one day freelance assignments - 1

In the early days of the 21st century when I had just started my Bridging Gaps in India entity as an Itenerant Innovative Learnshop Innovator, I was slowly weaning myself away from mainstrean graphic design practice. But I was still taking on the occassional weekend based print design jobs like logos and book jackets.

One of those in between assignments that I took on in November 2006, in between workshop sessions for Shristi School of Design at Yelahanka, Bangalore was a series of Eglish grammar, Maths and General knowledge book jacket designs for a reasonably large and innovative educational publisher - Manoj Prakashan - lead by a young dynamic MD  - Ms.Pooja Sharma at the helm.
She had comissioned mer to design these which she rather promptly used.
What I've posted here are the semi-final versions of the same.
Had aeons of fun creating them...

Sharing with my Students

The primary reason for my web prescence is for me to connect with my many students from my present recent past and hoary past. This blog , a long pending idea, was to share my work primarily in the medium of print to start with.
Also sharing some vignettes from my student days at NID, how it was the many crazy things we did and our innumerable ways of passionate learning that keeps us in good stead to this day.

So to start posting some of my work I thought I'd start by posting some of the book jacket designs I had designed for a local NGO here into Indian Folkloric studies. - NFSC - National Folklore Support Centre. The local had already been designed by Deepa Kudva Kamath, a year senior from Visual Communication at NID.
I was called in as a consultant to design the layouts of their bi-monthly magazine, the  book jackets of their research journals etc. And I was in a mood to experiment, to innovate.
My first sheir bi-monthly newsletter - Folklife, but more on that later as I have to source the visuals for the same.
Onto my 2nd assignment with them.
To design the jacket design of a bi-annual Research Journal from NFSC that would be sent to the University Libraries of the world = The IFRJ - Indian Folklore Research Journal. I set out to design a classy typography based masthead, with folkish contrasting 3 colour palette for each issue. All cut colours or ink colours, no offsett screens, so cutting down production costs, so was the initial plan. Also as there were going to be two volumes a year at least I had suggested they use numerals on the spine and on the front of the jacket that could be taken from the many language scripts worldwide. I was of course going by the fact tht most Indian Languages had their own unique numerals too systems too.
And so it seems like as its working as issues 8, 9 and 10 of the IFRJ show that my design legacy continues at NFSC, even after I've long stopped designing for them.