South Asian Newspaper

This newspaper and many more from this collection have historical materials, including extensive archives of "Deepika," a Malayalam newspaper published in Kottayam, Kerala, since the 1940s, as well as a comprehensive archive of "Madinah," an Urdu newspaper established in Bijnor, Central India, in 1912. Beyond newspapers, it also encompasses literary magazines and publications associated with political parties, including communist periodicals from South India. 

The newspaper is a way for designers to participate in the (19th c) public sphere.  Newspapers were the way to collect information from all around the world, collect information from different people and parties, and let people have an opinion and say while sharing that with others and interacting with their options and information and that was the key part of the public sphere of the way that it was like in the 1900. I think that it is super efficient as a designer to be able to collect the information whether you collect it or receive it yourself. And then to be able to take people's voices, ideas, and lives, then to put that into a body of text that can be legible and successful for anyone to read that and understand what they are reading. Designers have the job of making people's words and ideas alive in the way that it is displayed visually and designed into a paragraph. This newspaper was one of the examples of how graphic designers can successfully display information from a large body of text. They use subheadings, titles, text, and imagery which is what we use today.