Priya Kuriyan is a renowned children's book writer-illustrator and comics maker. She is the author of the comic book Ammachi's Glass, and the author of the picture book and children's adaptation of the writer Perumal Murugan's acclaimed novel Poonachi. Kuriyan was the recipient of the Big Little Book Award at the Mumbai Literature Festival in 2019. RELEVANT LINKS (Chronological) Priya Kuriyan - https://www.instagram.com/priyakuriyan Her Wikipedia Page -...

Neethi is an illustrator, muralist and surface pattern designer based out of Bangalore, India. She has illustrated for companies like Google, Instagram, WeWork, NPR, Whatsapp and Mahindra, amongst others, and is currently a Creative Partner at studio How About That! Bright, fantastical, pattern-infused still life and exaggerated interior scenes are a recurring theme in her work. She aims to captivate and transport her audience into these worlds. Neethi proudly carries a mononymous name,...

Pulak Bhatnagar is the founder of PulakB Design, a studio that specializes in Branding, UI design and Storytelling. Over the last 11 years of his career, Pulak has worked with various brands and renowned design studios. Pulak’s client list has gone on to include art festivals, fin-med-edu-tech startups, hotels, healthcare and wellness brands, paper companies, magazines, contemporary artists, street culture brands, FMCG brands, alcobev brands, architecture firms, sports organisations and...

Nidhi is a multi-disciplinary creative based out of Washington, D.C. She applies design methodologies to reimagine civic infrastructure. Her value centered practice focuses on deconstructing nebulous concepts, bringing people together, and breaking down complex problems—for better and equitable services. She has spent the past four years in the local government. She has collected a range of partners, collaborators, and clients in the last few years, starting from ArtCenter College of Design,...

Somnath Bhatt is a designer, artist, and writer who lives between Ahmedabad and New York City. His work has been shown at MoMA PS1, Art Week Dubai, India Art Fair, the ICA London, and Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète, among other venues. Selected clients include Instagram, the New York Times, The New Yorker, Reebok, HYEIN SEO, and the musicians Nicolás Jaar and Mitski. Currently he is an Art Director at Bloomberg. He also works as a contributing editor at MOLD Magazine and AIGA Eye on Design....

Parimal is an Indian Type and Graphic Designer. Parimal has designed some retail typefaces with ITF i.e Indian Type Foundry and Typotheque. Some of the notable typefaces he has designed are ITF Gujarati, Lava Devanagari and Katana. Katana is one of my favourite typefaces. He is also working on a typeface for Sharda Script. Sharda is a script native to the Kashmir region. RELEVANT LINKS (Chronological) Parimal’s WebSite - parimalparmar.in Stefan Sagmeister -...

Anurag is a product designer based out of Bengaluru. He worked at Uber India as a Senior Product designer for over 5 years. He is known for his work on Uber Lite, Uber Bus and Phone call to ride. Before Uber, he worked briefly at Twitter and Microsoft. Now, he’s a co-founder of an on-demand interviewing platform called Intervue. Besides Design, Anurag also has a strong passion for Food. His love for food landed him at Le Cordon Bleu in London, where he pursued a professional culinary...

Khyati graduated from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and has since, gone on to work across disciplines, often exploring the edges of all things visual for clients including Instagram, Snapchat, New Yorker Magazine, the New York Times, Samsung, PRINT, Wework, Adobe and Apple. Her work is playful, emotive and dimensional and has been featured in publications such as WIRED, Vice, Communication Arts, Fast Company, Creative Review, It’s Nice That and Wepresent among others. Khyati...

Aarman Roy is a young visual artists and graphic designer from New Delhi, India. He is currently pursuing a BFA in Design from School of Visual Arts, New York. Along with his partner Charu, Aarman Co-founded Akademi Magazine, a leftist print and web publication dedicated to politics, art, culture and society. Aarman overlooks Creative Direction at Akademi. With the tools of graphic design, Aarman liked to create work that’s diverse and beautiful, and the kind of work that pushes aesthetic...

Lisa joined Itu Chaudhuri Design (ICD) soon after her graduation in 1997 from the National Institute of Design (NID), where she studied Visual Communication, and has been a principal at Itu Chaudhri’s Design for over a decade. Lisa leads their UI/UX projects, both ERP and editorial, maintaining a keen, yet skeptical eye on novel developments. Lisa has taught and judged at the NID and and has been a jury member, moderator speaker at UX events. On this episode, we talk about the series of...

Balaram is a veteran industrial designer and educator. He was among the first batch of trainees at the National Institute of design. Later he served as a senior faculty and Chairman of Education at the NID. After retiring from NID, he served as a Dean at DJ Academy of Design, Coimbatore. He also helped in the formation of the Craft Development Institute in J&K. Currently, he is the Director of SASI Creative Colleges, Coimbatore. Apart from his contribution to design education in India, he...

