When thoughts form, a lot of us put pen to paper. We try to reframe those unorganized thoughts, in an attempt to string out alphabets, words and sentences. And then, there are those, who put thoughts to paper, but the strokes instead of words, turn into more strokes: some lighter, some darker, some hurried, some elegantly placed. That’s how a sketch comes to life, the art of which is what we bring to you this issue. This month we dedicate to sketching, through pens, ink, pencils, charcoal or digital medium all coming together to create a picture, definitely worth a thousand words.
City musings
On a summer night, a bedroom's wall witnessed a streak of creativity. A black lead pencil started sketching a burning city; tall skyscrapers and curli…
No beating around the bush
Head leaned over a microscope, she would try to enjoy knowing about the sex life of virus' and bacteria. But her mind would soon wander out of her Hum…
Stories in the strokes
In a crowd of strangers, a particular person catches Prakash's interest. The man is pouring hot brewed tea in small glasses. As he wipes the sweat off…
Timepass
There is a famous Malayalam author called Gabriel Garcia Marquez who famously wrote about a Kerala village called Macondo. This is what a lot a of Mal…
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 reached the right address. We spot the steps leading d…
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 ceramic artist or a designer on the island to featur…
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 while, and it would take shape with contact with air a…
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; I too, spin. I spin As He with his magic caresse…
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 …