“Mahathanda – cooling oil”

Mahathanda cooling oil campaign by Siddhi Yadav, an awesome project where the Madhubani illustration style has been used prominently. I Like the way they have given it a grungy background and warm indian feel to it. Really proud of our Indian products which stands out and makes it such a big difference. Love the human figures style. The campaign was recognized with three Silvers at the Asia Pacific Advertising Festival 2009(Adfest 2009) in Pattaya, Thailand for Print Craft – Best use of Illustration category. Truly worth every bit.

Gods Of India

Love the series of Indian gods and goddesses illustration by Pedro Melo's. The Brazilian artist has created lovely illustration that truly is inspiring and has a very Indian feel to it. What is more interesting is the usage if colors which is so Desi. The quirky figures make the gods look different and very attractive. This sets a very good contrast from Sanjay Patel's Ghee Happy and Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues Indian gods illustration.

MAAD - Hand Made Goodness

Maad, the market for artists and designers had their first bazzar of the year in Red Dot Design museum singapore. The only thing that I was keen about doing this sat was going there and was totally happy after I did. The place was all set with pure hand made lovelies and the local artists had gathered to make the place very colorful. Met and spoke to a few craftsmen who had created absolutely stunning jewelry, hand sewn bags, pouches, key holders, hand made books, coasters, buttons and lots & lots more......

The place was so warm and what made it interesting was the "Portrait Day" which was happening there, made me feel nostalgic. Reminded me of my college classes where a person poses and we had to sketch the model ....

"Kariton" a earth friendly store had a very good range of recycled products. The lovely hand matted coasters, mats, hand made books with illustration on them, book marks, photo frames and lot more. The artist was friendly enough to let me take a photo at his stall ........

Beautiful Indian Designs by Patricia Fernandes

Here are some elegant Porcelain fashion accessories handcrafted by Patricia Fernandes who is based in Australia. All these are created by layering 100 year old traditional Indian Patterns and designs on crisp white porcelain which is a lengthy process . She creates a stunning range of broaches, ear rings, scarf holders, pendents, buttons. All of these look absolutely great and will surely go with any outfit.

Air India Vintage Timetable Design

Happy new year :)...... Here is a splash of awesome vintage timetable designs of Air India (1950 - 1970). These timetables are from the collection of Germain Mentgen collected by

Björn Larsson. For more details visit their website here

. loved them totally. Typical Indian designs which are so rich and nice to collect them. I wish they still had the similar stuff even today. I am very proud of our county's diversity.

Made with love

Made With love - make your own scrapbook for your loved ones. Its been a while since I saw a scrap goodness store of this sort. It just bought a broad smile on my face. The place is so warm to sit and do a piece of art with so much color and inspiration around you. With thousands of patterned papers, tools, embellishments the place is so apt for scrapbook enthusiasts. The scrap labs and a number of workshops made it perfect. This makes me want to do my own scrap book, I guess I will go ahead and do one about my recent travels. :)

I light

I light walk was a spectacular event which created a dynamic visual night environment where a number of local and international artists showcased their light installations. The city nightscape around singapore river was filled with light artworks. One key highlight of the Light Walk was an installation consisting of 29 large and beautiful light artworks of the Public Garden. The works were site specific which addressed the theme of people, time and place. It created distinctive skyline and the attractive public places were truly one of a kind.

The crouching digital origami tigers combined an ancient lantern making technique with cutting edge digital design and fabrication technology, bringing east and west together through tradition and innovation.

Animal Tree, a Lamp pole was done with the intention that can be installed in any public place. It provides shade during the day and emits light at the night. It is made of 512 pieces of orange happy bears.

The installation explores the meaning of touch in life and art. The sentence, "Touch. Do Not Please The Work of Art" is applied on the long wall using phosphorescent paint. In the day, only the title of the work as a protrusion on the wall is visible and touchable. At night, stroboscope spotlights highlight the passage for an instant every 30 seconds. The words light up and passers-by, when touching, looking or just passing the artwork, will cast their silhouettes and shadows onto the installation, leaving behind an instant personal graffiti.

Hammerhaus was a live performance, with artists Theinert and Hanfreich on 'visual piano' and sampler sequencer to interpret soundscapes into light art projections, generating abstract sound and visual experiences for the audience. Was an amazing show of 20 mins loved it totally.

Positive Attracts explores the belief that the optimism of our mental state of mind (4th Dimension) can effect a positive outcome of our physical state (3rd Dimension). The installation consists of the Artist's 9 favourite optimistic visionaries (Heroes) who have used their mental state to effect positive outcomes in their physical world. Inspired by songs such as "Rainbow Connection" and "Somewhere over the Rainbow", these Heroes incubate dreams and will "deposit positivity" to the public as they draw near to the Heroes. Famous quotes written at base of each Heroes will enable the public to guess who they are.

Fire flies installation was created from colourful PET-bottles and blinking diodes but yet retain the magical and whimsical qualities of fireflies.

Flora Magica spins a narrative between our technoid, cosmopolitan world and the complex, delicate natural environment of a hidden interior world. The façade of the Maybank building is transformed into a blossoming moon garden.

Imagine the jellyfish deciding to leave our polluted oceans and having a refreshing dip in the clean waters of Marina Bay before escaping into the universe as 'reverse UFOs', thereby for one last time trying to entertain and challenge all of us to be more aware of the consequences of our extravagance. The artists created these interactive and imaginative light objects providing an opportunity for visitors to 'grab' the jellyfish's tentacles and keep them on Earth.