The letters of the alphabet took a long time to evolve, and to get standardised into their present forms, shapes and figurations. In Malayalam too, the artists’ romance with the alphabet has a long ...

At the Grey Gallery, it’s as if you’re inhabiting the artist’s own brush as it hesitates between writing and drawing. By Will Heinrich There’s something thrilling about the extreme flexibility of the ...

For urban users, type is now becoming an exciting way to engage with traditional and contemporary design. For the artists, it’s a new way to keep traditions relevant in a digital age When Ram Keli, ...

G’s that look like I’s, F’s that sound like “Waw,” and Q’s that look like monkeys — man, was our alphabet a mess. That’s because many of our letters began as Egyptian hieroglyph symbols 4,000 years ...

The letters of the Malayalam alphabet with its squiggles, curves and circular shapes fire the imagination of artists to come up with jaw-dropping expressions of creativity. A pioneer in this has been ...