India Street Lettering

When you’re making a book, not everything you’d like to include makes the final cut.

When a Mastodon conversation with Ronan McDonnell meandered into the territory of ghost signs, I was reminded that I had an incomplete post sitting in my drafts about a faded, painted advertisement that I had photographed in Pune back in May.

Lately I’ve been feeling that all I have done this year is talk about this project and the upcoming book non-stop, but few conversations have been as fun to have as the one with Bharti Dharapuram, who is an Associate at the Centre for Science Communication

During the Kickstarter campaign for my upcoming book, India Street Lettering: A Journey through Typographic Craft & Culture, Sam Roberts of Better Letters Magazine, i.e.

In May 2024, I facilitated a three-day typography workshop at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Bangalore that centred on documenting street lettering.

2023 was an exciting year for India Street Lettering: I received a small grant from the Bangalore International Centre (BIC) as part of their B•LORE programme to make a short film about street lettering in Bangalore’s M.G.

In the summer of 2023, I took the plunge to turn my typographic discoveries and theses from India Street Lettering into honest-to-God printed matter: pint-sized, self-published zines that each centre on a tiny sliver of public lettering in India, catalysed