We are very excited to present to you @jayeshsachdev
Jayesh Sachdev is a multi-hyphenated creator. An artist, designer, creative entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, Design Educator. Jayesh is also the founder of the Multi-Award Winning label Quirk Box, and Branding Agency Quirk Box Design Studio( @thequirkbox ) . Jayesh holds the National Record for having painted India’s largest concept artwork and continues to practice as an internationally exhibited artist.
His Wearable Art label Quirk Box has been awarded the Vogue India Fashion Fund Award (RU) and Grazia India Young Fashion Award while his Design Agency has won ‘India’s Best Design Award' in 2020, 2021 and 2022, 2023.
As an artist, his works are experimental, whimsical and thought-provoking and larger than life. He has been regularly featured across media (Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Grazia, Elle, Verve, India Today) and his art-based fashion label has been worn by a host of A-Lister celebrities.
Jayesh graduated in Visual Communication at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore.

Anant Ahuja is a multi-faceted professional who is constantly making a mark in various creative and entrepreneurial domains. His role as the Managing Partner at The Irregulars Alliance involves ensuring tangible growth in the business, while making creative decisions to always evolve and get better. As a Cultural Producer he has contributed to the
independent art and design scene through the organization of India’s first Anti Art-Fair, The Irregulars Art Fair, publishing The Irregular Times, India’s first art and design newspaper, and other such cultural experiences For his work in the field of cultural production, he was inducted into the Forbes Under 30, Asia List in 2020.
The Irregulars Studio boasts of an enviable client list and portfolio: from working as cultural consultants on the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023, to producing animations for Budweiser and Lenskart, Designing identities for Spotify official playlists to illustrate stickers for Meta and Snapchat He’s done it all!!!

Rushil Bhatnagar is a graphic designer and motion artist, currently building his multi-disciplinary independent practice based out of India. He graduated from MIT Institute of Design in 2018. He has always been drawn to different mediums of design via story-telling and has worked for clients including Prateek Kuhad, Burma Burma India, Nucleya, Netflix, Ritviz, and Tinder. He believes that stories allow us to draw parallels to where dreams can bloom and take any shape that we like - a thought often reflected in his personal explorative work that tinkers around a dream-only utopian future.  Follow Rushil Bhatnagar @rushilbhatnagar: https://www.instagram.com/rushilbhatnagar/ Hosted by Vedant Gugale @gooooogle: https://www.instagram.com/_gooooogle_/ Presented by Baatein: Baatein, which translates to ‘a conversation’, is the National Institute of Design’s unique interactive platform to learn and share. From telling us about your experiences and passions to showcasing what you do, it can be anything you want it to be!   All links available: @https://linktr.ee/baatein.nid  Follow us on Instagram: @baatein.nid: https://www.instagram.com/baatein.nid/  Subscribe to our YouTube channel: @https://www.youtube.com/c/BaateinNID  Follow us on LinkedIn: @https://in.linkedin.com/company/baatein-nid 00:00 Introduction 01:08 What drew Rushil into design? 02:32 Was it easy to convince his parents? 03:58 How has college been for him? 06:41 About his college internships 08:10 Packaging design for Burma Burma 14:29 What does a Motion Designer do? 18:23 On working with Prateek Kuhad, Ritviz, and Nucleya 20:16 What is scene development and CG art? 23:06 Biggest examples of CGI in film today 24:00 The most memorable project for him 25:24 Most favourite and least favourite part of the process 26:50 Softwares he does 3D on 29:26 On starting learning 30:20 On daydreaming and making stories in your head 31:57 On his current projects 35:28 His inspiration 36:21 What does he do when he’s not designing? 37:57 His dream project 38:37 On his MIT days 39:20 Has he worked as a fulltime in-house graphic designer? 40:08 Beginner CG art/3D modelling softwares 41:11 Advice for the student community 42:25 On working with storytelling

Debjani Mukherjee is an animation filmmaker, author, researcher and educator. She explores different art styles and experiments with stop-motion animation and picture books as a narrative medium. She is the co-founder of BOL - The Language of Children, a not-for-profit organisation which engages community youth with art, contributing towards community filmmaking and empowering them to share their own stories through the medium of art.

In this episode of Baatein LIVE, we will talk about Debjani’s journey with filmmaking, co-founding BOL - The Language of Children, and her experimental work with animation.

