Our thoughts can be a scary place to live in with their spontaneity, temporariness and the ability to just disappear into nothingness. To be able to put these thoughts, our creativity into a tangible form is then, a bliss. This is a special issue dedicated to what is a major contribution to this tangibility: printing. The issue itself has been constructed with acombination of printing methods—offset and screen printing and even typewriting to bring to you the realness of printing. We bring to you stories of technicalities and art of printing, block printing and photographic printings. These, unlike our thoughts, are here to stay.
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 th…
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 blari…
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 domi…
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 jus…
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 …
ON THE ROAD
Some decisions do not require explanations. Kunal’s, too, didn’t when he told us he would be leaving the office last December. Even though new people walk in, the important ones never truly walk out, …
LITERALLY, REINVENTING THE WHEEL
How many times do you see a car drive past the road, and wonder about the story of the people driving it? Who are the people in it, and where will this journey take them? But when Mukheshbhai sees the…
WALTZING WITH MR. RAFIQUN NABI
When you meet someone for the first time, you meet them with a clean slate. You do not realize what they are built upon, what experiences they have had and how significant the rest of the world finds …
ITCHY FEET!
A restlessness, sort of like butterflies in the tummy, the need to get something done was churning in him. This particular situation had bothered him too much, and the 6 year old finally put pen to pa…
CASTING A SPELL
Artists do not get bored. Thoughts consume them, scenes fascinate them, daydreaming takes over. Artists do not get bored, even when they have to move outside of their studio for a day with computers i…
THE DESIGN THINKER
Prof. M. P. Ranjan on how he has evolved the courses that deals with design methods, processes and thinking for almost four decades, beginning with offering the course at the National Institute of Des…
DC
Designdrift’s next issue was being discussed in office when the idea of doing a story on Dilip Chhabria was put on the table and all of us said why not? Kunal Pandya, who has been a big DC fan from hi…
JUST POING IT!
So I am strolling through the DMY, International Design Fair in Berlin. looking at the innovative products and the stand designs, apart from experiencing an array of fantastic designs on display I obs…