’s celebrate the city that gave us everything. We Bengaluru.”

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Niharika Piparia

Why we compete?

Somewhere qmidst the swarming echoes of a million #metoo’s, the ‘weaker vessel’ began to rise together. We witnessed it happen. We stood up for the women of neighboring countries and the sea across when she was treated wrongly. But, did we raise our words when the one next to us was not giving the overdue promotion she deserved? A glimpse into the everyday life of women at work. How do we empower one another when we look at each other as threats already?

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n excerpt from a blog I wrote for a women’s fashion brand awhile back.

“As women, we must stand up for each other.”

– Michelle Obama While The Devil Wears Prada may left us in awe of Meryl Streep as the epitome of women power, it also showed us the darker side of women at work. There are multiple instances when Andrea was judged on her dressing sense and excluded from important meetings at work. The undying jealousy between Emily and Andrea is a subtle portrayal of the chemistry between women co workers.

Few women are inherently competitive. We want to be the best, not just for ourselves but to prove to others that we can. Amidst the play of power at work, rises the female rivalry. We are all guilty of judging a fellow woman’s intentions at work solely based on her clothing, tone of communication or even just her ‘fake’ smile. Are we all trying to be men?

Why are women working to fit into brown leather oxfords when we were made for gorgeous red stilettos?

We simply look at our fellow female co workers as ‘potential threats’.

Watching our co workers do better at work and gain brownie points from the boss makes them come off as threats. Top performer of the month?

Sure. We begin to perceive them as rivals. Most of us have goals driven by dreams or insecurities. A power struggle to that goal is never a good sign.

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otherwise make a great set of girlfriends. Some of this also has to do with the fact that the male is to female ratio at work is quite large. The harsh scrutiny of limited female positions only increases competition.

So how exactly can we stop this chain reaction? Don’t let a one-time encounter affect you personally.

Kathi Elster and Katherine Crowley., authors of Mean Girls at Work: How to Stay Professional When Things Get Personal, say “Women are complicated. While most of us want to be kind and nurturing, we struggle with our darker side – feelings of jealousy, envy, and competition. While men tend to compete in an overt manner – jockeying for position and fight to be crowned ‘winners’ – women often compete more covertly and behind the scenes. This covert competition and indirect aggression is at the heart of mean behaviour among women at work.”

Social Media Influencer and Activist, Lilly Singh started a massive online movement “#GirlLove” to end girl on girl hate and empower women with confidence and leadership. Growing up as an immigrant she often experienced hate and racism which, to her surprise, was mostly by women. The fundraiser campaign’s profits contributed to the Malala Fund for girl empowerment.

Let’s stop seeing each other as competition and more as sisterhood of the same lineage. Demeaning one another will only break us apart.

Complement her on that new skirt she probably wasn’t going to wear to work. Tell your desk neighbour she’s doing a great job as a single mom.

Congratulate her on the promotion. Don’t let competition take over our feminity, let’s embrace it.

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ADVERTISING Saurav Roy Freelancer Saurav Roy, a graduate of Fashion Communication at National Institute of Fashion Technology career go-to designer has become more prominent branding projects. He was perhaps best known for his influential and simple Branding and Visual merchandising projects.

His core areas include Retail Space Design, Store Design, Graphics, Photography with good command over various software, he looks forward to bettering his best.

Enroute – its first edition in 2016 focuses on ‘ideas and entrepreneurial journey’. Its mission is to aim to proactively emphasize the needs of society and individual by imparting a sense of responsibility to safeguard the overall wee being of a holistic environment. The graphic identity he made is fairly simple and utilitarian. Rather, each collateral was a blank canvas for neutral colors that express something unique to the style of branding.

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ADVERTISING Karthik Raj Vanakam chennai a.k.a madras

By Beyondevolution.art Co-founder- Karthik Raj An anti-entertainment human, romantic by ideas. Karthik has travelled through various journeys of the design hierarchy and has represented India at various levels.

Karthik Raj believes that design is evolutionary, and creates a huge impact, and can change the world. His work reflects the work and culture we follow. He might be a stickler in terms of deliverance but his project’s diversity and his flexibility as a designer might surprise you!

