Imposter : The Playful Subversions of Orijit Sen – Sudhanva Deshpande

Description

Playful, witty, subversive, fearless against bigotry and hatred, Orijit is known in many ways: meme-maker; co-founder of People Tree, one of India’s funkiest and most ethical retail brands; creator of India’s first graphic novel, River of Stories (1994) . . .

In Imposter, Sudhanva Deshpande identifies the threads that run through Orijit’s work: his anti-capitalist politics, experiments with form and content, and engagement with communities through public art.

Written with the instinct of a curious historian, the book does more: it locates Orijit’s influences and work against the larger arc of design education, the tensions between modern design and traditional craft, the power of comics as serious visual narrative, and the conception of public art.

This richly illustrated book decodes for us – especially the young people in our tumultuous world – how design, art, and politics can intertwine in the practice of citizenship.