This week I completed a year of writing week notes
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Week Notes — Matra Type
, a small attempt to go back to old-school blogging. I missed a few weeks, sure, but I am so happy to have stuck with the habit. Albeit silly, one of the biggest challenges I faced was having a photograph (or two) to accompany the text every week. It made me realise how rarely I use my phone camera. image
I’m going back to Colombo after years πŸ™ŒπŸ½ This time to participate in the Sri Lanka Design Festival https://www.srilankadesignfestival.lk/ to talk about all things typography with some wonderful colleagues. I’ll be speaking on two panels β€” one about nurturing design practices that build local typographic communities, and the other about letterforms and cultural and national identity. Thank you @npub1m30s...qxtl for inviting me 😌 If you happen to be in those parts next week, please come say hi πŸ‘‹πŸΌ
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This Sunday I’m doing an online talk for The Goa Project
The Goa Project Sessions
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. I’ll discuss where I look for visual inspiration when stretching the boundaries of letterforms in scripts from India. My talk is juxtaposed with one by Sundar Lakshmanan, who will chat about script encoding. Between the visual and the technical, we hope to open up the world of Indic script type design and its possibilities. The talks are free, just register here ➑️
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✨ Little successes on India Street Lettering this week ✨ I began adding signs from two new cities β€” Leh (https://indiastreetlettering.com/tag/leh/) and Hyderabad (https://indiastreetlettering.com/tag/hyderabad/), and in two new scripts β€” Tibetan (https://indiastreetlettering.com/tag/tibetan/) and Telugu (https://indiastreetlettering.com/tag/telugu/).
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Back when I was a toddler, my parents lived briefly in Hyderabad. This February, I returned to the city for the first time. No surprise that one of the lenses through which I saw it was typography. I was amazed at how many single-screen cinemas were still standing, even if some were no longer in use. My photographs from the trip have made their way to the zine β™₯️ Cinemas of Hyderabad β™₯️ Say hello to Priya, Shanti, Nataraj and Sheesh-Mahal, and get a copy of the zine ➑️
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India Street Lettering Zines β„–4–6 Bundle — Matra Type
Next time you need to express your heartfelt gratitude, send a postcard that says shukriya . With its energetic lettering and lively colors, it is...
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It has been a while since I prepared a newsletter issue, and gosh, am I rusty! Working on a new dispatch for next week, so if you’re not subscribed to πŸ‘€ I Spy with my Typographic Eye πŸ‘€ yet, now would be a good time to sign up ➑️
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Type design + typography + graphic design newsletter from India by Pooja Saxena aka Matra Type