Design Exchange Magazine were kind enough to feature my Indian matchbox collection in their latest issue. The magazine can be viewed online. Well worth checking out…

http://www.demagazine.co.uk/

A course I facilitated this week with Foundation students at Srishti…

Dates: August 31st to September 8th 2008
Facilitator: Matt Lee/ Ravindra G/ Raghu Rao

Course Abstract: This course introduces various methods and techniques with which to construct 3D form. The objective is to enable students to explore these different methods, and understand the properties of various palpable materials in order to be able to translate their ideas into sculptural forms. Student’s explore materials such as clay, wire, mesh, wood and plaster while engaging with themes such as metamorphosis, hybrid and movement in space.

More photos from this course can be seen here…http://matt-lee.com/index.php?/other/3d-form/

Creative Contacts India recently asked me to do a short 3 question interview for their brand new blog, The Escalator. Read it here… http://creativecontacts.tumblr.com/

Some drawings and icons I did recently for the new Unanimis website are now online. Unanimis are a web-based company that brings online advertisers and publishers together.

See them at http://www.unanimis.co.uk

Just added to my site an ongoing series of photographs exploring the relationship between iconic, large scale advertising billboards and the surrounding environments in which they are situated. These photographs were taken in Bangalore, Varanasi and Kerala, India.

See the full series here.

Today the 10 day Ganasha festival started here in India. Its ace. lots of large, brightly coloured Ganesha idols for sale on street corners, taking rides through town on the back of trucks followed by processions of people playing drums, and then being dumped into the local lake. Surreal.

Find out more about it here.

Have just added a new series to my website. These photographs of mannequins were taken during the past year or so in both Bangalore and London. The full series is here.

Studio course I facilitated this week with Srishti Foundation design students on the concept of City…

Dates: 10th – 14th August 2009 (wk6)
Facilitators: Matt Lee/ Ravindra G/ Kripa Bhatia

Course Abstract: Studio is a reflective space provided for students to take their learning from two of their previous core courses to a more informed level. This course prepares students for projects constructed in the context of the previous courses in the coming week. In a time line studio 1 is situated between Courses: Perspective & Mapping and Projects: Problematic space, Practical space & Utopian space.

Studio 1 explores the concept of city through discussion, categorization, readings, firsthand experience and presentations. Drawing and reportage tools are used as a form of immersion and interaction, to document the tangible and intangible dynamics of city, observing how space gets constructed, used and adapted. These understandings are then used to formulate design led contextual initiatives.

A course I have been taking this week with Foundation students of Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore. More images will be added to the Srishti course archive over at…

http://cema.srishti.ac.in/archive/story/fsp-101-data-mapping

Dates: 3rd – 8th August 2009 (wk5)
Facilitators: Matt Lee/ Raghu Rao/ Ramesh Kalkur

Outline: This component of the perspective/mapping course will introduce students’ to forms of non-geographical mapping, to deconstruct stereotypical notions and to explore mapping as a powerful, persuasive and thought provoking visual communicative tool.

Students’ will understand mapping as a symbiotic relationship between information and aesthetics through exercises that use a variety or visual forms, driven by the tool or topic they are representing. This component will advance skills in conceptualization, data collection, data processing, data visualization and representation through signs, symbols and visual codes.

Exercise 1. Mapping Comparative Personal Data

Exercise 2. Mapping Conversation (Group & individual)

Exercise 3. Mapping Personal/ World Events