An exclusive collection of social media posts created for the brand ChipsNCo. 15 social campaign posts were synthesized depicting 15 popular portions. With artistic strokes of Taniya Pramanik and strategies of Under 25 Company, the beauty and essence of Madras are described through the social media posts. “The theme of this project was to introduce ChipsNCo products to the city of that keeps evolving with time, Madras. Inspiring from the people, culture, left out and lifestyle of the metropolis, 15 social campaign posts was synthesized depicting 15 popular portions. The inspiration for all the illustrations in this campaign is taken from the beautiful city of Chennai. The main product connects and adds a charm to the daily life of people in Chennai, turning the most mundane day into something exciting and fun!”

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ADVERTISING Hisam Puthalath Freelanc graphic designer

Hisam is a graphic designer who mostly speaks a language of his own and ensures that we speak it too when we see his illustrations.

My aim was to mirror the character of the brands/companies in the best possible way, to create and communicate a story for them all.”I appreciate the story telling aspect of any design.

Simplicity is fine and a must in our work but to back them with a well structured story is never to be compromised.”

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ADVERTISING Bhabna Banerjee The Art of Consuming Art A Live Illustration series on Alpo Snow’s ALPO KNOWS X NIKE An art gallery comprises two components- the art and its audience. It’s a complementary blend of these two elements that form the artistic ‘niche’ enclosed in a gallery space. My idea is to produce an illustration series focusing entirely on neither of the components, but on the bond between the artist and the viewer; the process in which the viewer consumes an artwork and ultimately resonates with it.

Besides the primary reason of illustration being my medium of choice, the inspiration of the series can be derived from my study of cinemas of attraction, based on an ancient flm philosophy that considered the spectator to be a part of an ‘attraction’- an artwork. To me, the philosophy is strongly evident in spaces like an art gallery where despite the artwork being noninteractive, the spectator contributes to the artwork and becomes a part of the space. Te series would also embody the style of the sportswear brand Nike as the bright and bold illustrations add to the exhibition’s vibrancy.

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BOOKS Akanksha Kukreja Graphic designer Srishti school of Art, Design and Technology A graduate of the Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology, Aakansha is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Mumbai. Presently working with Thought Over Design, her work spans Branding & Identity, Web design and Illustration.

After working as a Senior Branding + Digital Experience designer for two years at Thought Over Design, leading teams, managing projects and interfacing with clients, she is currently pursuing MFA in Design (at the MFA Designer as Author & Entrepreneur program at the School of Visual Arts, NYC.) She enjoys adapting her perception to meet the needs of the different audience through a variety of mediums of expressions. This project was titled as ‘Do Apes have Souls’. This book embodies an argument for and against what its form was originally designed to mimic: Duality.

This two-sided book questions the existence of duality and allows us to gain insight into substance dualism versus reductive physicalism. In a nutshell, it makes you consider whether the human mind and body are different entities or not.

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BOOKS Shrishti Agarwal Student and Freelancer National Institute of Fashion Technology “I don’t have a physical form, I am only a concept.”

Shrishti Agarwal is a vivid dreamer, mostly zoned out in her own universe. She is aware of the most random conspiracies/theories and might convince you to believe them too. Shrishti’s Instagram bio talks a lot about her character. She openly admits “Earth is not my home”.

She believes in a glass of lovely coincidences and limitless possibilities.

Did you know that green tea reduces the signs of aging? She is actually 82!

The word ‘Quench’ means to satisfy one’s thirst. Here, this project does the same. It satisfies your visual thirst.

This book give you drinks belonging to different parent color - Divided by different color, different taste and different elements yet united by the quench of thirst.

Paper cutting, set in decorative type elements and spacing. The word ‘Quench’ means to satisfy one’s thirst. Here, this project does the same. It satisfies your visual thirst. This the book give you drinks belonging to different parent color - Divided by different color, different taste and different elements yet united by the quench of thirst.

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EDITORIAL Natasha Bahadure Student and Freelancer National Institute of Fashion Technology Her illustrations, they are usually inspired by Asian style, comics, Japanese manga i.e. Japanese comic books, Asian faces, anime i.e. Japanese cartoons, Korean style & in some of my illustrations she has expressed her thoughts such as the illustration of a girl which has a monster behind her, the thought process behind that was “Everyone has a monster “an evil force” which keeps us away from doing the things we want to do & Its living inside each of us and that monster can be our greatest strength or our worst enemy but its up to us if we can control the monster we can be stronger than ever but if the monster controls then we can be worse than ever but the good news is we can control that monster if we decide to, so the decision is in our hand”

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EDITORIAL Ravi Kumar Student and Freelancer National Institute of Fashion Technology This collection says every individual will come through the frames of their own dreams , if you are a dream then I am dreamer, caught in an adorable fantasy of which I wish to never awake the frames of fantasy will take you from dreams to reality.

