World meet Glottosaurus!
Glotto meaning “tongue” is the word I’ve used as the text for my kinetic sculpture. The letters for Tongue in English, ज़ुबान in Hindi and നാക്ക് Malayalam are spread across and turn imitating the way a tongue might articulate the sounds in a mouth. These are also three of the languages I balance as a speaker, reader and writer with varying levels of fluency.
The type designer in me always wants to work with metal. I couldn’t cast type so here I am casting shadows with my metal type. The reptilian quality on its spine as it suspends brings the saurus.
It’s on view at @xxl.gallery till February. Come by and see it move in person
बॉम्बे स्वीट शॉप : Script Adaptation
Early in the lockdown I was working on small personal projects interpreting logos in Devnagri to keep my mind busy from all the uncertainties. Bombay Sweet Shop had opened earlier that year with a mazedaar logo that combined the best of old school indulgent maximalism very sleekly interpreted in an Art Deco style, proved a worthy challenge. The English logo had the words shaped in three separate boxes with varying sizes had me juggling with perspective and proportions for its Marathi counterpart.
So when @pleaseseeus who had designed the delicious English logo reached out to use the Devanagari version I drew, I was over the moon! I cleaned it up a bit and the end result is a beautiful sign that lives outside the @bombaysweetshop Byculla shop.
Shot by @aashim who makes all signs look lovelier.
Fabricated by @jemcoarts
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Empress Court: Signage Design ✨
Last year I got to be part of a special project that merged my love for signage and working with archival material. @artdecomumbai got me on board this project with a unique brief to restore the sign for Empress Court to its original design from 1936.
Thanks to archival photographs courtesy of ADMT and meticulous planning and measurements from the team, I got to re-create the design that now over looks the Oval maidan. Empress Court is a prominent part of the Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and I am thrilled to have played a small part in its typographic revival.
Extremely delighted to have @aashim photograph this beauty in all its glory one fine “Bombay Winter” morning.
Fabricated by @jemcoarts
#ArtDeco #Mumbai #Revival #typography #signage #TanyaTypes #designspiration #typewip #typedesign #itsnicethat #goodtype #goodtypetuesday #posteraday #grafikfeed #aigaeyeondesign #designinspiration #icographica #worldoftype #graphicindex #collectgraphics #grqphiclounge #designarmy #visualjournal #thedesigntip #posterunion #certainmagazine #thedesignblacklist #typematters #TypographyInspired
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Grab a ticket to come make one of your own!
Try your hand at making your own ‘tikats’ by experimenting with colours, textures, words and typefaces. The workshop will introduce the unique elements and formats of these attractive and informative ‘labels’ that circulated in the global textile marketplace as early forms of advertisement.
The session is inspired by the ongoing exhibition, ‘Ticket, Tika, Chaap: The Art of the Trademark in Indo-British Textile Trade’. It is presented by the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in collaboration with the Museum of Art and Photography, Bengaluru and Impart.
Tanya George is an independent designer and researcher with a typographic practice that spans developing typefaces and identities and artworks across various Indian scripts. She graduated from JJ institute of Applied Art, and holds a Masters degree in Typeface Design from the University of Reading. She loves leading TypeWalks and all her puns are intended.
Saturday, 16th May
11 am to 1 pm
Age: 12 and above
Charges: Rs 150 per person, Museum entry ticket applicable
Registration link in bio!
Great two days of powerful creative insight as some of South Asia’s most renowned designers and thinkers take the stage at the Design Dialogue Showcases
Thank you @mooniakhq@pathumego@typethug@aod_design , and the entire @sldesignfest . team for the opportunity and for hosting such a meaningful platform.
#sldf #design #aod #sldf2025 #aodcolombo
संग्रह का दौरा: लेटरफॉर्म आर्काइव का परिचय हिंदी में।
शुक्रवार, ६ फ़रवरी २०२६
सुबह ४:००–५:३० बजे प्रशांत समय (पी टी)
शाम ५:३०–७:०० बजे (आई एस टी)
क्या आप जानते हैं कि जिन अक्षरों से आप पढ़ते और लिखते हैं, उनके पीछे सदियों पुरानी कहानियाँ छुपी हैं?
टॉन्या जॉर्ज आपको अक्षरों की इस दिलचस्प यात्रा पर ले चल रही हैं — जहाँ इंसान ने पहली बार अपने विचारों को दर्ज करना शुरू किया, स्याही और काग़ज़ का इस्तेमाल किया, और आज के डिजिटल व प्रिंटेड टेक्स्ट तक पहुँचा।
लेटरफॉर्म आर्काइव के संग्रह के ज़रिए, आइए आप भी अक्षरों की उन कहानियों को जानें जो डिज़ाइन, इतिहास और संस्कृति को एक साथ जोड़ती हैं।
#हिंदी #अक्षर #कला #डिज़ाइन #रचनात्मकता #इतिहास #हिंदीरील
#भारतीयडिज़ाइन
Collections Tour: Intro to the Archive in Hindi
Fri, Feb 6, 2026
4:00am–5:30am PT
5:30pm–7pm IST
Did you know that the letters you read and write with carry stories that are centuries old?
Tanya George takes you on a fascinating journey through letters, spoken entirely in Hindi — from the moment humans first began recording their thoughts, to the use of ink on paper, and all the way to today’s digital and printed text.
Through the collection at the Letterform Archive, come discover the stories of letters that connect design, history, and culture.
