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The third edition of skip-a-beat's ongoing commission for Absolut, produced around the brand's Born Colourless ethos — identity, bias, and cultural fluidity explored through a roster of five artists working across illustration, motion, sculpture, and craft. Each artist recorded an episode of The Process, walking through the ideas and instincts behind their commissioned piece, and revealed the finished artwork on Instagram.
Ruining Magazine's contribution to Born Colourless leans on the collage-and-print sensibility the studio is known for, layering found imagery and text to unpack how identity gets flattened by labels. In this episode of The Process, the studio talks through the editorial instincts behind the piece and how a magazine-making practice translates into a single commissioned artwork.
Amrit Pal Singh brings a figurative, hand-drawn approach to Born Colourless, working through personal and cultural memory as material for the commission. The Process episode traces the piece from first sketch to final artwork, with Singh speaking candidly about the references and rituals that shape the work.
Sanskar's piece for Born Colourless pushes toward texture and craft, treating the commission as an object as much as an image. In The Process, Sanskar walks through the making process and how the constraints of the brief pushed the work in an unexpected direction.
Kunel Gaur's Born Colourless commission works through pattern, repetition, and colour as a way of questioning how identity is coded and read. The Process episode gets into Gaur's process for building a visual language from scratch for the brief.
Neethi closes out the 2025 roster with a piece that leans into softness and detail, a counterpoint to the bolder graphic languages elsewhere in the edition. In The Process, Neethi talks through the quieter, more intimate register the commission took on.
