I’m back from what I pray and hope is the last trip of 2023. A fantastic few days in Calcutta that were booked months ago before we knew how hectic the end of the year would get.
WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING
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I finished the last of my work, meetings and emails before the holidays — some boring, others exciting. But that’s all for the new year now.
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One last newsletter issue will be coming your way before I shut shop for 2023, and I spent some time putting the final touches on that. I’ll send it this week, so if you’re interested and not signed up, today is a good day to subscribe.
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I started preparing for a workshop I’ll be facilitating at UXNow in Delhi in January. It has been a long time since I’ve done anything like it but I am looking forward to playing around with pixel type. It is always so much fun to introduce new folks to how letterforms are designed, and I hope this will be no different.
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While in Calcutta, I spent lots of time photographing street lettering. I had some concrete plans to capture some signs for upcoming zines, but there was also ambling around and discovering what the city has to offer. The latter was helped by an afternoon with Ankush, Karthik and Arindam of Friday Kollective, who offered to show me and Amber around. We walked for as long as our legs would carry us and ended the evening with delicious mishti.
Expect an avalanche of new posts on India Street Lettering in the coming weeks as I sit down to organise, edit and publish all the photographs I clicked in Panjim, Mapusa and Calcutta in the last month.