Print Circulation
Collaborative ways lead to extraordinary results in printmaking: Dakoji
Quite fittingly, the sprawling National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Bengaluru is paying tribute to one of India's legendary master printmakers, 79-year-old Devraj Dakoji. A retrospective that showcases over 600 of this prolific artist's works (which he says he whittled down from 3,000-plus) also highlights a unique problem that India faces Dakoji is its last 'Master Printmaker'. The curating team of the exhibition, which is on till October 10, has traced printmaking in India to when the Portuguese brought the printing press to Goa. One of its earliest highs was when Ravi Varma's popular paintings were printed as oleographs. According to curators, post 1990s, digital technology led to its significant transformation. In recent years, artists like Jyoti Bhatt, Nataraj Sharma, Ravikumar Kashi, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, Ranbir Kaleka, Baiju Parthan, Pushpamala N, Akbar Padamsee, Rameshwar Broota and Gogi Saroj Pal, to name a few, created interesting visual vocabulary through ...
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Calendar printing business slumps in post-Covid times, age of mobile phones
After wall clocks, it is now the calendars that are vanishing from the walls
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Print media revenue set to rebound by 20% to Rs 27,000cr: Report
Crisil said ad revenue will rebound as economic activity improves, given their high correlation, while reopening of offices and people moving back to offices will help shore up subscription revenue
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Print circulation in India bucks global trend; grows 4.8% over last decade
According to data released by the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC), Indian print publications have seen an increase in average daily circulation of 2.37 crore copies during the 2006-2016 period. From 3.91 crore in 2006, the average number of copies circulated per day grew to 6.28 crore, registering a CAGR of 4.87 per cent. Among the four geographic zones, North shows the highest growth at 7.83 per cent while South, West and East showed growth at 4.95 per cent, 2.81 per cent and 2.63 per cent respectively. In this regard, India is bucking the international trend where print circulation is on the decline, losing out to digital news consumption. As part of the half yearly data released by ABC for the July-December 2016 period, the circulation audit body quoted the WAN-INRA WPT 2016 Report (an international report on paid print circulation trends) where compared to developed economies like USA, Germany, France, Japan, Australia and UK, India showed 14 per cent, 18 per cent and 12 per ...
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