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FOR SALE Tosha Jagad Illustrator, Graphic designer, Potter Tosha Jagad is a Mumbai based Illustrator, graphic designer, and potter. Her work is minimal and bold, and her portraiture style is unique. She has three simple words to live by when it comes to inspiration and that is culture, people and forms. Love and Hate is Postcard People’s first collection of screen printed limited edition postcards!

They’re titled ‘Love and Hate’ because everything in the world must be balanced.

Typography is everywhere. It’s found on street signs, in the subway, on posters, in magazines, and of course, the Internet. It may sound a little invasive, but most typefaces you see around you have been carefully designed with an aim to express a specific feeling, brand identity, or to help readability. She merged typography with Clay lettering for children’ apparel and essential brand. They wanted to thank their followers and supporters in a fun way. Don’t we all like it when we are loved? She used playful colors to maintain the brand essence of the brand.

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FOR SALE Fayzan Sabba Freelancer Fayzan is a self taught graphic designer who is interested in showing the world his imagination through his illustrations. He loves to illustarte shoes. He gets inspiration from his surrounding.

He observes things.

In his illustartion called ‘man in the space‘, he has tries to depict - if anyone is willing to achieve anything, he can achieve it. The only major step that he has to force himself to take is to cross that boundary.

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FOR SALE Nayan Shrimali Interior designer National Institute of Design Nayan Shrimali is a furniture designer and art enthusiast based in India. After studying Furniture & Interior Design at NID, India, Shrimali is now a full-time paper cut artist. Alongside his partner, Vaishali Chudasama – a visual effects artist – the duo is known as NVillustration.

This particular series of paper cut artworks details some of the most iconic and inspirational characters from history. The artists explain: “We have been experimenting with paper cut art since last year.

We explored different types of paper art and methods to create something unique. In this series, we explore the details of human expression through different layers of papers.

All of the artwork is made with paper, a paper cutting knife and acrylic colours assembled carefully to depict the different personalities of the subjects. Although challenging, the duo describes the process as fun and rewarding. Check out more of their work here.

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FOR SALE Shaivalini Kumar Illustrator Asavari Kumar LA based Film Director and Illustrator Shaivalini Kumar was has been artistically inclined since she was a child—she is always sketching and learning from her surroundings.“I loved storytelling, and I soon understood that words are not the only way to tell stories,” she says. “As a result, illustration and lettering became the way I expressed myself.” Kumar’s style is vibrant and reflects her continuous striving to find the magic in ordinary things. Asavari Kumar is an LA based Film Director and Illustrator. Her work is primarily character driven with a unique, playful and pliable graphic style. She tells stories through animated films, paintings and interactive installations and strives to create immersive experiences that blur the line between the physical and virtual world.

Together they build Supernova.inc. The goal is to provide cross platform, innovative and creative design solutions though their multi-faceted designers and artists on a variety of projects.

Her great concept has paved a new series of digital art to lead the creative teams. The most unique aspect of his work is the variety. She can design detailed concept art for characters, environments, or anything similar. But he can also do stylized art & illustrations that stand out on their own. In this particular series, she made a series of monsters in the spirit of Halloween.

She limited herself to coloring them in orange and purple and since that felt more Halloween like.

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INSTITUTIONAL Arpit Bhattacharya Posters. Typography. Branding. Photography. Illustrations.

Arpit’s inspiration stems from his media like Pulp Fiction or Fight Club. It is as if all the notes from these movies are bought forward with a surrealistic and minimalistic edge. It’s a little bit of everything.

Arpit Bhattacharya finds his style and his voice as he completes his degree in National Institute of Fashion Technology, Bangalore.

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INSTITUTIONAL Pavi Sankar Freelancer “Why does life these days have to begin and end at the barrel of the gun? Let’s approach life as children would do it, full of innocence, love, peace, fun and camaraderie,” says Pavi,.Being a freelance artist who has made his artistic signature on many public and private places in the city, the 25 year-old observes that the Digitalised painting opens up new arenas to explore art and drawing.

But performing 3D works using digital tools kills the originality. The feel and satisfaction that we receive by drawing with our own hands cannot be achieved in digitised canvas and tools.

His choice of subjects - particularly in his show Portraits The variety of concepts, bring the marginalized, often old, sometimes piecemeal male body into sharp focus through hyper-realistic portraiture. His works are astonishingly powerful portraits of Men, women, and politics—typically crouched, naked, and confronting the viewer with fiery eyes and He uses colors accordingly.

