‘Design Thoughts’ as a journal has been in the planning for a while now. The first issue is finally out — with a sincere hope that many more will follow. We wish to publish two issues a year, one at the beginning of the year, in the month of January and the other in the middle of the year, in the month of June. This issue is a collection of thoughts to cover a spectrum of concerns that affect design. Such as, design history (as in ‘Once I Was A Banyan Deer’), design outlook and strategy (Design by People’), design mapping (‘Visual Appetite’), design and storytelling (‘Narrative and Non-Narrative Traditions‘), design process (‘Methodology of Design for the New Post Box’), and typography’s role in design (‘Anatomy of Devanagiri Typefaces’), with case studies wherever applicable.