Posts by samia
Animation in the making
an’t say what it is about old school frame by frame 2d animation. These days all I need is some empty time, a glass table, a clip-on lamp, tons of A4 sheets, a fine nib and ink. I remember enjoying this throughly in college and now here we go! As things are progressing now…
Read MoreThe Intercontinental Rollercoaster Club
The Indian Connection {IRCC} from Alberto & Yago Videography on Vimeo. Hey all! A&Y made this incredible video in the Uttarayan Art Foundation in Baroda where we spent close to a month in an artist residency in October 2014. Enjoy!
Read MoreMy cover design in 50 Amazing Covers you will want to pick up!
My book cover for The Twisted Twenties featured in 50 Amazing Covers you will want to pick up on Canva along with some incredible work – some of which I have linked below. Book covers are an incredibly rich and inspiring area to play with in print design – I am working on more and…
Read MoreIndia Design ID
Really happy to have attended the India Design ID in Delhi last week. Though every collection/company doesn’t wow you – there is plenty of good work there. Here are a few glimpses of things I loved.
Read MoreDisco Partay
Fact one: For all the fun times had dancing all night in our last 5 years, there are no places or no places with GOOD dance music in this expected to be great city of New Delhi. You know the kind of music you’ll have to change your plans for. Like you had a plan,…
Read MoreLeaving Home with Half a Fridge
y first assignment of this year was a book by Arathi Menon. I just got to see it fresh from the press! Written with good humour and insight, this book speaks about a woman’s journey through the end of a marriage and her route to getting back to being the person she was. I had…
Read MorePackaging and the world it unfurls
Here’s my friend Jeebs, short for Ajibo (not really that short). Ajibo was the inspiration for The Animal People. I wanted to make a tiny sculpture of her to sit in the house someplace on the dining table or on the work table. It has become a larger project now but dear Jeebs is it’s…
Read MoreNew animals and old
o many kinds of days have passed. The new year/holiday season does something strange. You are shedding an old skin and yet it is essential that you remember what it looked like. Age old lessons of routine, productivity and good humour will be put to use again. Every year somehow you are getting more aligned…
Read MoreUpdate from year's end
reetings from a sunny December winter’s day at home! After a long crazy residency, a great successful show and a zipping trip to Nagaland’s Hornbill festival, here we are at the end of this year. New love for me this year is murals and ceramics. Also new on the cards is our artists’ collective Intercontinental…
Read MoreIts ready!
can’t explain enough what a great feeling it is to have finished a big piece of work. A part of me lies all the way in Carballo, A Coruña, Spain. I have hope that I will see it again sooner than later. A lot has been learnt painting in this ENORMOUS scale. It’s addictive too!…
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