With his monumental realism, he is among the most brutally honest and jolting as most of his works based political sarcasm.

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SELF - PROMOTION Sanjana Raveendran Digital artist Sanjana Raveendran, an 18 year old digital artist from Chennai. She grew up in a very artistic family so art has always been a part of her life.

She first started drawing digitally in 2016. She creates all her work using the app Procreate on an iPad Pro 10.5”. Artists she admires are Lois Van Baarle, Janice Sung and Jianlin Huang.

Her dream job is a fashion illustrator. Her series of artworks heavily included anime- Influenced style and slowly switched over to surrealism. She used bright colors and created kind of fantastic, trippy, woman-centric art that makes your brain sizzle.

Other pieces of her work flip the bird to prevailing standards of beauty, body image, and morality.

We can’t say if her art is meant to be empowering or not, but it’s a nice departure from the way Indian artists portrays women.

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SELF PROMOTION Ajay Chandran Artist Ajay finds joy in expressing the spirit and rawness lies within everything. Mostly he starts with a pencil sketch and the rest is visceral. Charcoal sticks and soft pastels are his go-to mediums with which he loves to explore and go deep into every artwork. With adding a very little color to his monochromatic works he finds an equilibrium. Explorations mostly never stop until he scans the artwork and refines it digitally to the core details with free-flowing scribbles.

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SELF PROMOTION Xena Ramakrishnan Comic artist, Student and freelancer National Institute of fashion Technology Xena Ramakrishnan is the creator of an online web- comic series called “The Higher Point of View” also known as @tallgirltoons where she shares her personal experiences of being a tall girl through over exaggerated comics. She is also one of the three founders of the brand BLAKA where they create and sell art in the form of illustrations and paintings. She eats, sleeps and breathes fashion and hopes to make a career out of it someday as she is presently pursuing her bachelors in design from the National institute of Fashion Technology, Bengaluru.

Xena fascination with human illustrations shows quite well through her work in her comic and Blaka.

Most of her work is digital prefers corel to illustrator.

Her colour schemes are what attract people to her illustrations, upbeat and complimentary.

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SELF PROMOTION Prem Kapoor Student National Institute of Fashion Technology Prem is an illustrator, dancer and beatboxer. Learning new things is what drives him. He gains inspiration from social media, mainly youtube. He keenly follows the type of content Indian sketch artists are doing. His journey as an artist started with a video of him sketching Bahubali when the movie had just graced it’s presence in the box office. He hasn’t stopped sketching since!

One marvels even more at the confident, beautiful lines of Prem’s drawings in light of the knowledge that he most assuredly would consider them working documents, unsuitable for exhibition.

What makes him special is his mastery of the sketching technique He needed just a few strokes to evoke not only the figure’s pose but also its emotional state. He demonstrated incredible facility in his drawings, with a hint of bombast. His hand was sure. He started with Bahubai when the movie was just released.

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SELF PROMOTION Lavanya Sahral Student National Institute of Fashion Technology A budding illustrator, Lavanya’s work is about adapting everyday occurrences on abstract backgrounds, giving the illustration a surrealistic element all the while ensuring that they are very relatable. She is an avid follower of the art movements. You can very easily pinpoint elements of impressionism, dadaism and pointilism in her illustrations. She innovates and works with various mediums on paper as well as on the procreate app. The abstract-ness in her illustrations is backed by the colour scheme that compliments each theme of the illustration easily.

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SELF PROMOTION Ravi Kumar Student National Institute of Fashion Technology Ravi has been illustrating since the time where walls were an okay canvas, i.e a very young age and he hasn’t stopped since. Happiest when left alone with a pen and a piece of paper, that is when his best work comes out. His drawings are mainly experimenting with drawing and fashion concepts. Ravi challenges himself through mixed media. He swears by concepts like aesthetics, simplicity and effective design.

This project of Ravi Kumar majorly included portraits where he mixes colorful, organc human forms from the art movement with a relaxed vibe. Adding a dash of colrs the result is electic and suprising. Color palette was limited to all pinks and purples, blues and reds.

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UNPUBLISHED Navyata Gali Student National Institute of Fashion Technology Navyata Gali interactive design student at Nationa Institute Of Fashion Technology who is passionate about branding, graphic designing, visual merchanding and art.

She is imaginative and good at coming up with fresh and creative ideas to appeal to ordinary people believes that in real-world marketing self is as important as hard work and consistency in life. She strongly believes in “Learning never exhausts the mind”.

