Dipika Kohli
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Art of making | And then it ended
I am really going to be opinionated, today. There are a lot, and I mean a lot, of things that start but don’t last very long here where I live. In Phnom Penh. People—people from here, people from outside, people with ‘a dream’—they get these projects going with a big rah rah and there are…
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Protected: Dear あ
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Protected: DESK | You have the choice to not overidentify with ‘outcomes’, titles
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Protected: DESK | Dear Art & Copy Zine Club
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Solopreneurship and Co-storming
An opportunity to think it out with us, and a few others, in Design Kompany’s program for SME owners with 5+ years’ experience. Check out the overview here.
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Art & Copy Fringe Popup @ Photo Phnom Penh Festival
Art & Copy will show up at a few fringe events alongside the Photo Phnom Penh Festival, set to take place from October 22 to November 22. Contemporary and historical photography is their theme, and we’ll be sharing some photozines that take inspiration from right here where we live. Discover our version of making photos…
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Protected: DESK | Ex-America
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Protected: DESK | Five reasons to say ‘no’ to people, projects, and opportunities… and five reasons to say ‘yes’
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Kbach :: ក្បាច់ខ្មែរ and Khmer Design
Be part of a conversation about the emerging Khmer aesthetic, by interacting with people in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Kampot who also care about art, design, writing, illustration, sculpture, and architecture. DK have been exploring design in Cambodia since 2013.
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Exploring Taipei
Update: Well I went and checked out a few things over there, and AI was only a tiny bit helpful, it turned out. The most important things I got to do were those that I asked about, of others, in person. ‘Where can I find tea houses and trains and mountains?’ ‘Alishan!’ Or, ‘Which bookshop…
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Memorable Phsar Toch Phsar Thom, ផ្សារតូចផ្សារធំ, delivers art, food, and variety
Lovely to chill out and meet fantastic people creating from their heart to express themselves. I found out about this event from a lot of roundabout sources, as happens sometimes here in Cambodia. There can be some frustration in, for example, being deposited to the wrong location by your tuk tuk driver who also drove…
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What Maya Angelou says about success that you cannot miss
Here’s an update to an old post, because it ties in very nicely with current conversatons that tend to veer at this time of year towards, ‘Reflection.’ The category of purpose, of knowing what matters, of undersanding ourselves, of taking time to suss it all and see what we want to do… next. This is…
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Call for submissions for DESK :: LAYERS
Are you a photographer, poet, writer, or illustrator in Phnom Penh? Submit your work to our next issue of DESK, with our theme LAYERS. A call for submissions is here: https://designkompany.com/call-for-submissions To get an idea of the kind of images we’re looking for, listen this fun interview DK’s Dipika Kohli did a few years ago…
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‘If you like your pictures… then just keep doing it:’ photographer Benjamin Nwaneampeh
Here is a post from our S P A C E podcast series, May 2021, so yeah, around the time the pandemic was ‘lifting,’ sort of, but not really where I was. And we were still all in a funk about meeting people in real life. I personally still am, but it’s not because of…
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‘But don’t forget your happiness’
Update: October 2026 This post was from last year. Happiness, right? It’s still important, not to forget it. I’m going to update this post today with a few extras, in the below original. Joy, happiness, purpose, and life-work balance are some of the popular topics people I read will write about. This seems to be…
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Dear Art & Copy Zine Club
Well done on a terrific issue. Here is Art & Copy, ‘Notes from Elsewhere.’ More info about our club and this issue’s ‘miniparty’ for celebrating its release will be at the ‘upcomings’ page of kismuth.com. Checkit.
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A new issue of DESK covers the 13-year time gap of ‘exit, exile and return’
As a limited edition of 20, this issue gets personal. New original illustration and writing from the desk of DK. A curated set of interviews, personal essays, and short snippets on the reflective points of view from thinkers on ‘returns’. What if there is no ‘going back?’ A study of queries on these lines, this…
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Protected: DESK | The thing I saw after years away from the US, and what it taught me
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Why slowing down can make you faster
‘Slow down to see it.’ Writing about this these days, over at my various newsletters for different groups of people who care about design, journaling, meaningful work, doing what matters, and taking time to really introspect. I’m Dipika Kohli. I guess there’s so much to say about wanting to encourage people to do this, to…
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Protected: DESK | What is good editorial design?
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Protected: DESK | 88 mistakes I made while ‘doing business in Asia’ that actually were wrong globally
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‘It’s so zen’
Thank you to K. for the great compliment on our photography work on IG, the other day on the stop in Taipei. I found out a lot of things that AI said about what I should check out were totally wrong and boring suggestions and then I wrote a long book on LinkedIn in an…
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Art fairs in Southeast Asia
Not sure what I think about this, but then again, I have checked out long ago from the system that is the ‘art world’ so it might not matter to most people what kind of opinion I have. I mean, I quit art shool in New York because the stuckness of thinking what the artspeak…
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The value of a mixed set of sources of input
I write about things I care about like balance, quiet, making space for people to relax and connect. But I also am curious to learn new things, from, as I used to write automatically, new and different others. Found this old article (they mention Twitter like it was Old Twitter, which was good, even great, for…
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Art & Copy Zine Club popup at SF Zine Fest
Make time and meet up in real life with us… if you are in San Francisco we will pop up with our zines at SF Zine Fest this weekend. Book a time to catch us and perhaps meet new others at the event or at nearby locations. Here is a link…