Meena Kadri & hindi typography @ UNBOX
Friday, March 18, 2011If I hadn't tweeted a few days back about some random typographic goodness floating on the web, I'd have never caught Meena kadri & the typographic brilliance she has been upto on her blog Random specific. At the recent UNBOX festival, what was designed to be a 3 day workshop got crunched into a 3 hour exercise in fun & exploration with starting results. Bindi's, mirrors, gota's, matchboxes and other very local decorative elements fused to form local words in an interestingly contemporary-fun methodology. And after having used all those fat words in one sentance- all I'll say is how I would have given and arm or a leg to have been a part of the fun the participants clearly had. I have not seen so much colour and honesty and simplicity in work for a long time- all the while managing to be interesting.
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Isn't this image powerful in its beauty and strangely moving in some way?
To see the entire set on Flickr, click here & here to read Kadri's engaging design blog random specific.
All images taken by Meena Kadri using Hipstamatic 175. Nice na? :)
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