Deciding a Colour Scheme for Dustbins

These are a few colour explorations for the colour scheming of a dustbin which can be used in Public Spaces. The light colours have been depicted so that people don't have the want to dirty them.

 

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What a Relief!

The National Institute of Design organised a one day Relief Printing and Letterpress workshop today - 27 February 2015 in the PrintLab. It was conducted by Prof. Tarun Deep Girdher- a faculty of Graphic Design and also the head of Printing Lab and the Publications department.

Relief Printing is one of the oldest techniques of printing and letterpress is a method of relief printing. Techniques like Linocut and Rubber Stamping were explained. After this, we got around to make things and got our hands dirty. We hand composed a short phrase using the available lead type, took galley proofs and printed the compositions on the proofing press. Here is the process.

A wooden tray containing types and furniture. The standard height of types/blocks or any other letterpress printing material is 0.918inches and it is still being followed. Types are made of lead. Furniture are usually 'I' shaped spacing material used to make margins or to fill up the space left after the type has been arranged. 

Bicycle Diaries - Thol Lake, Gujarat

Cycling trip

Total Distance covered: 70 Kilometers

Starting Point: Paldi

Halfway stopping point: Thol Lake

Endpoint: Paldi

Time taken: 14 hours (6:30 am to 8:30 pm)

Sun Temple, Modhera, Gujarat

 

The journey began in a local bus.

Multisensory spatial experience - PHOTOS

Location: Paldi char rasta, Ahmedabad, India

Photos clicked at different timings to capture the human activities and their inter relatedness at the location.

A group of men chatting after a round of chai

The beauty and interconnectedness of things

As Ansel Adams, a famous photographer once said ,“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” 

More than the skill of photography, this blog focuses on the moment(s).

1. Crushed flavoured ice (also called chuski locally). This is awesomeness. It looks like pieces of broken glass, separate but yet together. It's edible though.

2. The Central Soil and Material Research Station clearly seems to be living up to it's name in this photograph.

Glowing Couds, Convocation 2013

 Glowing Clouds made by the Foundation (First Year) batch of 2013, suspended from the terrace for Convocation 2013, National Institute of Design.

 

Bringing daylight at night. They say 'Every cloud has a silver lining', but here,the silver lining fills the interiors of the cloud as well.

Chitrakatha 2013

Cows in different postures, moods and expressions made for Chitrakatha 2013 by Ceramics and Glass Design.