Vanakkam Madras

About this piece

Vanakkam Madras gathers the city into a warm illustrated collage: an auto, a fishing boat, flower and fruit carts, filter coffee, dosai, a paper-wrapped snack and other familiar street-side details. It was designed as an affectionate hello to Chennai and the everyday rituals that make the city feel like home.

The A5 fine-bound notebook has a sturdy 300 gsm illustrated cover, 100 gsm unruled paper and 80 pages, giving writing and sketching room without prescribing how each page should be used.

Use it for everyday notes, journaling, planning, travel memories or free-form sketches. It also makes a useful gift for a writer, student, traveller or someone personally connected to the subject on the cover.

The original artwork and product design are by Aishwarya Ashok for Rue Des Arts. Each piece is produced in a small batch, checked in the studio and packed with care for delivery across India.