Design Milk, September 2013

This is a profile piece I wrote for American design blog, Design Milk, on one of the stars of 2013’s London Design Festival, Kangan Arora…
Kangan Arora

I met Kangan Arora when she was exhibiting with other Central Saint Martins graduates at Pulse last year, so it was great to see her with her own stand at designjunction. We talked inspirations, childhood dreams, 60s Bollywood music and masala chai… here is the designer describing her work in her own words:

My country inspires me endlessly. I like visuals more than words. My work is about colour, print and pattern… and a bit more colour for good measure.

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Design Milk, September 2013

My role as Editor at Large for Design Milk involves hopping all over Europe covering the design trade shows, and of course, this includes the London Design Festival. Here is the post I wrote covering one of the ‘big four’ designjunction…
designjunction

designjunction returned to the London Design Festival for its third iteration (its second in the former Royal Mail sorting office) with a cacophony of design, color, pattern and texture that was at times almost overwhelming in its intensity. Providing a moment of calm amongst the chaos, Thorody’s new fabric (above) is named after the founders’ cat Ivor!

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