Follow Debjani Mukherjee @debi_bol 

Works https://debjanibol.myportfolio.com/work

Hosted by Dharini Padh @dharini_padh

Films and Visuals from the Session

3:33 - Dream of the Carpet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLLrCtOvpVw

10:01- Limbo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNAQOtyPUzA

10:46 - Riding through the waves. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfjo14jlTUE

17:16 - Awakening of the Goddess (Trailer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4byfjFPi-8Q

13:44 - Dotted Lines - Her book with Bhuri Bai Bhil

https://books.katha.org/product/dotted-lines/

Timestamps

1:03 - NID Journey (especially experimental animation)?

3:33 - Introduction to Bol (Non profit organization- community filmmaking) and travel stories

10:04 - Projects in Myanmar

11:00 - Experience and takeaways :Phd in Indigenous art pedagogy  (IIT Bombay)

14:11 - About animated documentaries.

15:38 - Working with communities and takeaways from it

17:19 - Inclination towards documentary animation

17:44 - Making medium choices and working with people from diverse backgrounds

Presented by Baatein: Baatein, which translates to ‘a conversation’, is the National Institute of Design’s unique interactive platform to learn and share. From telling us about your experiences and passions to showcasing what you do, it can be anything you want it to be!

All links available: @https://linktr.ee/baatein.nid

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Swati Shelar's design studio jumps the gap between design and education, keeping children at the center of every project. 

Having trained as a product designer at NID, she went on to work as a toy designer and primary school teacher before getting an MA in Education at Stanford University. Since then, she has worked in the world of Indian education and EdTech as a curriculum designer and educator, starting Jump Design India in 2020. Swati plays at being an author these days with a book in progress called 'Useful Notes on People' for children's social-emotional learning.

In this episode of Baatein LIVE, we will talk about Swati’s journey as a student at NID and Stanford, her interest in education, and challenges faced while founding Jump Design India.

Jump Design India: https://www.jumpdesignindia.in/

Follow Swati Shelar @cro.she.lar

Hosted by Vaishnavi Laddha @crazyearthlingg

Presented by Baatein: Baatein, which translates to ‘a conversation’, is the National Institute of Design’s unique interactive platform to learn and share. From telling us about your experiences and passions to showcasing what you do, it can be anything you want it to be!

All links available: @https://linktr.ee/baatein.nid

Follow us on Instagram: @baatein.nid: https://www.instagram.com/baatein.nid/

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: @https://www.youtube.com/c/BaateinNID

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Timestamps:

00:47 Swati’s journey into design and education

3:22 On founding Jump Design

4:26 How she got into design for children

7:48 Working with children as the primary stakeholder

8:59 On studying at Stanford

12:16 On using qualitative and quantitative work in her research

15:13 What is Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL)?

18:23 Changes in SEL in India

20:37 How different does SEL look like for instructors and learners?

22:42 Personalized learning in SEL?

24:45 Apart from personalized education, how else can SEL occur?

27:13 Education for creating an adaptive human being vs. for achievement

30:18 Curriculum Design

32:56 On her book ‘Useful Notes on People’

34:39 How can we convince our parents that play is important?

37:06 How can we fill the gap between self learning and academic learning?

39:10 Tips for designers who want to go on an alternative path?

41:08 How to learn and work in different contexts?

44:53 How does Jump interact with other studios?

Sonata Dev is a transdisciplinary designer who seeks to create meaningful experiences that question normative design practices through speculative and discursive design. Her work consists of novel interactions and interfaces connecting humans and technology based on playful research, with a pinch of humour and a twinge of uncanny. She currently works as a UX designer that conceptualises and builds products for startups. Independently, she teaches speculative design as modules and workshops at various institutions.

In this episode of Baatein LIVE, we talked about Sonata’s journey with new media design, speculative design in the business sector, UI/UX design, and the impact of television on her creative process.

Follow Sonata Dev @sonatadev: https://www.instagram.com/sonatadev/

Hosted by Rahi De Roy @rahideroy: https://www.instagram.com/rahideroy/

Presented by Baatein: Baatein, which translates to ‘a conversation’, is the National Institute of Design’s unique interactive platform to learn and share. From telling us about your experiences and passions to showcasing what you do, it can be anything you want it to be!

