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 curling flames with smoke arising. The artist to this w…
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 Human Sciences laboratory to what students at the nei…
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 his brow, and calls out “Chaar Chai!”—four cups o…
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 Malayalis believed when they read One Hundred years o…
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 …