Expanding and mixing a variety of artworks, evolving posters and illustrations play the notion of exploring and learning.

She made a different mark by putting up different content by all created from the same seed. She also added poster which was on Channaptna toys where she portrayed the essence of the craft through the bright colors used contracting to it she added a poster which highlighted the sexual abuse through dark and contrasting colors.

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UNPUBLISHED Shreyasi Pareek Student National Institute of Fashion Technology She is a rational idealist, passionate about art, tea and long walks who is fond of travelling, movies, music and writing about them. Being a former history student, she love digging into the past and finding out stories related to every place visited and enjoys documenting the small and often ignored observations and insights about people, places and life in general. Her interest in art and design is not only limited to what is projected on the screen, but understanding the process and thoughts put in to create that piece of art.

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FAVOURITES Three Illustrators Share Their Treasured Findings KC PRASHANTH

LORDSUN SIVAKUMAR

Center Coordinator (Fashion Communication) NIFT, Bengaluru Trusty reminder: You should document in and around people used to small sketchbook or notebook, used to sketch as and when they visualize anything, so they had book and hand to retrieve information. Now technology has taken its place, Cloud base things made things different. Observation and capturing things are must routine for good designers.

Splurge-worthy Investment: Good surfaces like bamboo. Worth of investing or scope of documentation Inspirational Projects: Museum design in China MAD architecture-ERDOS MUSEUM. Required reads: Hidden dimension, Human ape, Homosapiens (It talks about human) Handy tools: Tablets help better prepare for a world immersed in technology On a tablet, e-textbooks can be updated instantly to get new editions or information Healthy Habits: One should know what’s happening in and around self. Presence of mind is important and Sleep….get adequate sleep.

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Astonishing designer: Alexander McQueen, because of the time when I entered learning about fashion, he made a statement with his hard work and talent.

Creative Fuel: WGSN, Promostyl Creative exploration: Hollywood movies and Bollywood movies like Padmavati, Bahubali. I See costumes and styling it should be either historic or futuristic.

Challenge is always beyond the limit.

Healthy habits: one should keep exploring, should not limit them to books or google. One should always learn from observations, keep exploring and learning

VIVEK RAM Inspiration: Classical figurative art like Michelangelo, Bougeraou, etc. I’m also a huge Disney and Japanese anime fan and it reflects in my work. What I love about the classical masters is the attention to detail. Disney and anime are beautiful in its fluidity of motion.

Go-to tools: A display tablet or pencil and paper. It’s just a means to an end. Software is constantly changing. So I’m not a software loyalist. Any available software is fine as long as it lets me do my work efficiently.

Background research: research and references are very important. Not just when your working on a project but as a habit. Everything you learn and read and observe will always come back to your work. So the more you soak in, the better. Especially when working on a project, it’s very important to deep dive into research about the subject and using visual references.

Required reading: To be a better artist, read and understand the journey of artists and studios. What made them who they became. For figurative drawing, I would highly recommend “the elements of the form” by Elliot Goldfinger and figure drawing books by Steve Huston.

If you wish to be a storyteller, then the more stories you read(more than watch), the better it will be for your craft.

Healthy habits: Most healthy habits have already been mentioned. Read, pick up activities. Expand your visual vocabulary.

Also, take care of your health. Work out, indulge in physical activity.

Animation and art can be more injurious than alcohol and smoking if ur not careful!

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VASAV VARUN

Vasav Varun, a Ranchi based illustrator, unfurls a world in his diary where he draws anything and everything, he finds fascinating. Currently, he works at Idioms Design & Consulting Firm and is also a philanthropy artist. Recently he showcased all his work in an exhibition and where he gave all his earnings to the Kerela Relief Fund is also a philanthropy artist. His source for inspiration has evolved around his surroundings. His works depict an emotional atmosphere through the combination of black and white hues using basic methods like hatching and Pointillism. With Vasav’s eye for details, it’s so hard to believe that his school art teacher once thought he would be no good in arts. But after joining NIFT Bengaluru and connecting with his mentor Mr. Murli Chiruth he found out his hidden artist and currently explores his artistic virtues. Now, he illustrates people and objects against detailed backgrounds.

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Rendered with his minuscule dots or focusing on the innocent features of an old lady, Vasav captures a stunning likeness in his subjects (in their expressions and the inner world). His work is subtle and detailed as he tells simple stories through his art. It is breathtaking to behold the level of realism he achieves often difficult and time-consuming mechanism. He switches between human and iridescent stuff with utmost ease which turns out to be truly spectacular.

