TSK Design

A sneak peak at this beautiful book my team and I have spent many years labouring over. It’s finally out! BANGALOREAN: Portraits and Stories from a Changing City will launch with a digital exhibition at Museum of Art & Photography museum this weekend.

I’ve realised one has to be crazy to design books (yes it takes a long time to create a 375 page tome!)! But there’s nothing quite like the feeling of holding a rich and layered book in your hands, and the smell of ink on paper.The fabric for the cover was custom dyed to get us that deep shade of green so that the metallic green foil would shine on it like magic! The old and the new, the tactile and the glossy come together on the cover to represent Bangalore, a city of paradoxes. A city struggling to keep up with its own promise - and the stories of the people - resilient, open and generous, that make up the fabric of Bangalore.

The idea for the book was birthed by the curator Kaveri Sinhji, Photography by Ekaterina Zhilina-Antoni and Chris Page, Text by Farrah Gillani and Melissa Parkerton. And finally my talented design team who’ve made this all happen Prashant Varma, Robby Banner and the best printers in India who did countless experiments to get that cover right! Pragati Group