In the world of risk takers, there is an unsung category—ceramic artists/designers. They bring together shapeless mud, which with their caressing and shaping, they put life to. And when they put it into the kiln, the guarantee of the product that comes out is only limited, but it is this unexpectedness and element of surprise that keeps the artists going. This issue we bring to you the journeys of four such artists, whose ceramic art finds inspiration from the movements of life underwater, colors of the ocean and music. While their products may be easy to shatter, their passion is most definitely not.
Magic from the forest
It's late evening and our car is navigating through the winding roads on the hill, it's in the middle of a forest and we wonder if we have reac…
Earth, water and the blues
Amongst the whites and blues of the ocean and the architecture around me in Santorini Island in Greece, I was feeling quite blue. I had not found a ce…
SHAYONTI SALVI – HEAD IN THE CLOUDS, AND HANDS ON THE EARTH
As she added water to it, the clay nestled and moved swiftly in and out of her palms. Now, she would sculpt the concept playing in her mind for a whil…
IN A SPIN – A POTTERS TALE!
IN A SPIN - A Potters Tale! a poem dedicated to Babu Sanchaniya. As the earth spins, Creating day and night in our world And letting life grow…
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…
PIYUSH MISHRA
The bus they were travelling in honked for the fifth time in last 30 seconds; but to the two youngsters it didn’t bother so much. Mostly, because they were face to face with an LCD screen on the bus p…
THAT GIRL IN HER OWN BOOTS
The journey is always better than the destination. For someone who covered a 4000 kilometre biking trip with her father to the North East earlier this year, Kalki Koechlin would agree: stopping the En…
CREATING FANTASTICAL REALITIES
When I look back at the first year at the design institute, it plays like celluloid in my head- a new place with new faces and a beginning of many stories. We were around 30 of us in a batch and like …
LET MY WORK & PAINTED WALLS DO THE TALKING
An innovative storyteller, Shaaz is an explorer in methods, mediums and ways of visual narratives. He has studied Animation Film design from National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad India and is …
FOR THE NATRANI WITHIN US
Have a look into Mallika Sarabhai’s world: the academy Darpana, and café and amphitheater Natrani, whose design space has incorporated the respect for performing arts, sustainability and created a pla…
WHERE GOOD DESIGN BLOSSOMS
How many of us can see aesthetic beauty in in a blade of grass and some fallen cherries floating in a puddle of last night's rain? Sandeep Sangaru definitely can. And he shares these photos on the soc…
BEHIND THE BOUGAINVILLEA
“Since I had spent almost 20 years in Delhi and was now planning to move to Morvi, I assumed I would have no friends, no social life and no evenings spent meaningfully.” Hemen explains. “I needed to h…
THE LIBRARY OF HIGH WATER
Siddharth stumbled upon a truly whimsical bookstore on his visit to Venice, a space that brings order and chaos together. Take a walk in this eccentric bookstore where bathtubs and gandolas make for g…