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V I M A L E S H GHODESWAR Vimalesh Ghodeswar is an Indian f ilmmaker and an Urdu poet. He is a graduate from the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute of India. He loves the multiplicity of media and is as much invested in the artistic process as in the artistic product. He seeks simplicity through his frames and words, minimalistic but expansive and spacious. Though Vimal is currently working in the f ilm industries of Bombay, his heart and art throbs in Central India from which he hails.
L A H ICCUP Life in Waterloo, Iowa (a place you want to hate, but have to love) is what got the creative juices cooking for La Hiccup. La Hiccup started out by straight up printing onto adhesive labels, USPS 228 labels, and vinyl papers. Eventually, La Hiccup began carving and block printing on to different labels and sticker sheets, which led to learning to screen print. ig @kennedyisback
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5 KN53 TITIKSHA ROUT Titiksha Rout from Bangalore, India, like many 18 year olds, is attempting to make her mark on the world. She currently studies design, and uses writing as a way to let her words move to other parts of the world and to different societies. One day she would like to explore photography. e titiksha.rout @gmail
JULIAN WILLIAMS Julian Williams is a German-American graphic designer currently working for Nike Brand Design in the Netherlands. He was raised back and forth between Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany, and El Paso, Texas. Graphic Design is the greatest thing that ever happened to him. w joofwoof.com e joof woof@gmail ig @ j o o f w o o f
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As an evolving artist, I try to observe the patterns of every new challenge, prepare myself, and launch into another journey towards simplicity. As the poet Ghalib said, “Challenges got so tough on me, they became easy.” My goal is that my photography represents this drive towards simplicity as well as the unity between my hands and my creative mind. Several emotions are endangered in the process of urbanization and other cultural shifts, and my photographs look for their roots—in the hope that viewers get a chance to feel a rare emotion.
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A WORKER a worker white washing the wall
RAAGA BHAIRAV sunrise with a tree
BAHAAR (THE SPRING) FIRST FRAME paddy field
a village landscape
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DARKHAT-E-JAAN (THE SURVIVOR) an old tree near a road
CROW SONG sea and a man feeding crows
I AM WHITE; YOU ARE BLUE a girl watching the sea
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JALEBIYAA (A SWEET DISH) market food
TRICOLOR a hut with a pair of shoes
MY TURN in a village children are playing on the ground
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SHAFAQ (THE REDNESS IN THE SKY) two labourers are unloading a truck in the evening
COLORS FOR YOU a shopkeeper showing the fabric in his shop
WHEN THE TRAIN STOPS a simple view of a village from train
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I’ve been bored and lazy in a place called Waterloo, IA. I’m not sure if it’s exciting at all. I was drawing one day while watching YouTube, and the guy said, “Kennedy is back.” Referring to the former president and reincarnation. In that picture, it was just a nonsense banner, and then I typed it out in a stamp typeface, printed stickers, and that’s how it started. Then came more pictures and more stickers; stencils and more stickers. After all of that I had a DIY screen-print built as a gift. I also write music under the name B Team Riot Squad. I live the weird American dream and continue to make art as a way to help express my thoughts and ideas.
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COLLAGES #3
SUPERLAME.TSHIRT
LISTEN TO PINK ROSES
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KENNEDY IS BACK (RETROWAVED)
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QUESTION THOUGHTS MONKEY BUSINESS
SOMETIMES I DREAM ABOUT THE CITY
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COLLAGES #10-1
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COLLAGES #7-1
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27 KN53 TITIKSHA ROUT In Indian society there is constant judgement. Writing helps me escape from the spotlight of shame to a space of solitude and comfort. Since my childhood I’ve had a keen interest in writing poems, though at that time I may have only been rhyming words together and singing them along. My mother always encouraged me in my writings, though she neither told me what poems are nor explained how to frame words into sentences, she always sat next to me when I penned down small phrases and clapped at the end of every song. Her unspoken language gave me so much.
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MY MOTHER FIRST TAUGHT ME
my mother first taught me poems have rhythm and poems were nothing but curved cracks on carved monuments
she told me i remember quite well, poems are the ripples on the water, soft and faint. as fluid as your thoughts poems they are nothing but colors to a blind human
and i recall it clearly how her eyes sparkled with dew drops on her eyelash when she spoke so purely about letters and words as if they were the only map discovered and yet i can’t speak as to how she made so much sense when she spoke about the moon falling in love with the earth
and yet i am here staring at the same moon every night trying to call out to you, mother asking you if the earth ever reciprocated
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Visually, and conceptually, my designs draw influence from my cultural background. The visuals reflect the seriousness and directness of German design aesthetic, while the concepts themselves are influenced by American pop, whimsy, and openness. I apply this to both my personal and commercial work (though I believe all work is personal work). I find great value in recognizing relationships in visuals, and establishing new ones between the viewer, what they are looking at, and the maker. Relationships build the backbone of our world. As such, I have no problem plugging the people I’ve met, places I’ve been, and experiences I’ve had into the work I create. Because of this, the imagery I depict ranges from political, to personal, to unrecognizable. I want these simple, little symbols to affect people in a not so simple way.
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MI CIUDAD
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GOT IT FROM MY MAMMA
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DILDO
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DON’T LOOK BACK IN ANGER LUCHA DE AMOR
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Being born and raised in Indonesia has given me perspective and has made me grateful. Everyday there is another problem: the economy crisis, corrupted education systems, violations of human rights, etc. But I thank God I have also a beautiful culture surrounding me. I think Indonesia is a little like heaven on earth; there is always light in the dark. Milagro translates to “miracle� in Spanish. I use the word milagro because I believe there is a miracle in every single person. There is a miracle in every single place in this world.
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