Area of Practice
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Visual communication Designer and Educator
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Education
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B Arch., Rachna Sansad, Mumbai, India
M Des, IDC, IIT Bombay, India
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI, USA
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Work Experience
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- Independent Designer, MI, USA
- Philips India, Mumbai, India as a Graphic Designer
- Philip International, Eindhoven, The Netherlands as a Graphic Designer
- Independent Designer, Mumbai, India
- Co-founder and Design Director, Leubin Design, Bangalore, India
- Guest Faculty, Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore, India
- Faculty in Graphic Design Program at Durham College, Oshawa, ON, Canada
- Senior Faculty & Course Coordinator, Visual Communication, Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore, India
- Dean, School of Design Business and Technology, Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore, India
- Founder and Design Director, Kena Design, Bangalore, India
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Interest Areas
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exploring and documenting vernacular Indian typographic communication forms and history of visual communication design in India; mixed media prints; experiments in combining and integrating digital as well as traditional printmaking practices
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Current Practice at Srishti
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Symbolism in Visual Culture and its impact on Visual Communication, Historical milestones of Visual Communication in India across various mediums
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Creative Practice and Outreach
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- Member of Guerilla Studios, co-conducting workshops in collaborative mixed-media art at SIGGRAPH, USA
- Conducted Design Thinking workshop at Design Yatra for participating students
- Conducted a short course in Information Visualisation at Wellingkar’s Business School
- Conducted workshop in Visual Symbolism and Semiotics to students of Graphic Design and Film at Merz Academie, Stuttgart, Germany
- Invited to be the Jury Member to evaluate Typoday Poster competition entries from India and abroad
- Won an International Award (A’Design Awards) for the book design for IIM Calcutta
- Conducted “Typographic Selfies” Workshop. Typoday 2015 Conference. IDC, IIT Bombay
- Conducted “Type Collages” Workshop. Typoday 2013 Conference. IIT Guwahati
- Acted as Conference Chair, and planned Typoday 2016 Conference. Bangalore
- Conducted “DiversiType” Workshop. Typoday2017 Conference. Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Presented a Talk: “Future of Education”. Adobe Education Leaders Seminar 2017. Hua Hin, Thailand
- Conducted “Typographic Abstraction” Workshop. Typoday 2018 at JJ School of Art, Mumbai
- Conducted “Planar Typography” Workshop. Typoday 2019 Conference. IIT Bombay
- Invited to be ASPaC 2019 Jury Member, Tokyo, Japan
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