They didn’t make it into the India Street Lettering book, but signs for astrology shops from Bangalore are nothing short of special. The post Sun signs, moon signs, street signs appeared first on India Street Lettering .
I photographed a ghost sign in Budhwar Peth, Pune, and with the help of folks on Mastodon, I uncovered the story of what the painted letters set out to advertise back in the day. The post Pune Ghost Sign: Leisha & Gluco appeared first on India Street Lettering .
Read my interview in the IMSc newsletter about documenting street lettering and my favourite signs in Chennai. The post The Curator of Signs — Interview in the IMSc newsletter appeared first on India Street Lettering .
In a new essay on Better Letter Magazine’s blog, I write about how looking past the clichés about street lettering in India has changed my ways of seeing and learning from sign painting. The post Indian Sign Painting — Essay in BLAG appeared first on India Street Lettering .
A look back at a zine-making workshop that I facilitated for students of publication design at the National Institute of Fashion Technology (Bangalore), which was focused on documenting and sharing street lettering from the neighbourhood of Ulsoor. The post In Pursuit of Typographic Cityscapes appeared first on India Street Lettering .
2023 was an exciting year: I received a small grant from the Bangalore International Centre (BIC) as part of their B•LORE programme to make a short film about street lettering in Bangalore’s M.G. Road. The film was screened at their annual festival, where I also got the opportunity to mount an exhibition. The post Letter by Letter: Short Film & Exhibition appeared first on India Street Lettering .
Announcing the first batch of India Street Lettering zines, featuring signs from Panjim, New Delhi, Noida and Hardiwar, which are bound by the common thread of using tiles as a material for signage. The post India Street Lettering zines: Tiles appeared first on India Street Lettering .