The Street Type Archive by Aashim Tyagi documents the typographic life of cities. From hand-painted shopfronts and fading signboards to contemporary signage, it shows how letters carry stories of history, culture, and everyday life. Over the years, the project has grown into an expansive archive that celebrates the visual language of urban spaces.

This workshop brings that process into a weekend format. On Saturday, we will walk through a Bombay neighbourhood, observing its signs and lettering closely. The aim is to slow down, notice, and understand how typography shapes the built environment while learning simple ways to photograph and record what we see. Unlike a lecture, this is an interactive, hands-on experience where participants learn by looking, doing, and creating.

On Sunday, we will select and edit photographs, add notes, and design a compact poster-zine, a folded sheet that works as both a publication and a poster. By the end of the day, each participant will have created and printed their own zine, a personal record of the city’s typographic character.

The workshop invites participants to notice what usually slips by: painted signs, shopfronts, and letters that shape how we experience a place. Blending walking, photographing, and publishing, it offers a direct, creative way to engage with the city and take home a piece of Bombay’s typographic story.

Aashim will also be conducting artist walkthroughs of his show on the following dates at 5 pm:

9th, 11th, 15th, 16th, 29th and 30th.