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RISHI RAJ

Fresh talent doesn’t come our way better than Rishi Raj. A freelance photographer who is a true appreciator of the visual art form. Currently studying in NIFT, Bangalore he divides his time between his photoshoots and college assignments. His classmates find him sitting in his corner doodling the day away with calligraphy and brush writing. He has come a long way from his first commercial gig at Akshaya Patra. His work stems from the most simplest of art and design principles and leave an astounding effect on the audience. While his photography portfolio scales various types, there is usually a human element in them. He uses human figures in his compositions in order to convey his story more easily as well provide a scale to his composition. This is only one such way in which Rishi uses the simplest of elements and adapts them creatively and technically.

His skill and level of knowledge in photography at the tender age of 22 is not only inspiring but extremely promising for the next age of photographers and creators.

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When Rishi Raj got the opportunity to show the world the true face of Bihar which is beyond the stereotypes and the Bodh Gaya Temple, he gladly accepted. Bihar is where Rishi grew up, it is in these streets that a 14 year old Rishi found his calling. This project takes us through the nooks and crannies of the true Bihar. It was done by a team of 4 Individuals and consisted of Videos and Pictures. Rishi was obviously behind the lens for these amazing shots.

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SADHNA PRASAD

Sadhna Prasad is a storyteller, illustrator and muralist based in Bangalore, India. Apart from her digital art, her recent work includes experimentation in Art Direction, Murals, Acrylics on Canvas, Textile and a continued love affair with popup colours, plants and coffee. Currently a freelancer, she wants to be anywhere where she can be creative and help change the world.

She’s the Art Director of the Aravani Art Project where she works with powerful individuals from the transgender community for inclusivity through wall art. In her own practise she works around stereotypes, women and explores traditional Indian art forms. Her quirky work is based on her style and use of colour combinations. A clear gift of balancing bright colours without overwhelming the eye is seen in her work. Her portfolio ranges from her fighting the society’s conservative views to big clients like Adobe, Barcleys and Google.

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Faces of the Future- Captain Anny Divya, The youngest woman ever to take on the role of commander of a Boeing 777 (at age 30) for Cosmolitans India’s 21st Anniversary Issue. Part of a set of Illustrations made for Cosmopolitan India featuring stories about the 21 women they feel are incredibly inspiring, and are truly forces to be reckoned with.

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INSIGHTS Premchand Banala A Storyteller who does Photography

that gloomy day and I was awestruck. I asked her mother if I could click a picture of her which is when I took this. This picture is almost a feeling, it was my motivation, a destiny, if I hadn’t woken up late I wouldn’t have encountered the young girl and little girl and that day I realised that some things happen for a reason.

What is your philosophy of life?

‘When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it’ -Paulo Coelho, from his book The Alchemist.

We have all grown up with a typical image of a photographer, financially broke with an eye for compositions. Premchand Banala is one such prime example, 24 year old portrait photographer and storyteller who captures street fashion and stories of strangers he meets during his solo trips. He is an inspiration and a popular topic of conversations amongst the students of NIFT, Bengaluru. This interview with Premchand Banala will inspire you to live your life your way and never give up on your dreams because if you want something and work hard for it, you eventually get there. He creates the amazing content from his bare minimum resources which is an achievement of its own. - Anoushka manohar When did your journey as a design dropout begin? It began in January 2016, which was a very

important turn in my life. This was the time when I was at my emotional peak, confused about college and the future. Taking school friends suggestion to go somewhere and take a break, I solo-tripped to Pondicherry, because it was the closest to Bengaluru. In Pondicherry I met Ankur Pandey, my batch mate back then who wasn’t close to me, he asked me what I was doing there alone and I poured my heart out to him. He suggested I leave college and do what I like, and so I did. We’re best friends now.

I decided to leave college to travel and do photography. I researched online about different photographers and found that a photographer Manoj Tyagi is the only one documenting street fashion in India, I wanted to feel this gap. A week after Pondicherry I went to Mysore and Bylakuppe, I haven’t stopped travelling and capturing stories since then.

I wanted to be an inspiration to the fashion students even though I am a design dropout.

Why do you do photography when you want to be a film-maker?

I’m a storyteller first then a photographer. Photography is storytelling of that particular moment, I can tell more than a moment in film-making. I capture street fashion and take portraits to understand costume design and find character inspiration for my future films. You see, it all connects and it fulfils my purpose. Now, I have managed to find myself a place in the movie industry. I’ve been in the movie industry for one and a half months doing small jobs. Now I am going to work in the costume department for a Telugu movie.

