People Tree - Delhi/North

Now on the Web, some of the best and maddest People Tree T-shirts, artworks, crafts and books come spiralling out of labyrinthine databases to assemble here, waiting to meet their human counterparts... Perhaps you are one of them?

Shop - Back in 1991, People Tree started life as a design studio-cum- shop in New Delhi . The products featured on this site are current examples of the kind of things we have been designing and trading for over a decade.

Wherever possible, we use natural, non-toxic and bio-degradable materials. We are committed to the promotion of hand skills, self-expression and quality workmanship.

Here, rich and meditative arts traditions collide with shiny plastic instant cheapness. Ochre and madder jostle with fluorescent pink.

Some things die, and sometimes we weep. Sometimes we pick up the pieces and join them in new ways.

Browse through these inventive and irreverent examples of urban-folk, industrial-pop design. We create alternatives to globalised monopolies and branded "hipness", working with the exciting cross-currents of the contemporary South Asian milieu

Handicraft Product - The products featured on this site are current examples of the kind of things we have been designing and trading for over a decade. Wherever possible, we use natural, non-toxic and bio-degradable materials. We are committed to the promotion of hand skills, self-expression and quality workmanship. At the same time we strive to ensure higher wages and better conditions for every worker directly or indirectly associated with our products. As a result, every single product we sell is made with skill, care and sensitivity by people who love what they do, and are very good at it!

As these products are hand-crafted, not produced by mass-production machines, each piece is individual and unique. We cannot ensure complete uniformity across a batch – on the contrary, we revel in the differences that exist from piece to piece.

Natural materials help ensure the sustainability and environment-friendliness of our production processes, but also mean that special care needs to be taken with the finished products.

The Alternative Bookshop - Often people ask us if we publish books, as such people tree has never published any books. Some of us have illustrated them, even written parts of them. But we read books, are inspired by them to create visual images, they expand and deepen our knowledge about all the wonderful, diverse, parallel thinking that's going on in the world.

It was due to our search for the many voices we needed to fuel our energies that we turned to books. At first the books we were reading, lay around us at 8-regal building. Then, when some one would want us to substantiate the 'gut' theories on our t-shirts we decided we'd like to be able to show them where the ideas came from.

And so we went looking for written matter…and got to know a whole lot of people. Other India Press, Third World Network, Bharat Dogra .... Kalpavriksh.

Paper Boat - At Paper Boat we solicit contributions from you in the form of articles, stories, poetry, photos, artworks, comix and cartoons, announcements, etc.

Unfortunately, due to various reasons, we haven't been able to activate this part of the website much as we would like to. Though, the amazing thing is that regardless of
this people have been contributing stuff regularly.

This is very inspiring and has sometimes led to some great collaborations like, for instance,
a t-shirt design which evolved with the participation of 2 young women who contacted
the website. So, we really would like to keep receiving the wonderful poems, articles,
plays, art works, photographs and other creative inputs that have been coming in.
Hopefully they'll lead to some more collaborations in the future. …and one day soon
we will put them up on this section of the website.

Tree People - In New Delhi's old and famous Connaught Circle, during the early summer of 1990, a small group of designers, artists and friends managed – with the help of a few fortunate coincidences – to set up a studio-shop which was remarkably free from the impositions and demands of (heartless) markets and (artless) clients.

The ideas and experimentations that followed were the seed that grew to become the 'People Tree'. Today, all of us at People Tree take pride in our reputation as a small independent business which combines a sense of social purpose and ecological responsibility with the spirit of collective creativity. This has been the vision which has guided our work as a design, production and retail centre.

People Tree Studio - There are some people who dare to be 'different'. Who inhabit a parallel
universe. Live life on their own terms. Create their own unique forms of expression. These are the people who's work we present on these pages.The People Tree STUDIO.

8 Regal Building
Parliament Street
New Delhi 110 001, Tel: +91-(0)11-23340699,23744877