Damini & Akshay

Weddings are always fun things! And there was a wedding in the family recently and due to 'my busy college schedule' I was unable to make it.

The person who was getting married was my sister's husband's sister (it sounds distant, but is very close) and she is one of the coolest persons I know! Her husband is equally fun and genius-ey. (If thats a word) :D

For them, I had decided earlier itself that I would make a nameplate, I wanted to give the printing bit a shot as well as see how I could challenge myself to this task. I decided to go in for a Bollywood Theme for this, because they are fun and colourful people!

I wanted to explore the idea of lettering myself and giving it a feel of a movie name. Due to time constraints, I wasn't able to do the practical application of this exercise, but did a digital rendering of the same.

The final design was printed on an A3 thick, glossy card sheet (300 GSM), cut into its size, laminated with a matt finished and framed with a black wooden border. This effect made it look exactly how I wanted it too, not bold and yet bot too subtle.

A pretty cool end project and a wonderful learning experience!


Photographs of the actual nameplate

Ma, holding the nameplate! 

My best wishes to the newest funnest couple! Have a suppperrrrbb time!


Colour for this chappal: Yellow , red and blue!

Documenting Quilting Bollywood

Earlier this semester when I did the Quilting Bollywood course as an Open Elective, I felt that there was a need for me to document the course experience and learnings. So I decided to do this in the form of a publication assignment, as also to learn Indesign. It was a good opportunity to do both.

So began the process of writing the content, thinking of an idea for the publication and then getting down to doing it finally. I was particularly inspired by this book I had once seen in the NID library and thought that it would be great to do something of that sort.

It didnt take me to long to create the content and the design for the publication. I slowly and steadily started to get the hand of Adobe Indesign and much to my pleasure, enjoyed it.

It was simple, plain and an attempt at being 'classic'. The document was printed on cartridge paper for a rustic effect. I enjoyed this self initiated project a lot. The publication was bound in the NID Print Labs and Im very grateful to them for their kind help, as always.


The only issue I felt was that the cover looked a little too simple, I probably will add something to it as soon as there is a little more time to get things done. Here are a few pictures of the printed and bound document.

 Regardless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed doing this!

Colourful for this chappal: Grey and red