How do you plan your trips? I travel by the cheapest option and

take stops in between where I have friends. I plan the place based on my contacts, if I have a place in mind I want to go to, I look if I have any friends there who can help me or guide me about the place. Many times

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they offer me their home to stay. I stay in hostels if I’m staying for a few days and as a paying guest if it is for longer. When it comes to food, I have a small appetite and manage with the local cheap food.

What equipment do you use and how do you travel with your equipment ? When I travel I just have one bag which includes a camera, and one kit lens, that’s all I need. I believe to create more with the bare minimum. A Canon 1200D borrowed from a friend, the kit lens 18-55 mm and 55-250 mm which gives me the right amount of blur I need for my portraits. I have an 85 mm prime lens which I would like to use but haven’t been able to use because of compatibility issues.

How do you want your pictures to look like and how do you edit them? I feel the colours, the editing, and the framing of my pictures

forms my identity. Besides that, the simplicity, the emotion and the beauty of the person in the picture. Honestly, I use Snapseed to edit all my pictures. I have an old laptop which cannot handle photoshop and Lightroom, I use my laptop for storing the pictures. I want my pictures to look vintage so I desaturate them, add a little blue-green and tad bit of grain. Also, I never retouch my images because I want to communicate the emotion and the story of the person in the frame.

Which is your favourite photograph till date and why? It’s a

colourful picture of this little girl with the most neutral emotion. The reason behind this picture being my favourite is the experiences I had on that day. I overslept and was extremely behind schedule. I had a whole photo walk planned with a friend and now I was late. That day on the way to my friend’s place I saw this girl in her 20s on the street who was dressed who impeccably and was very pretty, I approached her and asked for her permission to click a photograph but instead of replying anything she scanned me with her eyes and walked away. I was extremely hurt by this incident and was feeling very low. Later that day, at the railway station I saw this little girl on the railway tracks walking towards me with her mother and another lady, I saw so much colour on

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BOOK REVIEWS Ogilvy on Advertising in the Digital Age

By Miles Young 288 pages, hardcover, $30 Published by Bloomsbury USA bloomsbury.com

Published in 1983, Ogilvy on Advertising is a seminal work by one of the industry’s forefathers. Although a legend of a copywriter he may be (his eyepatch ads for Hathaway shirts are often held up as genius), Ogilvy never had to sell brands on websites, social media feeds, apps, blogs and on. With Ogilvy on Advertising in The Digital Age, Miles Young, formerly worldwide chairman and chief executive officer of Ogilvy aims to be as comprehensive about best practices in the digital age as his mentor was for print and TV. It includes a timeline of the digital revolution, a Rish-like map of the digital territory, and six case studies that Young contends have defined the revolution, including from Cadbury, Dove, and Nike. He also profiles five giants of the digital adage, including R/GA chairman and chief executive officer Bob Greenberg and former McCann chief innovation officer Matias Palm-Jensen, who Young contends foresaw the on-demand economy during his early years in his native Sweden Yet, the instructive tone is also a call to action for creative people to read or reread the original Ogilvy on Advertising. Young argues that for all the changes, digital media is not unlike the arrival of the big disrupter of the 1950s, TV and that a lot of Ogilvy’s advice for creating ads that persuade and, ultimately, sell still stands up. “The cast has changed, the scenery is different, the bing is new, Young,” but the tragic and comic plots, subplots, and ounterplots of this business remain persistently and defiantly unchanged.” -Harshada Kamble

RECOMMENDED READING Designing Disability Symbols, Space, and Society

By Elizabeth Guffey

Access for the disabled has vastly improved since 1956 when activist Hugo Deffner was honored with the Handicapped American of the Year award but couldn’t ascend the stairs, open the door or get to the stage in his wheelchair. Designing Disability examines the movement for barrier-free architecture and explores the complex issues surrounding the wheelchair graphic known as the International Symbol of Access (ISA). Author Elizabeth Guffey includes the history and challenges of the disability rights movement, such as the early conflict between the European ask-for-help approach and the American self-help stance. By following how designers transformed the ISA from a passive to an active symbol, Guffey shows that the relationship between disability and design can recognize and empower the disabled and change the environment. 240 pages softcover, $26.95, Bloomsbury Academic. -Anoushka Manohar

