Fort Bazaar Typewalk with Tanya George

The Fort Bazaar Typewalk takes you through the oldest marketplace in Mumbai. The port town has been home to people from all over and we look at typographic elements that situate Mumbai in global history but also plot local ones.

I'll walk with you along lanes that have held shops, memorials, and places of worship for centuries. We'll spot the many different languages and scripts, that represent the Indian traders who have shaped the city over the years. We'll also discuss (and possibly debate) what it means to have all these multilingual texts and how the same sign can mean different things to different audiences. We'll get to see languages and scripts that are flourishing and in use today and also ones with extinct scripts, across a range of materials. You'll get to hear my unreserved opinions about all kinds of signs and why I feel that way. And I can't wait to hear yours too!

Tanya George is an independent typographer, type designer, and design educator based in Bombay. She pursues a wide-ranging independent practice that includes artistic pursuits anchored in letterforms as well as designing letters for brand identities as well as fonts across different Indian Scripts. She also conducts TypeWalks around Mumbai, along with typography workshops, and writes about type. She is a docent and India correspondent for the Letterform Archive.