Tashi was born in England in the year of the water tiger, for the past 30 years he has studied an eclectic range of artistic disciplines within both the Eastern and Western traditions in his journey as a painter and calligrapher.

Part of Tashi’s monastic training was in 1988 to enter a closed four year Buddhist retreat, which also gave a sensitive environment to meticulously copy ancient Tibetan texts, furthering his training as a scribe in the highly disciplined, and multiple forms of Tibetan calligraphy.

In 2000 Tashi Travelled to India, where in Dharamsala he was privileged to study under a master of ancient Sanskrit: Lama Pema Lodrup, These artistic forms of Sanskrit called Lanza and Wartu, are preserved by only a handful of practitioners in the world today….

More > www.tashimannox.com
Video > A short film about Tashi’s work

Transformation
This painting shows three rare blue lotus flowers representing the ‘past, present and future’ the passing of time.

Laughing in the face of Pride

Laughing in the face of Stupidity

Homage to Mahakala

Holga . D concept is a digital camera inspired from the extremely popular cult of Holga and other toy cameras of its kind.

Obligatory designer clock

Exterior of the new trains for Mumbai (Bombay) sub-urban railways.

More info > www.saikatbiswas.com

You gota love letterpress printing and the work of Priya Patel over @ Love Made Visible. Invites printed by Studio on Fire

I particularly like the clean typography, use of colour and the detailed digital illustrations printed on the vellum sheet of the second invites.

A ton of fashion loveliness over here as well > http://www.pomegranita.com/

Some concepts for the redesign of the usually confusing and badly laid out boarding pass.

Although these days most carriers let you print your own badly designed pass with all the details on an A4 sheet.

By Tyler Thompson

By JJ at Graphicology

By Brent Gentile

By Davin Yoon

More > http://passfail.squarespace.com/

Been meaning to blog this for ages now, stunning work , great style and beautifully executed

Sanjay is an animator and storyboard artist for Pixar Animation Studios, where he has worked on features that include Monsters, Inc., A Bugs Life; Toy Story 2; and The Incredibles. He has also worked on The Simpsons for Fox and with legendary cartoonist John K., creator of Ren and Stimpy.

Heres some of his most recent work:

Ramayana: Divine Loophole – BUY

The Little Book of Hindu Deities – BUY

An an interview: This Week: Sanjay Patel

> www.gheehappy.com

12″ vinyl sleeve design for foward thinking dubstep label Deepmedi Records
I was asked to design the sleeve featuring a sadhu in a transcending meditative pose for this double vinyl EP from V.I.V.E.K

The tracks are dark & subtle with deep base, space and texture laced all over.

Heres how the cover artwork developed:

Initial sadhu sketch

Edited and digitally painted + devi lamps

Stars / Cosmic background detail

Spine aged texture

Recommended typography and layout – Click image to view larger or cilc here

Labels 1 and 2 of 4
The labels were eventually changed to the generic Deepmedi labels to keep inline with the record label.

Final edited sleeve 

You can here the rest of the tracks > Here

If you into your dubstep then also check out the beautiful Natural Mystic previously featured on the Cabein Blog.

> www.myspace.com/vivek321
> www.deepmedi.com

Art House is based in Brooklyn, NY and builds international art projects tie thousands of artists together –and anyone can participate.

Dopeness!

Each artist is sent the same blank Moleskine sketchbook. We’ve only got two rules: first, the book must be used in some way – no sending us back an empty book or a completely different book! Second, the sketchbook must stay within its original dimensions (because we don’t want to have to provide an extra suitcase just for your book while we’re touring the country).

Each book will be given a barcode so we can easily catalog it into The Brooklyn Art Library system. Once we catalog it, artists will be able to track where on the tour their book is viewed and how many times someone pulled it from the shelf – we want to make sure you can stay connected with your sketchbook!

A brilliant idea set-up by Steven Peterman & Shane Zucker 3 yrs ago. 
> Read More

Seems like the online payment system is only allowing people with a US billing address to enter at the moment, while Art House sorts out they funds. But got a friend to purchase mine and post it out to me. Should arrive in a few weeks. I choose the title “Where i live” for my sketchbook, there are a few other options to choose from check the site.

> http://arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject

The International Network for Training, Education and Research in Burns is a non-profit, independent organisation with collaborating centres currently in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Wales.

Interburns was founded informally in 2006 by three Surgeons. Tom Potokar (Wales, UK), Shobha Chamania (Indore, India) and Shariq Ali (Karachi , Pakistan). In 2007, they decided to formalise their passion for the cause of burn injuries worldwide and in January 2008, Interburns was incorporated as a UK registered charity, which led to an active partnership between the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery, UK, Choithram Surgical Research Burns Centre, Indore, India, and Dow University Medical College Burn Unit, Karachi, Pakistan. This core group quickly inspired other international health-care professionals to become involved in the vision.

I designed Interburns first annual report, a 27 page document with the aim to help Interburns raise awareness and funds through donations and as an internal guide to chart the charities progress.

Written and complied by Ruthann Fanstone
Photography by Nathan West & Junaed Rahman

You can view a PDF version of the document 
> Here

Bang Bang Films is a Bombay-based commercials production company that is dedicated to the internationalization of the Indian media & entertainment sectors. With a global pool of directorial, artistic and technical resources, both exclusive and freelance, Bang Bang is India’s international production company, servicing top-tier agencies and blue chip clients in markets across the world.

You can view some of their work here
> Bang Bang Films – Production Showreel

I was asked to design the front-end of the companies new flash website. The initial concept was developed by Bang Bang Films with the site starting with a game and flowing into the main site. I provided screen-grabs and elements for animation while Bang Bang Films built and animated the final site.

Initial development

A few research images for the cityscape. A mixture of Bombay Gothic, contemporary architecture and the newly built Worli Sea Link

Vehicle designs

Full cityscape – Click image to view full size

Screen-grabs :
Opening load page  for the game

Dodging traffic

Game Over

After the game the rickshaw drives into the city toward the Bang Bang Films offices …

Navigation and content

The site is not 100% what i spec’ed, as the animation and build appears to have been done by blinksolution
A shame really, as it could have been much slicker.

> http://www.bangbang-films.com

Australia’s largest and most exciting international festival of contemporary art. Includes information, images and articles on the upcoming exhibition.

Awesome Typo

More 
> http://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/