Signature is a book collection of patterns by Gond artists. The publisher notes, “Gond artists hail from Central India and work with an older tradition of drawing on walls and floors. Yet these artists mark their work as their own with carefully chosen patterns… each artist has invented his or her own distinct design, with particular meanings. This is their mark or ‘signature.’”
There are plenty of other examples of traditional Indian design on the same site, for examples old book covers here and here and folk art here and here.
Website of Wieden & Kennedy creative Hanif Kureshi, based in Delhi. There’s a great range of work from typography to illustration and some interesting student projects. His site dedicated to Indian hand-painted type is well worth a look too. He aims to create digital versions of traditional hand-painted typography. This article explains more.
For the India special edition of Wallpaper magazine, Geetika Alok and Henrik Kubel were commissioned to design a custom typeface. The slideshow explains it’s origins in traditional Kolam designs. Further information here. Geetika’s site is worth having a look at for the Indian-focused projects she did whilst a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Art in London.
Alex Cornell completed this project as a student and has documented it superbly on his sites. Firstly, there is a good overview here, then a more detailed description of the design process here. Lastly he explains how he put together the book which was his final submission piece.
An interesting experiment in what happens when you de-clutter the packaging of famous brands. The result is usually much nicer and just as distinctive as the existing version.
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