Kalapi is an Indian typeface designer and font engineer. He graduated from The Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda. And he later pursued his post-graduation in Typeface Design from University of Reading. In 2016, he joined forces with friend and fellow University of Reading graduate Gunnar Vilhjálmsson to set-up Universal Thirst, a design practice specialising in developing typefaces for writing systems of the Indian sub-continent. Universal Thirst has designed multiple latin and Indic bespoke...

Sneha is a young designer, art director and illustrator, based out of Bangalore. She graduated from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad with a specialisation in Graphic Design. Sneha has worked with various design studios and tech-companies. She also worked as an in-house designer, and later, Creative Lead at Unacademy, an education technology startup that has grown into a unicorn and household name. Soon, Sneha will be starting Prophecy, a design consultancy while she also pursues...

Anant is a creative entrepreneur and design evangelist from New Delhi. He is an alumnus of Wanganui School of Design. New Zealand. He started his first company Inchworks at the age of 23. Currently, he is the Co-founder of The Irregulars Art Fair and creative agency called Bakheda. On this episode, we talk about Anant’s journey as a designer, about the ventures he started and his opinions on design entrepreneurship. Anant also shares with us his personal tips on networking, time management...

Ishita is an illustrator and graphic designer from New Delhi. She is a graduate of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and is currently pursuing her masters in Illustration as Visual Essay at the School of Visual Arts, New York. She loves to document moments from her life and travels in her sketchbooks. She co-authored and illustrated - The Girl who went to the Stars and Other Extraordinary Lives, a book published by Penguin Random House, India. On this episode, we talk about Ishita’s...

Ashwini is the co-founder of Elephant Design, India’s largest independent integrated design consultancy with offices in India & Singapore. On this episode, we talk about Ashwini’s journey as a designer, how and why she started Elephant Design with her friends. She also shares with us the thought and process behind some key projects created by the studio. We discuss the unique challenges of being a design entrepreneur in India and about sustaining India’s oldest and largest...

Ritesh began his career advertising while at Wieden+Kennedy, Deutsch, and Saatchi & Saatchi and has since transitioned to leading Product Design and Branding in-house at mission-driven startups. He recently led a 360-degrees rebrand of a dog food startup called Pet Plate with Sagmeister & Walsh and R/GA, while serving as the Senior Director of Brand & UX. Currently, he is working with Serial Box, where he is (re)designing, (re)building, (re)positioning, & (re)branding the...

Kimya Gandhi is a type designer from Mumbai with a passionate interest in Indic type design. She is an alumnus of National institute of Fashion Technology and Industrial Design Centre, IIT Mumbai. She got her professional start interning at Linotype in 2010. Over the next few years she freelanced for several type foundries catering to their multi-script requirements. In 2015, she became a partner at Mota Italic and now focuses on Indic and Latin designs for retail and custom corporate...

Seyi Olusanya and Damilola Marcus are the founders of Dá Design Studio, a brand identity design studio from Lagos. Dá Design believes in pushing the boundaries of brand expression in Nigeria, testing the zeitgeist and most importantly, creating effectively communication. On this episode we will talk about Damilola and Seyi’s journey as designers, about the formation of da design studio and about the iconic work created by the studio. We will also talk about the unique challenges and...

Rajesh Dahiya is a designer, brand consultant and design educator. He graduated from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and later he pursued a Masters programme at Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea in Italy with specialisation in Interaction Design. In 2004 he started his own studio Codesign. The studio designs identity and communication to connect ideas and people, creating impact for brands and value for organisations. Since its inception, the studio has worked across industry...

Neha is the founder and principal designer of NH1 Design, which is an integrated branding consultancy firm from Gurgaon. What makes NH1’s work unique is the emphasis on the design approach that focussed on storytelling, touching emotions and creating thoughtful experiences. On today’s episode, we talk about Neha’s journey as a designer and about how she started her own design practise - NH1 Design. She also shares with us the thinking and process behind some of the interesting work that the...

Jasjyot is an illustrator who is inspired by an explosive neon mix of fashion, music and pop culture. His work chronicles around themes of body image, sexuality and self love. On this episode, we talk about Jasjyot’s life and his journey towards becoming the amazing artist he is now. We talk about zines, illustrations and fashion. Jasjyot shares with us some extremely personal experiences that had a formative impact on him. DISCLAIMER : The episode contains explicit...

Itu Chaudhuri completed his bachelor’s degree in architecture from SPA, Delhi, but left that profession to pursue his interest in Graphic Design. He started his Graphic design practice in the mid-80s, before the advent of computer desktop publishing. He is the founder and principal designer of ICD - one of the best design studios in India. He runs the studio along with his partner Lisa Rath. Since its inception, the studio has created a huge body of work, across many design disciplines that...

Raj Dongre is a painter from Nagpur, Maharashtra. He primarily practices of Truck art, sign and wall painting. He is also associated with All India Permit, a platform created by Farid Bawa with a mission of reviving, preserving and promoting the vibrant art form of Truck painting. On this episode, Raj talks about his journey as a painter. He talks about the pre-printing era of film poster painting. He shares some interesting insights into his profession. We also talk about the changing...