Accidental Joys!

There are times when you see something and know that it is going to be fun and exciting! Something that you want to do/ work on/ buy/ get to know/ explore/ visit. But by the time you actually experience it you realize how wrong you were and the same thing has turned into a not so exciting thing or even a nightmare. While on the other hand there are things which you hardly expect anything out of but turn out to be fun and much better than the most appealing ones. Is it because one doesn't really expect much out of it that they eventually seem to be not so bad or even better? May be so ... Or is it because of what YOU MAKE OUT of it? I guess this happens to all in terms of work, personal life/ relations, places and so on.

These are covers for English-Hindi and Hindi-English Dictionary. Dictionary? Maybe not the most interesting brief that you are dyeing to take on. And the deadline was quiet short for the same. But I think I really enjoyed working on this because the my brief to myself was not to make it look like a dictionary for me. Why some thing that didn't excite me should look boring? And I had some fun with both the scripts. Thankfully it was appreciated and approved by all and went into print.

What do you expect when you hear a book about the life of Buddha? I thought I would be expected to look for a nice image/ painting of buddha and do a cover. But to my surprise and thanks to the editor and the author they didn't want to a buddha image on the cover. The Dhamma Man does not blindly revere the god but respectfully chronicles him, occasionally even critiquing Buddha. So I was free to ideate, illustrate and do something other than the buddha face on the cover. And I was very excited with this little surprise that came my way.