It was my last day of research trip in India today. I met a type designer named Sarang Kulkarni. Founder of White Crow – a type foundry and design studio in Mumbai. During my meeting with him, he spoke at length about the hand painted type project that he did with Hanif Qureshi, and his [...]
On 20th , I was back to Mumbai. I spent the next few days at an editing studio, where I got a chance to meet and work with the awesome team of The Cutting Crew. After finishing off the research work, this is where the actual magic had to happen. The Cutting Crew team was [...]
When I got back to Mumbai after finishing the research in the northern parts of India, I met an old friend and an ex-colleague Prasanna Sankhé. Founder and creative head of Hyphen. I met him at a design shop called Filter owned by his company. I knew him from my advertising days when he used [...]
On 11th June, I got up quite early to visit a couple of museums and libraries in an attempt to find some scholarly writing about the automobile decoration of India. But that visit to the libraries wasn’t of much help. I was suggested to go to the National Archives, but that too was a disappointment. [...]
The next day before meeting Raja, we went to the Jodhpur bus stand and booked our tickets to Delhi in the evening bus. When we reached the workshop, Raja and his assistant had just started work on a new truck back. Raja Gharu specializes in painting sceneries on the truck backs. He doesn’t do the [...]
Next morning, before heading out we asked the hotel manager, Mr. Jagdish about some locations in Jodhpur where we could find truck painting workshops. Based on his suggestions, we took an auto rickshaw to Pratap Nagar. After inquiring around for a while we found Sattu Painter’s workshop but couldn’t find him in his workshop. But [...]
Met Ashraf and his son. The next morning we called Ashraf to find out about his schedule for the day. In a couple of hours we were headed towards the workshop where he was supposed to do the writing on a truck which had been painted a day before. For the next few hours we [...]
While we were still in the bus, we had called up Shree in Mumbai and asked her to find us a hotel in Udaipur. Fortunately Shree had a friend in Udaipur, Megha Parekh who helped us with the hotel booking. We left the hotel at 10:30 am and headed straight to the transport nagar of [...]
We left Ayan’s apartment on the morning of June 5th, thinking that we were headed towards Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh. Some people in Sirhind and later my dad had suggested that Saharanpur is quite famous for its woodwork and we could get some important material for the documentary in Saharanpur. After struggling for an hour [...]
Since we had nothing much to cover in Punjab, we decided to head back to Delhi the next day. After waiting for almost a couple of hours and hustling in a long queue we finally got our bus tickets for Delhi.