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Entering A World That Inspired Studio Ghibli Films

After falling in love with the films, a virtual tour of Japan is the ideal next step

Photo Essay: In Search of Sunlight in Mumbai

Amid the pandemic, a photographer examines the role of urban planning and architecture in our access to sunlight

Magazine of the Month: Wallpaper*

An issue devoted to the role of design in crisis

INTERVIEWS

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Aditya Bidikar

Set in Type

ESSAYS

The Art of Losing

Words by Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

Books and Reading

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7 Memoirs Through Poetry & Prose

Seven writers share their favourite memoirs of, and sometimes by, literary figures

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Oddly Enough N°5: Where Will Our Food Come From?

Presenting — the fifth edition of Oddly Enough, a series by Paper Planes

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Goods to Know: Wooden Speakers by Diwiks

Refurbished doors and windows from Rajasthani havelis make up the casing for these limited-edition speakers

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Ahmedabad’s rich design heritage is what sets it

Ahmedabad’s rich design heritage is what sets it apart — in the pols, you’ll see intricate havelis and chabutras at every other corner, and elsewhere, legendary architects like Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, and BV Doshi have left their impact. But Ahmedabad isn’t at all the only city with design to appreciate. Tell us your favourite design feature — could be an architecture style, signage, street lamps, anything really — in an Indian city. 👇🏽

Illustration by @namrata.kumar.art.

The Dharamshala International Film Festival is now

The Dharamshala International Film Festival is now underway (until November 4) and this time, it’s entirely online. A number of the films explore design — whether through animation, architecture or otherwise — and we picked a few of the ones we’re looking forward to. There’s an animated short on the pandemic and the divisions it has highlighted in Indian society, an experimental documentary exploring architecture and the idea of home, animated charcoal drawings of three Tibetan children in Arunachal Pradesh, and more — swipe to see. Find passes and the entire schedule via @diff.india.

“There isn’t much to a rolling pin,” writes

“There isn’t much to a rolling pin,” writes @roshnibajaj. “All it needs to be is an even, symmetrical, cylindrical tool of any size, with or without whittled ends, but with the heft and substance to suit the paste it’s being used to flatten, dough or not.” In a year of so many kitchen experiments — whether pies, pasta or parathas — you’ll want to read this ode to the indispensable and beloved rolling pin. Link in bio.

Illustration & gif by @dsouza_ee.

As a letterer, Aditya Bidikar (@adityabidikar) has

As a letterer, Aditya Bidikar (@adityabidikar) has worked on a number of comic books, including some for the iconic DC Comics. He also co-hosts a podcast ‘Letters & Lines’ on the inner workings of comics and has written and edited comics as well. For our Interviews section, he tells us about the move from writing comics to lettering them, how type design for comic books works differently and the books he revisits most often. Read on — link in bio.

Pictured here: Pages from ‘Grafity’s Wall’ and ‘Coffin Bound’, lettered by Aditya Bidikar.

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Neeti Banerji (@n.ee.t) takes us through her print

Neeti Banerji (@n.ee.t) takes us through her print collections. “My small but growing collection of zines, collected over various zine fests that happened around my university town. Providence has a large art community, not even counting all the art students from RISD. Zines were a way to discover new techniques — screenprinting, risograph — and a way to break out of the art school bubble to see what artists outside the campus were creating. My prize possession is a misprinted portfolio my friend Anna gave me. It’s stapled a little wonky but the art inside is gorgeous,” she writes. Then there are “single issue comics I’ve 100 per cent bought just for the covers — and also business cards!”
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