Art
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Dipping Into The Creative Cauldron
The multi-faceted Digvijay Singh refuses to be pigeonholed as a fashion designer, preferring instead to ‘live on the edge of uncertainty’!
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Stretching The Imagination
Childhood friends Nirali Mehta and Jeenie Madan got together to start an eco-friendly activewear line that helps fashion meet fitness.
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Building With Bamboo
His engineering background helps Manu Narendran better understand how to work with bamboo as a construction material
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Pretty In Pastels
Shivangi Lahoty’s Inaaya brand is synonymous with pastel colors, each creation a fairytale in the making
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Telling Stories His Way
Vaibhav Kumaresh has transformed a childhood fascination for cartoons into a fulfilling career making animation films
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Connecting Yesterday With Tomorrow
Through ‘we are KAL’ Catherine Allié is ensuring that traditional weaving practices have a place in the future
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A Legend Lives on
POOL connects with Mira Nakashima, who has nurtured her famous father’s legacy with love and dedication.
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Animal Prints
Rohan Sharad Dahotre’s illustrations are inspired by his wish to give something back to nature.
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More Than Child's Play
The search for eco-friendly and non-toxic toys for her own children resulted in Meeta Sharma Gupta’s transformation from computer scientist to toy designer.
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Floor Art
Interior architect Ishrat Sahgal is using sari silk to raise the status of the carpet from afterthought to centerpiece of a room!
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Play Of Light
Installation artist and designer Vibhor Sogani illuminates spaces with his striking creations.
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Beyond The Lines
Anand Radhakrishnan has a knack for storytelling that comes to life through his illustrations.
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Auto Focus
Whether it’s automobiles or animals in the frame, the eye behind Gaurav Thombre’s camera is trained to capture the most stunning images.
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Top Honors
Balkrishna Doshi receives the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the first ever Indian to be honored with architecture’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
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The Luxury Of Handwoven
As a designer working in the craft sector, Margaret Zinyu is helping to resurrect the traditional art of loin loom weaving in her home state of Nagaland.
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Hearing Their Call
As CEO of Sohum Innovation Lab, Nitin Sisodia drives his team towards innovation that meets unmet clinical needs in resource-constrained countries like India
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Beyond The Brass Tracks
Through Studio Metallurgy, Advaeita Mathur offers intriguing designs created out of everyday objects
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Bringing Crafts To The Consumer
Through her Bangalore-based Studio Moya, Rashmi Singh is working on bringing relevance to traditional crafts even while helping to empower the craftspeople
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Fun With Fashion
While Teresa Liasom and Utsav Pradhan are complete opposites in terms of personality, when it comes to their quirkily named label, munkee.see.munkee.doo, they seem to have settled on a happy compromise.
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The Art Of Continuity
Brinda Somaya heads a multi-award winning, multi-disciplinary architecture and design practice in Mumbai. In the four decades since Somaya & Kalappa Consultants (SNK) was first set up in a garden shed, it has built up a hugely diverse portfolio and a formidable client list. As an Architect and Urban Conservationist of much experience, she has very definite views on the role of architecture in India, some of which she shares with POOL.
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Not Just Playing Safe
Aditi Agrawal and Anjali Menon go beyond conventional swings and slides to create customized playgrounds that are fun, safe, and developmentally appropriate.
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The Art Of Letter Writing
Creating a blissful experience for her audience is what moves calligraphy artist Pooja Bhagwat to put ink to paper.
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Mood Lighting
Rema Chaudhary uses an interesting play of light and shade to draw the viewer in.
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Collaboration Is The Key
China collaborates with India at the World Industrial Design Conference recently held in China, to come together to benefit from collective experience of Global Design Leaders.
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Little Somethings From Nothing
Rishita Chingangbam of P-Thadoi gives new life to discarded scrap through her attractive and eminently wearable jewelry.
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The Lure Of Letters
Rukminee Guha Thakurta has made an indelible mark for herself in the world of publication design
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The 'And' Factor
Dr. Naushad Forbes makes a strong case for giving greater priority to design in Indian industry. Excerpts from his inaugural talk at the recently held CII-NID India Design Summit in Hyderabad.
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Urging Re Imagination
Challenging and upsetting the status quo is what drives Jinan K.B. in his roles as educator and design researcher, and in his work with rural artisan communities
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Winning Post
Hari Nallan, Co-Founder & CEO, ThinkDesign, was a Jury at the iF Design Awards 2018. He shares with POOL what it meant to be part of the judging process in Hamburg recently…
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Less Is More
While Shweta Kapur’s designs tend to lean towards minimalism, a lot of attention is paid to tiny details
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