Since 2017, Pooja has been conducting guided typographic tours that reacquaint participants with their neighbourhoods from the vantage point of signage and letterforms. These walks are an excellent way for designers and non-designers alike to learn about how typography and lettering in public spaces shape our experience of them, and how they are, themselves, a product of social, cultural, even legal developments.
To learn more about what goes into preparing these walks, and the motivations behind them, check out this talk from TypeWknd 2020.
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Paharganj Typography and Signage walk
This walk was put together as part of the Delhi Walk Festival, a celebration of the city’s culture and quirks through a series of specialized walks, to help city locals see this historic neighbourhood not just as busy market full of tourists, but as a place with a distinct typographic personality that can re-acquaint them with the city’s history and culture.