Tag Archives: Colour

Amrita Bagchi

Posted on March 12, 2011 | 2 Comments

My girl Amrita’s work is now on the cover of Time Out magazine. A  detailed and fantastically bizarre illustration adorns the Mumbai edition this month, and the Delhi edition last.

And she’s not just an illustrator. Artist, graphic designer, experimental filmmaker, photographer. The girl paints murals, she sings, she cooks, she exhibits. Her current exhibition runs till 18th March at Studio 21, in Calcutta.

Her blogs showcase a thoughtful and vivid collection of commercial and personal work. Graphic design and illustration can be found here, and her photography here. The Mahishadal Palace slideshows are especially wonderful.

Hire her please, so she won’t have to go to an office and can play with me all day instead.

*Studio 21, 17L Dover Terrace, Kolkata

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Diya’s House

Posted on October 31, 2009 | 3 Comments

Diya Sarker is a beautiful girl and talented art director I just met. She lives in Bombay in a one bedroom studio, which Neville and I visited inebriated post midnight last Friday. I was in awe. Beautifully lit with fairy lights and Robot Chicken on her macbook, she has art and her own prints everywhere, a blue mural in her kitchen, lots of lovely possessions and a great selection of reading material. Two very cute street cats keep her company when they please.

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Diwholi

Posted on October 20, 2009 | 2 Comments

Today is technically the third day of Diwali and although it has ruined my body, what a three days it’s been. There has been much drunken revelry, good company, barbecues on high terraces, poker, neighbours bringing over homemade sweets, dressing up.

Pune smells like gunpowder though, which can’t be good. It’s really loud and polluted and I’ve seen too many horrid accidents. Last night, somebody in my street lit a tree on fire with their irresponsible rocket lighting and the fire brigade had to put it out. As the wise @ashwinpande said ‘I need to find a one-armed man to teach these fucking kids a lesson about not playing with firecrackers.’

So in a great big fuck you to firecrackers, Shaunit and I threw ourselves a Diw-holi party. We decided to make a rangoli, light tiny diyas and play holi which we both missed this year(and myself since the 90s) and we drank whisky and and ate chocolate cake and lemon tarts and stayed up till dawn.

Rangoli is actually more difficult to do than it looks. Add alcohol to the mix and it’s near impossible. But we did okay.

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Posted on October 12, 2009 | 6 Comments

The downside of being in India is the tardiness of its people. Nobody is ever on time. Indian Standard Time makes fashionably late look well meaning and well mannered. The upside of that I guess is the extra time you get to primp and even be creative, if like me, you’re as punctual as a German. While waiting to be picked up, I’ve thought up lots of little ideas. I’ve worn tiny little confetti stickers on the corners of my eyes. And drawn jewellery on with my M.A.C silverstroke fluidline eyeliner. I didn’t take pictures but last night I couldn’t find a proper nail polish shade to go with my outfit. So I stuck a bindi on each toe. The other week I painted my nails yellow to match my pants.

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My own space

Posted on October 10, 2009 | 2 Comments

Feeling particularly uninspired in my grandparent’s home. Not that I don’t love the proximity to them, but I miss my freedom (and sanity). I want to have my own place and my room without their ugly, ancient PC and even uglier and older cupboards in it. I want to hang baubles and blu-tack pictures and drink red wine in my underwear at 2 pm, things I became accustomed to having lived alone for a million years. I miss having a billion pretty editorials on my walls, coming and going as I please, entertaining people. I just want a space to call my own again, something like these would be nice.

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Mosquito nets are oddly romantic. I think this is Naomi Campbell’s room in her house in the Caribbean.

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South Indian film posters. Fuck yes! They are so kitsch. I like Katie’s comic book wallpaper also.

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Lovely egg-yolk lamp and magazine stack desk. I think the desk would be fairly easy to make if you punched a big hole in the center through the mags and inserted the actual legs. Maybe?

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Love this. The wall, the colours and the suede seat.

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This room looks expensive. But it needn’t be really. I like the contrast of the artwork against the starkness of the white.

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What a beautiful nook. I could sleep here.

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DIY: Dilapidated

Posted on October 3, 2009 | 7 Comments

Strolled down with Daniel to my family’s old printing press today, decrepit and desolate as it may be. But the building is wearing so beautifully, I decided to take a few pictures of the paint, walls and shutters chipping, rusting and fraying to make some virtual origami paper of sorts.

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What I Wore: Bombay

Posted on October 1, 2009 | 2 Comments

Bombay weather is only conducive to cotton and nudity. So for everybody’s sake, I picked cotton. Wearing one of my favourite travel finds – this pair of stripy dhoti pants from the ugly streets of Delhi, Vedant’s t-shirt after he threw me in his pool – now mine and a Toy Watch (Kanye would be proud). Eating a cupcake that cost twice as much as my pants. Hanging out in Eero Aarnio’s bubble chair over their pool.

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Ashish

Posted on July 17, 2009 | 1 Comment

I just discovered the work of designer Ashish Gupta and his label Ashish which I love. Being home makes me all googly-eyed about clothes inspite of the closest thing to fashion running in my family is that sometimes my granddad watches FTV on silent. Cutie! These are some of my favourites from various London Fashion Weeks where Ashish has showcased his collections carefully screenshotted by me.

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Hanako Narahira

Posted on May 24, 2009 | 3 Comments

I’m so cold right now. I cannot wait for my two week Tokyo summer. I normally hold winter in great contempt but these photos I found of Central Saint Martins graduate Hanako Narahira‘s work make me a bit more forgiving. This is her amazing Trace 2008 knit collection. The London based Japanese designer apparently drew inspiration from the graffiti on the Berlin Wall for it. I would happily hibernate for the entire season wearing any of it.

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Josh Goot

Posted on May 18, 2009 | Leave a comment

An open letter to Australian designer Josh Goot – Re: Autumn Winter 09

Dear Josh,

Thank you for making the genius collection on display in this blogpost. I would not mind any of it. Nope, not one bit. I bet you look great today. I like your shoes.

Love,
Sheena

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