The Mishti Notebook

Project Name: The Mishti Notebook

Guide: Tarun Deep Girdher, National Institute of Design.

Category: Skill Based Project. Screen Printing and Illustration

Project blog link: http://banglasweets.wordpress.com/

Process Document Link: The Mishti Notebook – Process Document

Available at: The Nidus Store at National Institute of Design, Paldi, Ahmedabad.

Project Brief:

The Mishti Notebook is a project close to my heart, wherein I experimented with screen printing techniques at the Print Labs at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. It also involved illustrations done specifically for screen printing based on the culture of ‘sweets’ or ‘mishtis’ that are so famous in Bengal. The final outcome were cream papered notebooks that were screen printed and designed to showcase the myriad forms of sweets of Bengal.

Initial ideation sketches:

Sketches for initial ideation: Gupi-Bagha Series

Sketches for initial ideation: Khirer Putul (Doll made of Chena) Series

Digital Artworks:

I experimented on three themes based on the study of the popularity of sweets found in Bengali Literature, Cultural festivals like Durga Pujo where sweets are fed to Goddess Durga on the last day of the festival to bid her good bye and Bengali Cinemas like “Pather Panchali (The Song of the Little Road)” and “Gupi Gyne Bagha Byne ( Magical Singers) by Satyajit Ray.