Signs of Resistance

A Visual History of Protest in America

By Bonnie Siegler

The signs of resistance, as Bonnie Siegler, shows us in her precise selection of historical and recent images can be many things. They can be sashes worn by suffragettes or a staged die-in or an illustration of a president giving wind to a white hood. They can declare “I Am a Man” or “End Bad Breath”. They can be as iconic asRosie the Riveter and Uncle Sam or as anonymous as one pink pussy hat amongst thousands. Inspired by a popular 140-image conference presentation she gave in 2017, Siegler created Signs of Resistance to commemorate, to look forward and to resist. 240 pages -Twinkle Pahwa

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W.A. Dwiggins

A Life in Design

By Bruce Kennett 496 pages, hardcover, $95 Published by Letterform Archive shop.letterformarchive.org

The cover photo of William Addison Dwiggins with his shock of hair and mischievous smile suggests an artist whose wit and playful spirit characterized much of his life’s work Dwiggins was a prolific graphic designer, a puppeteer, and a writer of fiction, fantasy, and critiques on the graphic arts. Primarily known for his typography, including the typefaces Metro and Caledonia, he also designed Electra published in 1935 and digitally revived for this book by typographer Jim Parkinson. Dwiggins was a highly inventive and technical virtuoso who created graphics by day and constructed his studio, furniture, and tools in his spare time. In demand by publishers Random House and Knopf, his type of work and designs helped produce more than 300 titles. In addition, his illustrations employing pen-and-ink line work, stippling patterns, and stencils of bold shapes and colors remain visually striking today. During his last two decades, Dwiggins focused on typefaces, books and hand-carved marionettes for the theater group he co-founded to present his original plays. Written and designed by Bruce Kennett, this book includes more than 1,200 illustrations grouped by locations where

Muriel Cooper

By David Reinfurt and Robert Wiesenberger 240 pages, hardcover, $60 Published by The MIT Press mitpress.mit.edu

It’s difficult not to get immediately galvanized by Muriel Cooper, the legendary designer, and educator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In Muriel Cooper, authors David Reinfurt and Robert Wiesenberger showcase Cooper’s equally inspiring work and life within two in-depth essays on the designer’s print and digital works-complete with statements from the designer herself-and a heartfelt foreword by information architect Lisa Strausfeld that reflects on Cooper’s legacy and character. “Muriel had a liberating disregard for a number of protocols embedded in her time and place,” writes Strausfeld And it’s true-Cooper not only helped bring the design to digital arenas but also created her own academic station in a time when most women were discouraged from doing so. Reinfurt and Wiesenberger further list Cooper’s innovations through their essays. In “Hard Copy,” Wiesenberger explores how Cooper’s early life influenced her-notably her time working with the designer and artist György Kepes-and how her Visible Language Workshop at MIT reestablished the connection between the designer and process Soft Copy,” Reinfurt’s essay, demonstrates how Cooper

Dwiggins lived, studied and worked. A warm and witty portrait emerges, and the inclusion of comments Dwiggins noted on his numerous sketches provides a welcome insight into his creative process. Despite a chronic struggle with severe diabetes, Dwiggins was an innovator and one of the most influential designers of the early twentieth century. His prodigious output, as Steven Heller writes in the foreword, was “the work of three lifetimes.” - Anoushka Manohar

blazed a trail in real-time reproduction with computers and information design in the late ‘70s to early ‘80s; Reinfurt also details how the Visible Language Workshop evolved beyond print, paving the way for digital design. The book also presents a wealth of Cooper’s prints, computer graphics, and manifestos on the designer’s responsibility in the digital realm. As the authors declare in the introduction, “this book is intended, then, not as an archive but as a sourcebook for future production.” -Twinkle Pahwa

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INDEX TO ILLUSTRATION ANNUAL

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Ashish Anoushka Manohar Akanksha Kukreja Asavari Kumar Arpit Bhattacharya Ajay Chandran

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Fayzan Sabba

George Mathen

Hisam Puthalath Harshada Kamble

Karthik Raj KC Prashanth

Lavanya Sahral Lordsun Sivakumar

Navyata Gali Niharika Piparia Natasha Bahadure Nayan Shrimali

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Pavi Sankar Prem Kapoor Pavi Sankar Premchand Banala

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Ravi Kumar Ravi Kumar Rishi Raj

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Saurav Roy Shrishti Agarwal Shaivalini Kumar Sanjana Raveendran Shreyasi Pareek Sadhna Prasad

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Twinkle Pahwa Tosha Jagah

Vivek Ram Vasav Varun

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