HAPPY HAPPY WALA BIRTHDAY to dear Kapil Dev. Wishing you good health, joy, and peace. The picture and the book is from the times when Kapil pa ji made records and we recorded them for posterity. Cheers to many more eventful years in your life. “Kapil Dev: Triumph of the Spirit”, is a profusely illustrated biographical journey of an iconic sportsman. The book was designed and printed by ISHTIHAAR. Ishtihaar won many prestigious awards for the book. From right: Kapil Dev, Rajinder Arora, and Sunil Sachdev of Allied Press. @KapilDevIndia @TheKapilDev
How can ‘design’ help us think differently about death?
A series of interesting conversations among the international design community about “Death and design: the creative projects confronting society’s ultimate taboo.”
“The visual language of death has stagnated, and creatives have a vital role to play in how future generations face its complex subjects. Here, we chat to a design research practice dedicated to death, and delve into some of the topics covered at their recent conference, from symbols of death and branding the end of life, to ‘traumacore’.
Death: it’s a topic that often feels like no one really wants to talk about. Especially, that is, in the buttoned-up culture of avoiding difficult topics that the UK is so well known for. But whether we like it or not, death is something every single person will deal with in their lifetime, and one day encounter themselves.”
Death and Design? While the world deliberates the essential nature and icons of death, I wonder if the Indian design community has ever given it a thought.
Not really a city of gardens today, but it is said Delhi had dozens of large gardens since the Tughlaq-era or even before. Sheikh Abu Bekr bin Kallal of Damascus who briefly stayed in Delhi during the reign of Muhammad Tughlaq writes, ‘…the city of Delhi is full of gardens. Gardens extended on the three sides of Delhi in a straight line for twelve thousand paces. The western side bordered on a mountain.” The construction of gardens continued later under Sultans and the Mughals. Glad to have designed a visual treat, a large format book (The Garden of Pride) on the restoration of Bagh-e-Bahaar, a 13th century Tughlaq-era monument in Vasant Vihar. The restoration of the monument, the garden, and the rejuvenation of water bodies around it, was a local community effort.
Book Design Project: The Garden of Pride: Vasant Udyaan
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