Comic on Mumbai's River Mithi

The comic illustrates the state of the river Mithi in Mumbai. Besides the known fact that the river is very polluted, encroachment has been a major reason for its deterioration. I wish to highlight two things: one, the developement projects that have been sabotaging the river and two, the ignorance and indifference of an average Mumbaikar.

gujju lettering

This is one of my entries for the typo day 2012 poster competition. We were required to do a poster using a word in our mother tongue. Harakhpadudi is a Gujarati term referring to someone who is overly excited.  I have handlettered this word and then digitally coloured it. Through its informal form and fresh colors,  I have tried to depict overjoyousness and a rush of excitement.

Michchhami Dukkadam is a Prakrit phrase. Michchhami (Mithya) means to be fruitless (forgiven) and Dukkadam (Dushkrut) means bad deeds. So the concept of wishing someone ‘Michhami Dukkadam’ is that we ask for forgiveness from inner of our hearts for whatever misdeeds or mis-behaviour whether knowingly or unknowingly occured by us to you through mind, thoughts, actions or speech during the past year. Though it is a festive greeting, it has a more serious and respectful tone, unlike greetings like ‘Saal Mubaraak. Hence I tried to retain a formal look inspite of its stylized form and used simple colors.

Purana Maal :P

aalsi aurat ke paas kuch naya kaam nahi tha dikhane ko, par blog update maarneko mann kiya, isliye purana maal nikala....for those who are seeing it for the first time...these are excerpts from my final year college project at JJ...a book puram pura dedicated to apna mumbaiyya language.

Lunch Invite

An aunt had asked me to design an invite for a lunch party  to celebrate the occasion of her son's wedding for his office colleagues. I kept procrastinating and the event passed. Months later I found a half finished graphic that I felt like finishing. so now, if any of you is getting married soon, I have a design option ready:P

Lying in the grass....

Done as a part of  a class assignment, this image expresses something I enjoy doing a lot- lying down in the grass under a tree with a book or simply stare at the sky above, loosing all sense of time.The beautiful lawns at the Nid campus lets me do this everyday. I will never get such a space once I get back to Bombay, so its my favourite spot at Nid. But what I had in mind while I worked on this was the time I spent under the Khirni tree at the Sanchi Stupa that I visited this May.