We are in the last stretch of a long grueling, unbearably hot summer over here. The monsoon is late, the threat of a super El Niño is becoming more real and daunting with each days passing and Mumbai has about 40 days left of water supply. Throw in a never ending series of heatwaves mixed with perimenopause and it makes for a very exhausted Cyn with almost no creative juice left. The problem is that when you are a commercial artist and sell on print-on-demand platform, you've got to keep...

You've probably heard it a lot in the surface pattern design industry : collections are important. Be it on print on demand or when you plan on licensing your work, you have a better chance at appealing to a buyer if you have a collection of coordinated patterns they can chose from. That's where things can start feeling very daunting and if you are sitting in the corner scared to try, I hear you! I've been there and I stuck to making random patterns for YEARS without putting thought into...

Every year between December and January designers are scooping the upcoming trends and planning their portfolio strategy., I'm no different, I look at Cat Coq's trend report , the Pinterest trend report and have a look at WGSN on their Instagram handle to get a feel of what's trending, and of course I look at fashion designers' shows as well. This is this combination of sources that lead me to put together my new collection : Frogs in bloom . Cat predicted in her report that both frogs and...