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5 resplendent home interiors where colours run wild

Sep 29, 2024 | architecturaldigest.in | Meera Ganapathi |Hannah Starauschek |Ritupriya Basu |Alisha Lad

Colour is making a serious comeback, bringing with it the joy and whimsy that home interiors have lacked for some time now. Culled from the AD archives, here are 5 home interiors that are abundant in colour and exuberance. A 20-Something Artist Turned Her Mumbai Rental Into A Colourful CocoonLiving in rented apartments in your twenties in the city of eternal adjustment, Mumbai, is an agreement with compromise.
Exploring the rise, and evolution, of analogue design techniques

Jan 8, 2024 | itsnicethat.com | Ritupriya Basu

It’s Nice That’s 2023 Forward Thinking series is supported by AKQA, the globally renowned design and innovation company. AKQA is at the forefront of creative technologies, telling unforgettable narratives across service, experience and product design that capture the imagination. If one has been looking closely at the subtle undercurrents that perpetually sweep through the creative world, it must have been impossible not to notice the rise of analogue techniques in design.
Eeshaan Kashyap elevates everyday tablescapes with dramatic pottery

Aug 23, 2023 | architecturaldigest.in | Ritupriya Basu |divya Thakur |Rashmi Haralalka |Amin Jaffer

There’s a sense of drama about Eeshaan Kashyap’s upcoming show in Mumbai. The chef and restaurateur’s pursuit of beauty led him to “Tablescape by Eeshaan”, a tableware brand he launched last year that has come to be known for its handcrafted objects that elevate daily rituals. His years-long explorations of form and materials culminates in this show in a dramatic play of textures and techniques.
Graphic designer Manav Dhiman gives AD Design Show 2023 a new look

Aug 23, 2023 | architecturaldigest.in | Ritupriya Basu |divya Thakur |Rashmi Haralalka |Amin Jaffer

Manav Dhiman’s typefaces are so packed with personality, that you can almost imagine them to be people. Perhaps the reason they feel so familiar, and yet so fresh, is because Dhiman is constantly looking at the world around us for inspiration. The idea for a typeface could come from anywhere—“the LED boards on buses, or maybe some stencil type that I spotted on the side of an electric junction box,” says Dhiman.
This new pattern projection system brings sewing into the digital age

Aug 22, 2023 | fastcompany.com | Ritupriya Basu

Earlier this year, a joint venture between sewing crafts and fabrics giants Joann and Singer culminated in the unveiling of Ditto, a first-ever digital pattern projection system. Designed by Cleveland-based product innovation firm Nottingham Spirk, Ditto combines algorithmic intelligence and projection to ease one of the most notoriously frustrating parts of the designing process: working with paper patterns.
Collins’ clever ad campaign for Figma dispels the myth of the ‘lone genius’

Aug 22, 2023 | fastcompany.com | Ritupriya Basu

In Collins’s new ad campaign for Figma, a quick animation hurtles us back centuries: In it, we see a neolithic builder, architect, and landscaper collaborating to build Stonehenge. The three cursors, dragging and pulling the columns of stone, finish a part of the structure and wrap up the day’s work with a quick fist bump. Titled “Nothing Great is Made Alone,” the campaign draws on works from history that were created through intense collaboration.
Visual artist Bonseng Sangma's surreal take on 7 exquisite jewels

Aug 19, 2023 | architecturaldigest.in | Ritupriya Basu |Rashmi Haralalka |Amy Bradford

Arpana RayamajhiA love letter to her trip to French Polynesia, Rayamajhi’s latest collection, “She Sells Sea Shells” was handmade in her New York City home, while she was still swimming in her memories of the island. The Kathmandu-born jeweller and artist worked with shells that were handpicked by the local women of the islands.
The Test of Time: How are designers creating long-lasting, impactful work?

May 2, 2023 | itsnicethat.com | Ritupriya Basu

However, as the world moves faster than ever before, the industry’s growing dependence on data-proof trends and a ‘sellable look’ often throws a spanner in the works in the path of experimentation. With the foundation of the design work increasingly being led by marketing strategies with a finger on the pulse of what sells the best, designers are often left to mirror pastiches of creative work they’ve already seen before.