“What’s your Colombo?” It’s the question that the Sri Lanka Design Festival (SLDF) has been asking – not just of designers and artists, but of everyone who calls this city home or has passed through its streets and stories. Because Colombo isn’t just one city; it’s many, each layered with its own rhythm, memory and meaning. For too long, people have passed through Colombo without really seeing it, perhaps because even we, who live within it, haven’t yet found the words to describe it. This...

Pathum Egodawatta In the design world, typography, the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible and visually...

By Shannon Salgadoe Founder of the award-winning Canvas Interior Design Studio Chamika Wickremasinghe who will be designing the sets for...