WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING
1.
At work, I finished a long-overdue essay, and handed it off to my colleagues for their review and feedback, and next week it should be off for edits. I’m very glad to have completed this work before I take some vacation days.
The possibility of a new street lettering exhibition and talk for early next year are beginning to take shape, so I’m quite looking forward to that. I also took the first steps for making some changes on the India Street Lettering website. Cautiously and optimistically, I signed on the dotted line for a new project that could take up most of my next year.
Mid-week, I also gave a short talk for a group of design and type folks, which was a nice pick-me-up in the midst of a long and drudging few days. I met some new local people, whom I hope to keep in touch with.
2.
On Friday afternoon, Amber and I met Purneetha for a catch-up at our mid-way Blue Tokai — a couple of hours of rambling conversation over coffee and food. As we were heading back, our car refused to turn on. Turns out there is/was a problem with the battery charge, and its scheduled visit to the workshop for a service needs to happen even sooner.
I had a phone call with Ankush. We railed about bad clients, and thought up ways to feel creatively fulfilled while putting food on the table.
3.
Amber pushed me to go to Chandni Chowk to do lettering documentation, and we headed there early on Saturday morning. We spent a few hours there, caught breakfast at Fig at Malcha afterwards, and then walked around Connaught Place for a bit longer. I came back with a fair few photographs, though for complicated reasons, I wasn’t entirely happy with the results. That didn’t stop me from publishing some photos, though. I did get a small lead for new research, which I will follow up on after Diwali.
