Kyoorius Magazine - March - April 2014

In this issue

The 19th issue of Kyoorius Magazine is out and here is glimpse of what’s inside:

In this issue, we have explored the association between a city and a creative individual through an interesting project, Creative Cities, in which curators from ten cities in the APAC region identify works by various creative individuals based on how they interpret the city they inhabit.

In both our Dialogue section with Rajiv Rao, national creative director, Ogilvy & Mather India and ‘My Life in Design’ with tsk Design’s Tania Singh Khosla, we have specifically asked them about the influence of cities in their creative process, among other things.

In our Special Report for this issue, we have extensively covered the awe-inspiring and absolutely brilliant street art festival- St. ART- organized in the city of Delhi by Hanif Kureshi. Kureshi, of course, has already been doing some incredible work in this space with his HandpaintedType project. We have also gone in-depth in the report to analyze the contemporary street art “culture” in the various cities of India.

We have tried to decode the book cover design space in India by talking to various inhouse designers, publishers and authors. We got some great insights from Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, HarperCollins India, Hachette India, Penguin India and independent publishing houses Yoda Press and Navayana.

For the ‘Origins’ section, we spoke to the student of the first ever batch of National Institute of Design (NID), Vikas Satwalekar, who has not only served extensively as a design educator but has also been behind creating some of the most iconic and original identities in India including Doordarshan, Hindustan Lever (now Hindustan Unilever) and Mother Dairy.

In ‘The Designer’, we learnt about the fascinating process of kite making from kite designer Ahmed Kazi.

For Output, we have a study from W+K Delhi called ‘Blind Spot’ which classifies the aesthetics of middle class into seven interesting categories.

And W+K’s Sunaina Sainath has written a terrific piece for us ‘Politics by Design’ in which she has envisaged the three major political parties of the country, Aam Aadmi Party, Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janta Party, as living rooms to define their visual imagery and what it stands for.

In this issue, we have also got glimpses into the work desks of a few creative people from all across in our ‘My Work Desk’ feature. In his new column, Wally Olins talks about how India wins hands down when it comes to how he likes to eat. And we also have wonderful Michael Wolff who has once again written a deeply personal and insightful letter for each one of our readers.