Kala Bhavana campus

The project which I have taken up for my final year Diploma is: Designing a signage system for all the heritage sculptures and murals which exist inside Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, Visva Bharati campus.

My foremost step in this project is to understand the values and the history which have been concieved by Rabindranath Tagore, the founder of the university and all the maestros like Nandalal Bose, Benodbihari Mukherjee, Ramkinkar Baij who served as the pedestals of the epitome of creativity

The campus has its own philosophies and own views of education which is unique and different from any other Art and Design Institute. A place where everything has rhythm and rhyme, nature, free flowing spontaneity and where there is no bound for creativity.
The murals and the open air sculptures inside the Kala Bhavana campus are the tradition and the interrelation between art and atmosphere. The Great Artists along with their students experimented with different forms and techniques and created these master pieces. The murals are not just reliefs or paintings on the wall, they generate vitality in the buildings and the premises. The sculptures add a distinct dimension to the surroundings. They add a visual narrative to the life and environment which one cannot deny.

There are certain internal features and different techniques which have been used for the murals which I am going to research on. The dynamic styles, techniques, their complexity, architecture, their physical context, history and the sense of perpetuality give a vast scope of knowledge.

Right now these sculptures and murals do not display any kind of information about the artists or age of birth or any kind of identification signage on them. The challenge for me as a Visual Communicator is to design a solution for it without breaking its own tradition and values.