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Aspirational Supplement
Leveraging beauty aspirations to influence vitamin uptake – Indian calcium packaging.
 
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Disrupting Typographic Transit Norms
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Single Serve

In the age of bulk buy and corporate over-packaging, I tend to enjoy street-food experiences on annual trips to the motherland. I’m particularly fond of offerings from roaming roasted peanut & lentil sellers in Mumbai – equipped for the micro-dose single-serve. Goods are freshly roasted and they’ll happily customise the additional spices to your liking. Plus it’s all wrapped up in the recycled goodness of yesterday’s news. Simplicity reigns.

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Mobile Butchery

At Chor Bazaar (Thieves Market) in Mumbai: where India’s cellphones go to die – or more likely get recycled / reincarnated. Who needs an iPad when you can have a keypad?

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Chinese natural resource efficiency – combining vegetable scraps and incense at a grave in Wellington during Ching Ming festival. I’ve also noted the use of broccoli stalk bases as sign holders by Chinese at the local farmers market. Making the most of what nature provides to support human endeavor – from faith to commerce.

Taken on assignment for the Death & Diversity project
Related post: Newspaper to New Paper

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Transcendental Trade

Weights are anointed with holy powder at Grant Rd Market daily. Just one of the many intersections of creed and commerce to be observed across India.

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Sharp Player

Given that today marks the breaking of a month of fasting for Ramadan, I expect that knife sharpeners like this one in Mumbai will be doing a bustling trade as Muslims prepare to feast.
 
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Sustainable fuel sign on recycle truck in New Delhi.

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