Wednesday 13 February 2013

UNBOX FEST'13


Isuri Dayaratne, a 27 year old illustrator from Colombo, Sri Lanka who joined several other artists, designers and master craftsmen  at the UNBOX FEST'13 shares his experience and illustrations at Writerspoint.

Explore Isuri’s art and quirky characters here.




UnBox Festival is an annual celebration of interdisciplinary thought & work through a series of seminars, performances, exhibitions and talks
Held over four days from February 7-10, UnBox Festival took place at Zorba, New Delhi this year. My first time at this annual event, it was truly an experience for me, where I had the opportunity to showcase my illustration work and collaborate with some amazing artists.

UnBox Festival, being a celebration of different platforms of art, gave the artists as well as the participants a chance to fully  discover and engage in the workshops, music performances and talks that took place over the four days. There were multiple stages, work rooms and open labs that were available to all of us, as well as all day bars and cafes that brought out a community atmosphere.



Throughout the festival I was invited to work at the Print Lab where I had the chance to collaborate with BLOT and Levi’s. Although it was my first time experiencing screen-printing techniques, I got the hang of things by the second day and was even helping out participants make custom t-shirts. All the artists who were working at the Print Lab had pre-made fabric screens of their own artworks and the workshops held over the four days gave participants and artists a chance to work together and experiment with a lot of designs.


Best part of the festival was that all of the events/workshops that were happening around Zorba gave everyone the opportunity to meet a lot of people who came from various backgrounds, be it from art and design to music.





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