Lecture on Graphic Design at the C.N College of Fine Arts - Tvak Studios

Riddhi Manna 

Sheth C.N College of Fine Arts 

Lecture on 

an introduction to Communication through Graphic design.

"How we see words and what we show" 

presented by the Tvak studios. 

Ratilal Sir Addressing the students and welcoming them to a new session at the fine arts college. 

Deviba Wala introducing Riddhi Manna

Riddhi Manna held the students attention. 

An insight on how graphic deaigners work, on how subtle everyday things around us can be used to convey a message if put in the right manner using colours, typography and pictures.

It became a really interesting episode with the students exposed to such information in a way that they instantly connected to the topic.  Riddhi shared her experience of the field over the years and the lecture was infused with wit and humour. The professors of the fine arts college also attended the lecture. 

Special thanks to the Principal Mr. Ratilal Kansodaria and Ms Trupti Rawal for always being so supportive. 

Thank you Riddhi for taking the time off to come and speak to the students. 

Serendipity in Imagination .. concept Mural in Metal

Phoenix Tail 

The Gulmohar Tree...

Metal mural concept by Deviba Wala inspired by a dream 

The Summer heat dosent have too many things to look forward to but one thing that gives me joy is the Flame trees that flower during this season .. from the Kesuda to the Gulmoharjust adding a big splash of colour to the landscape ..
The gulmohar is known for it's Flamboyant display of flowers. As a child I collected its flower petals and made numerous handmade cards and stuck them on to sheets of paper and made bookmarks or just let them dry in the pages of books and  would smile when unsuspectingly they fell out of book at random times.
This Last week was no different .. the tree still fascinates me.
I woke up this morning having dreamt of a flaming phoenix with gulmohar petals as its tail and at the cost of sounding insane to the non artistic lot I confess the bird flew and transformed into a metal mural.
on the facade of the studio. 

 guess this is proof I am a dreamer and a sculptor !!!

There is Serendipity in Imagination 

The Gulmohar in Vietnam is called the Phoenix's Tale 

Misha Mintz-Roth. Talk on A component of commerce and transportation in colonial Nairobi : The rickshaw

Misha Mintz-Roth 

The Johns Hopkins University, Department of History, ABD

Saturday Art talk at Tvak Studios. Ahmedabad.

A third-year doctoral student in African history, with a focus on urban cross-cultural exchange in twentieth-century Kenya. I look across Gujarati-, Swahili-, and English-language sources–letters, newspapers, travel diaries, and governmental archives--to write about how Indian, African, and European populations shared city spaces and simultaneously contested each other’s claims to urban resources and belonging. Prior to my academic research, I worked in finance in the United States and Kenya and as a legislative aide with the United States Senate Banking Committee in Washington D.C. I have published as a journalist with The Economist online and The American Interest, and have worked as a research attaché with the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA), a Nairobi-based NGO.  

Misha Demonstrating the importance in  Kenya's urban economic and political development prior to World War II, and the way that something as simple as a rickshaw changed East Africa’s twentieth century in such complex ways.

Misha shared with us a presentation Titled " rickshaw trouble"

: Merchants, Migrants and Nairobi's transportation economy. 

Misha and the residency Artist Jeet Pandya ! 

This was an interesting talk and a true reminder that the talks are held at the studios so that knowledge can be shared and like minded people can meet in an informal setting. 

We wish Misha all the best as he travels to Nairobi to pursue his research and hope he will be back in india soon so we can catch up again. He is truly a Kindled Mind !!