Mumbai 2050: An Origami Vision

By Pari Syal

Photography: courtesy Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum

The critical collaboration of Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum and BMW Guggenheim Lab in Mumbai has hypothecated the adage, ‘Inculcate it in the child’, by engaging young impressionable minds with urban issues through art and craft.

Wanted, a Confluence: Management & Design Thinking

By Udit Chaudhuri            

From steel production to food distribution, evolution in industry has noted a corresponding evolution of scientific management - analysis, planning, control, budgeting and staffing applied to a host of processes.  But where and when does strategic design thought step in?

Hardware, Software, Painware

By Udit Chaudhuri

It happens again and again. A smart product enters the market. Technology makes it smaller, cheaper, and multifunctional. The product bloats until you don’t know what to call it. And it dies, reborn in its oldest avatar. But does industry learn? 

The Baluchari Brouhaha

By SavithaHira

Photography: Courtesy Agnimitra Paul

Baluchari Kurti

Design is known to reinvent itself. Patterns, textures, colours, forms, the overall look and feel – whether fabric or interior, at some time or other goes through a revisit process, where contemporizing becomes imminent.  The latest in the offing are talks about reinventing the renowned Bengal signature of Baluchari.

Art & Spirituality – The Handwriting Connect

By Pari Syal

Photography: Courtesy Jyoti Naoki Eri

Calligraphy by Irshad Farooqi, Delhi, India

Based on the principle that the art of handwriting or Calligraphy is akin to spiritual practice in daily life, the exhibition Ek Sutra celebrates the coming together of calligraphic art forms from different cultural backgrounds, showcasing both, traditional and contemporary works.

Asymmetric brick arches, anyone?

IAnD Exclusive

By Savitha Hira

Illustrations: SRDA

Use of asymmetric arches and lopsided vaults in elevation.

IAnD and Mumbai-based Ar. Samira Rathod open to debate an exploration of design – the asymmetrical brick arch and its feasibility factors…

Concepts of Space in Traditional Indian Architecture

Text & Photography: Ar. Yatin Pandya

Attempting to understand the roots of ‘timelessness’ as a universal quality in architecture, Ar. Yatin Pandya excerpts the essence from his internationally acclaimed book of the same title, where he examines notions of time, space and existence in the Indian context; the research providing inroads to a universal footprint...

Indian Architecture Awards 2012

By Pari Syal

Photography: courtesy the architects

Felicitations seem the order of the day world over. Celebrating architecture, we bring you the annual architecture awards by Indian Institute of Architects – by the Architects, for the Architects…

Tradition vs. Technology

By Ar. Nikhil Juvekar

Ar. Nikhil Juvekar urges you – the fellow professional and the common man – to look closely beneath and through the layers that ensconce design thought and execution, and gear up for some effective action…

Time & Space

Ezine Special

Text & Illustrations: Ar. K. R. Jaisim

There have been a zillion sunrises and yet each one is as astounding as the one before and after. It is not the material content or the structural fantasies that make great spaces. It is something more…

E-Toilet

By Pari Syal

Photography: Courtesy Eram Scientific

E-Toilet christened “Delight” is India’s technological answer to public sanitation ensuring cleanliness, sustainability and efficient maintenance.

A New Revolution?

IAnD Exclusive

By Radhika

Photography: Courtesy Clark House Initiative & World Wide Web

Painting by A. A. Raiba

Artist's Resale Right being practiced in UK and France should also be introduced in India, urges an ongoing exhibition in Mumbai titled AA Raiba: Droit de Suite/Artist's Resale Rights

Facelift for India Inc.

By Rajesh Kulkarni

Photography: Courtesy Z Z Architects

“Spaces that inspire rather than soothe” is the operating mantra as corporate India gears up to compete on the global platform feels Ar. Krupa Zubin. 

Silent Spaces

 By Ar. Sinora Penkar

With a population of over a billion people and a country steeped in culture and tradition, India needs to build for her people clean, tranquil and private spaces where they can complete the last rites of their loved ones.  Ar. Sinora Penkar’s winning design for a funerary…

Origami with molecules?

By Udit Chaudhuri

Photograph courtesy:  Jongmin Shim, Katia Bertoldi and Pedro Reis

A building with collapsible walls and roofs, an arm with smooth, seamless joints like a green branch instead of mechanical pairs, a micro-sized drug delivery system digging into a specific gland or a ‘paste’ that forms into a defined shape may well become a reality quite soon!

Art in Interiors

By Lalit Hira

Just as water is incomplete without that one molecule of oxygen, interiors are incomplete without art. Exploring ‘Fine Art & Interior Décor’ – the human perspective...

Craftspeople of Mizoram

By Bela Shanghvi

Bela Shanghvi talks about her first-hand experience with craftsmen in Mizoram, India and enumerates the impact of an organised awareness program on socio-organic design...

Sea, Shivaji & Pride

By Shriram Khadilkar

After a three-four year follow up on all fronts, the Shivaji Maharaj giant statue project in the Arabian Sea stands abandoned.

Rebranding

By Savitha Hira

What are the core essentials of a successful rebranding campaign? Can a seamless integration of progressive consumer mind-sets and evolving business objectives sustain a brand?

'Hand-picked Rejects’ (2003- on going)

By Udit Chaudhuri

The installation that duplicates a boutique has sound overlay with bytes from vendors soliciting clothes, conversations between customers and vendors (bargaining, calling back, even insulting) and ambient sounds of traffic and local fm radios.

While it has been our endeavour at India Art n Design to bring you the many flavours of creativity celebrating the Indian ethos, this one is a challenge: to reach you the experience of a very unique installation, something that bridges visual art with a performance.  A performance with a strong message. Its impact needs to be felt at the site itself and our writing can hardly bring you the sizzle, never the sausage.