All links available: @https://linktr.ee/baatein.nid

Follow us on Instagram: @baatein.nid: https://www.instagram.com/baatein.nid/

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Ankon Mitra is a trained architect and a sculptor by practise. He is a TEDx speaker and a warrior for 'making connections across disciplines' with his brainchild - ‘Oritecture - Origami + Architecture’. Recipient of the All-India Gold Medal for Sculpture from the Prafulla Dahanukar Foundation in 2018 and the Lexus Design Award for Craft Design in 2020, his work has been exhibited in numerous countries. He is a member of the Indian Institute of Architects, the British Origami Society, Origami USA, and the Sculpture Network in Europe. His work was showcased at the Arte Laguna in Venice and the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands in 2021. His sculptures and installations are part of public developments and private collections globally.    In this episode of Baatein LIVE, we talked about Ankon’s creative process, his international experience, origami for beginners, and material explorations.

Tarun Lak is an Indian-American Animator and Illustrator. Born in Miami, FL and brought up in Chennai, India, he attended Ringling College of Art & Design to study Computer Animation. He has since worked as a character animator on animated commercials and feature films including Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Onward, Soul and Luca. He has also recently illustrated his first picture book, The Moon from Dehradun, out in 2022. Tarun currently works at Pixar and enjoys continuing to make art in his spare time.

In this episode of Baatein LIVE, we talked about Tarun’s creative journey, his experience working in Sony and Pixar, illustrating for books, his influences, career struggles, and all things animation.

Follow Tarun Lak @tarunlak

Hosted by Riya Waykar @riyaontheoffbeat

Presented by Baatein: Baatein, which translates to ‘a conversation’, is the National Institute of Design’s unique interactive platform to learn and share. From telling us about your experiences and passions to showcasing what you do, it can be anything you want it to be!

All links available: @https://linktr.ee/baatein.nid

Follow us on Instagram: @baatein.nid

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Samadrita Ghosh is a freelance illustrator, visual development artist and 2D animator. She graduated in 2020 with a Bachelors in Design (B.Des) from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, and goes by the alias Tikklil online. She loves visual narratives in all forms and is always looking for the next story to tell.

In this episode of Baatein LIVE, we talked about optimizing design education, developing your own art style, keeping up with design trends, the dos and don'ts of freelancing, and leading a double life as a BTS fanartist.

Follow Samadrita Ghosh @tikklil

Hosted by Sanika Karandikar @sanika._.k

Presented by Baatein: Baatein, which translates to ‘a conversation’, is the National Institute of Design’s unique interactive platform to learn and share. From telling us about your experiences and passions to showcasing what you do, it can be anything you want it to be!

All links available: @https://linktr.ee/baatein.nid

Follow us on Instagram: @baatein.nid

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: @https://www.youtube.com/c/BaateinNID

Follow us on LinkedIn: @https://in.linkedin.com/company/baatein-nid

TimeStamps: 

00:00 Introduction 

00:35 Key takeaways from Design School 

05:10 Naming of Tikklil 

05:43 Finding and developing your own style 

07:44 What is visual development? 

09:43 Why freelancing? 

11:45 Dealing with conflicts with clients 

13:58 Tips for freelancers 

18:19 Illustration Process 

20:48 What is Anime? 

22:28 Favourite Animation Project 

24:45 Pros and cons of working solo and in a team 

27:27 Importance of keeping up with trends 

29:48 Challenges as a Visual Development Artist 

32:02 Dealing with Art Block 

34:28 Journey as a fan artist 

36:10 Choosing Career Path  

38:58 Others 

40:36 Closing

Ayaz Basrai is a co-founder of The Busride Design Studio, a leading architecture and interior design firm in India. He set up The Busride Design Studio with his architect brother Zameer, as an independent design studio dabbling in the design and creation of built environments. With wide-ranging interests in illustration, immersive media, design and research, Ayaz is constantly dabbling in the ever-expanding latitude of design expression. Their projects are in the domains of hospitality, entertainment, immersive media, film and production, retail, exhibitions, installations, institutional and architectural environments. 

In this episode of Baatein LIVE, we spoke about the process of entrepreneurship and its various quirks and mishaps, owning the Guinness World Record for the largest shopping cart, redesigning the Prithvi Theater, working with your family, speculative fiction, and virtual spaces and their commodification.

Follow Busride Studio @thebusride

Hosted by Shubham Modgi @smod_g

Presented by Baatein: Baatein, which translates to ‘a conversation’, is the National Institute of Design’s unique interactive platform to learn and share. From telling us about your experiences and passions to showcasing what you do, it can be anything you want it to be!

All links available: @https://linktr.ee/baatein.nid

Follow us on Instagram: @baatein.nid: https://www.instagram.com/baatein.nid/

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