#Hindi #LanguageLearning #GujratiType #HindiType #TypeDesign #TypeClasses #GraphicDesignLearning #ExtendedLearning #OnlineLearning #calligraphy#lettering #typography #graphicdesign #script #handlettering #graphicarts #calligraphicarts#publicationdesign
When Typography met craft at Art Deco Alive! 🏷️✨
Led by Tanya George, participants explored the bold and eclectic world of Art Deco letterforms from around the around & walked away with handcrafted Art Deco postcards of their own - timeless, bold, and personal.
#ArtDecoAlive #Deco100 #MiamiMeetsMumbai
She’s arrived! The AWM WONDER tote is finally stocked for sale!
Gift option #2: WONDER tote by @tanyatypes has been years in the making, travelling across the country with our team and proving she’s quite a keepsake! And for all those who’ve been asking, yes! we have them all embroidered as a sweet treat 💓
Featuring Tanya’s playful typography, this practical manjarpad tote is now up for sale in the link in bio, along with size and other details. Shipping from Pune, only within India.
Show her some love?
🌟 The season of gifting is upon us and we thought we’d help you find a special someone something really special!
Gift option #1: A gorgeous, limited edition, signed serigraph by the truly incredible @tanyatypes . The 2 colour print celebrates WONDER in playfully abstract English, Devanagari and Malayalam script. Can you spot the alphabets? At ₹5000 each we think its an absolute steal 🎉
The perfect gift especially for fans of design, typography, or just about anyone with great style 😉
Link in bio to get one!
WHEN else do you get the loveliest @tanyatypes doing ALL 6 of her Mumbai type walks, multiple times! Swipe > > > and hit the link in bio to explore your options and join her at the @mumbai_walks_fest - just do it 🎉🙌🏽✨
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Tanya George, is an independent typographer, type designer, and design educator based in Bombay. She pursues a wide-ranging independent practice that includes artistic pursuits anchored in letterforms as well as designing letters for brand identities as well as fonts across different Indian Scripts. She also conducts TypeWalks around Mumbai, along with typography workshops, and writes about type. She is a docent and India correspondent for the Letterform Archive.
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Tickets @urbanaut_ at the link in bio🙋🏽♀️🙋🏽♀️
DESIGNING FOR MULTILINGUAL, MULTICULTURAL MARKETS
South Asia's vast linguistic and cultural diversity presents unique design challenges. Sri Lanka, with its intricate history of language politics, faces many of these head-on.
How do you design something—a sign, an app, a book—that truly connects across different scripts and cultures?
WE'LL EXPLORE:
→ What are the real challenges of multilingual design in South Asian contexts?
→ How do we create type systems that work across Sinhala, Tamil, and English?
→ What does language equality look like in visual communication?
→ Real-world examples from designers navigating these complexities
MODERATED BY
Tanya George (India)
Typographer, Type Designer, and Researcher
Independent designer whose work weaves letterforms, identity, and culture across Indian scripts. Designs custom fonts and visual identities, curates typographic walks through Mumbai, and writes for platforms including Letterform Archive where she serves as global docent.
SPEAKERS
Pathum Egodawatta (Sri Lanka)
Type Director, Founder, Mooniak
Transforming how Sinhala and Tamil scripts function digitally. Director of the Institute of Typography—Sri Lanka, establishing new standards for multilingual typography and positioning type as essential infrastructure for cultural communication.
Kosala Senevirathne (Sri Lanka)
Type Designer, Partner at Mooniak
Specializing in Sinhala script with work spanning typeface design, typographic research, and multiscript editorial design. Advocates for language equality and has contributed to numerous multiscript typefaces integrating Sinhala, Tamil, and English.
#MultilingualDesign #Typography #TypeDesign #SinhalaScript #TamilScript #SouthAsianDesign #LanguageEquality #DesignDialogue #SLDF #ScriptDesign #CulturalDesign
Tanya George ( @tanyatypes ) is a Mumbai-based type designer whose practice is anchored in a fascination with the expressive power of letters, stemming from a childhood instinct to draw, decorate, and play with letterforms. “In fact, the logo that I currently use is something that I first sketched in the margins of my notebook in school.”
Today, her work moves fluidly between typography, type design, print, and three-dimensional explorations of script. For George, letters are not merely tools for reading; they are vessels for emotion, mood, and meaning. “I’ve been fascinated with the ability to express things with letters, not just reading them but hiding meaning inside the shapes themselves, whether it’s love or surprise or disgust or horror.”
Her journey formally began at the JJ Institute of Applied Art, where she specialised in calligraphy, typography, and lettering—eventually leading her to pursue a Master’s in typeface design. But the roots of her practice draw from the visual language of cities, old signages, and the textures of everyday life. “Older lettering from books and magazines really inspires me… and the city is a perennial source. I love walking around new cities, taking in the sights, sounds, and smells.”
George’s work often blurs the line between legibility and abstraction, pushing the boundaries of how a letter can exist while still being recognisable. Her sculptural project, Glottosaurus, embodies this spirit. It merges her love of metal type with kinetic mobiles. “As a type designer, I’m very focused on legibility… but the other end of the spectrum interests me too... how much can you skew something and still make it identifiable.”
Using shapes inspired by Hindi, English, and Malayalam, Glottosaurus imagines how sounds might balance, shift, and dance inside the mouth across languages.
📸: Tanya George ( @tanyatypes )
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