“Ten years back, Chitrakatha, the International Student Animation Festival at the National Institute of Design was launched. This year for it’s 6th edition, we at Designdrift in collaboration with the organizers of the festival decided to covert the entire tabloid into a comic strip. We invited 28 different artists and illustrators to contribute a comic strip each, this issue is a result of this amazing collaboration.
Orijit Sen
Orijit Sen - thepeopletree@yahoo.in…
Rajiv Eipe
Rajiv Eipe - rajiveipe@gmail.com…
Amrita Barua
Amrita Barua - amrit.b@nid.edu…
Ramya Ramakrishnan
Ramya Ramakrishnan - ramya7688@gmail.com…
Arjun Gupte
Arjun Gupte - angupte@gmail.com…
Rajesh Thakare
Rajesh Thakare - rajeshgthakare@gmail.com…
Amritha R. Warrier
Amritha R. Warrier - amritha_w@nid.edu…
Delwyn Remedios
Delwyn Remedios - delwyn.remedios@gmail.com…
Priyankar Gupta
Priyankar Gupta - priyankar.gupta@gmail.com…
Sarbajit Sen
Sarbajit Sen - sarbajit.cartoonesque@gmail.com…
Shipra
Shipra - headandtales@gmail.com…
Sekhar Mukherjee
Sekhar Mukherjee - sekharm@nid.edu…
Gunjan Joshi
Gunjan Joshi - gunjan.joshi.1985@gmail.com…
Shanthala Setty
Shanthala Setty - shansetty@gmail.com…
Lavanya Naidu
Lavanya Naidu - lavanya.lmg@gmail.com…
Jemma Jose
Jemma Jose - jemmajose@gmail.com…
Shaaz Ahmed
Shaaz Ahmed - ahmedshazz@gmail.com…
Kalp Sanghvi
Kalp Sanghvi - kalpsanghvi@gmail.com…
Upamanyu Bhattacharya
Upamanyu Bhattacharya - upamanyu1994@gmail.com…
E Suresh
E Suresh - suresh@studioeeksaurus.com…
Prashant Miranda
Prashant Miranda - prash@whyso.com…
Cyrus Daruwala
Cyrus Daruwala - cyrusdaruwala@gmail.com…
Prasun Chakraborty
Prasun Chakraborty - prasunnid@gmail.com…
Shashank Acharya
Shashank Acharya - acharya.shashank@gmail.com…
Siddhartha Tripathi
Siddhartha Tripathi - siddhartha_t@nid.edu…
Vaibhav Kumaresh
Vaibhav Kumaresh - vaibhavkumaresh@hotmail.com…
Nikhil Chaudhary
Nikhil Chaudhary - nikhilchaudhary.aj@gmail.com…
Anuj Sharma on Fashion
Hear the word fashion and immediately many names pop up. But fashion is hardly a one person’s creation. It involves weavers, craftsmen, tailors, models, makeup artists, photographers and many others b…
View from the Runway
In a village about 12 hours away from Kathmandu, Nepal, lived a young boy. This was a village where there were no dreams, aspirations or looking for answers. But for him, questions were burdening his …
The Serendipity of photography
Many times, photography is a product of hard work, dedication and calculated movements. Other times, it is a moment of luck; a product when somehow the universe helps conspire a moment where the apert…
Sustainable fashion
An intrigued audience sat in the auditorium where the Pune Design Festival was in process. On the screen were excerpts of Karishma's life, which were revealing itself thread by thread, as she excitedl…
Between the two lenses
After a long day at the laboratory, she comes back home. Facts of molecular biology crowd her mind. And then, she takes off her white lab coat and her crocs, and with a click of a button enters her pa…
Crafted Indigo – The ‘Ajrakhpur’ Cosmo Of Block Printing
When our team at Designdrift was contemplating upon the idea of creating this year’s first issue with celebration of printing, I knew that at least for one piece there was no need for mu…
Vimpt – from new viewfinders to old prints
In a dark room in the United Kingdom, Craig Austin would be bent over, developing printed photographs. Outside the room, his smartphone would be blaring with Instagram posts—a monochrome sunflower, a …
Prin(t)cess Of Antiques, Old Letters and New Prints
You cannot help but be attracted to the space. First, the loud music blaring out of the studio door invites you in where you see a printing press dominating most of the space with its big wheel. Cans …
Printing, Sculpting and Everything in Between Jayesh Shukla
In 7th grade, aged 12, Jayesh Shukla had his first association with press by selling newspapers in Ahmedabad. His association was more than just a swift transferring of newspapers, he knew the …
GIVING WINGS TO DRIFTING THOUGHTS
The exhibition is called, “Please Have a Seat.” Here, one of the exhibits show a white background with a simplified sketch of a pair of arms stretching themselves. They could belong to a man, or a wom…
DRAWING HER OWN LINES
Frau Ireen-Christin von Zielonka-Wyczliński [Ireen Zielonka] I knocked on the door of studio No 2054 A at the Europian Creative Centre, Weißensee, Berlin for an appointment which has already been resc…
FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING
You might find him under a tree, catching a breath from his day’s travel. Being reserved by nature, you may not find many people around him. But he won’t be sitting idle-he would be experimenting with…
AS FREE AS THE WATERCOLOUR
One should just let the watercolours flow with the water, making their own way, swirling with other colours and defining their shape on paper. It enjoys a sense of freedom. Srinihal Poukas enjoys this…