Blog
Recaps of recent events, deep dives into signs and sign making, and behind-the-scenes of everything that is brewing.
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The Curator of Signs — Interview in the IMSc newsletter
Read my interview in the IMSc newsletter about documenting street lettering and my favourite signs in Chennai.
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Indian Sign Painting — Essay in BLAG
In a new essay on Better Letter Magazine’s blog, I write about how looking past the clichés about street lettering in India has changed my ways of seeing and learning from sign painting.
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Happy International Zine Month!
July is International Zine Month, and I’m excited to share the new stores and events that my lettering zines can be found this summer. A request, also, to support the India Street Lettering book campaign so we can reach our next Stretch Goal — a new cemetery lettering zine.
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Lessons from Letters — Essay in Purée Mag
At the start of the year, I contributed an essay to Sukanya Deb’s culture and criticism magazine Purée Mag. I wrote about what I hope to learn from the efforts I make to document street lettering in India, and organising and re-organising what I gather.
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Announcing India Street Lettering, the book
The past five days have been an exhilarating ride — last week Blaft Publications launched the Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund my new book. And to our absolute surprise and delight, we blew past our target in less than 24 hours!
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In Pursuit of Typographic Cityscapes
A look back at a zine-making workshop that I facilitated for students of publication design at the National Institute of Fashion Technology (Bangalore), which was focused on documenting and sharing street lettering from the neighbourhood of Ulsoor.
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Letter by Letter: Short Film & Exhibition
2023 was an exciting year: I received a small grant from the Bangalore International Centre (BIC) as part of their B•LORE programme to make a short film about street lettering in Bangalore’s M.G. Road. The film was screened at their annual festival, where I also got the opportunity to mount an exhibition.
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India Street Lettering zines: Tiles
Announcing the first batch of India Street Lettering zines, featuring signs from Panjim, New Delhi, Noida and Hardiwar, which are bound by the common thread of using tiles as a material for signage.