I was recently sent on assignment for Lifelounge in India. Between the noise, the smells, the colour and the people - so, so many people - India invades your senses in a relentless information overload. It’s a beautiful, joyous place, but also a place of extreme poverty and harshness. Amazing - yes, but exhausting. Especially when you’re trying to film a seven part documentary series spanning over five cities, including remote Himalayan towns and bustling metropolises, in just over ten days.

But it is a beautiful place, one of the most colourful and lively destinations I have ever visited, and a graphic designer’s utopia. The place is literally covered with some of the most amazing weathered hand painted sign writing I have ever seen. It’s everywhere, and it’s all incredible. Definitely worth the journey for that alone. Read Less