When you’re making a book, not everything you’d like to include makes the final cut 😿 I had to let many signs go during the development of India Street Lettering , and among them were advertisements for astrologers. Here’s my small paean to them on the archive blog 👉🏼
As @Blaft Publications and I inch ever closer to making the INDIA STREET LETTERING book a beautiful object everyone can hold in their hands and flip through, I’m so darn happy to see a sneak peek being featured in the one and only Creative Boom 💥 Go have a look at what’s coming on and if you haven’t already, please pre-order the book .
Sam asked me if I’d like to write for the @Sam at BLAG blog when we first met here, but I felt so uncertain about what I would even say about sign painting in India. It is only now, with the India Street Lettering book in the offing, that I buckled down and put pen to paper. The result is a short essay where I try to unpack how I, as a documentarian and type designer, have tried to deal with the clichés that come with how Indian sign painting is viewed.
INDIA STREET LETTERING is a 🤍 Community Pick 🤍 in the latest Kickstarter newsletter. A big thank you to Mahesh for supporting the project! 🙏 You can support it too https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/india-street-lettering-a-book/
I’ve got some fun photographs lined up for the cemetery zine, so I really hope that the campaign for INDIA STREET LETTERING reaches the $20,000 mark. @Blaft Publications will send a copy of the zine to everyone who has ordered the book! Let’s go 💙 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/india-street-lettering-a-book/
We’re in the last stretch, aren’t we? 10 days to go, and the campaign is about $1250 away from reaching our final stretch goal — a photo-zine featuring lettering from cemeteries in India for everyone who has pre-ordered the book! Help @Blaft Publications and I cross the finish line by boosting the campaign and sharing it with all the typophiles in your life 💙 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/india-street-lettering-a-book/ image
When @Blaft Publications launched the INDIA STREET LETTERING campaign, I wouldn’t have dreamed that it would be 300% funded with nearly a fortnight to go! You can still help us reach Stretch Goal #4 — a new zine featuring lettering from cemeteries in India 🪦👻 Everyone who has pre-ordered the book will get a copy! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/india-street-lettering-a-book/