About the guest: 

Akhila Krishnan @akhila_krishnan_design Multidisciplinary Designer Projection design for live experience, VR, Moving Image, Fine Art, Graphic Narrative, Collaborative Practice and Education Akhila Krishnan is a multi disciplinary designer and director working across the fields of projection design for live experience, VR, moving image, fine art, graphic narrative, collaborative practice and education. She graduated from the Royal College of Art and the National Institute of Design. She was also an exchange student at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. She was recently awarded the Time N Eye Bursary and Alan James Bursary (in collaboration with Lambrego.) Over the course of her career she has received several other honours including the Inlaks Shivadasani Scholarship, Man Group Drawing Prize, IDPA Silver Prize and the EGIDE Scholarship. During her time at 59 Productions, she was a core part of the Tony and Olivier Award winning design team that worked on the musical An American in Paris. She was also Senior Designer on Grenfell: Our Home, Channel 4's first VR documentary, that won awards at the Sheffield and Raindance Film Festival. Akhila currently lives and works in London. She is represented by United Agents for her work in projection design and moving image. 

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Hosted by KVSS Varshini 

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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! 

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About the guest: 

Shwetal Bhatt @shwetalbhatt is a designer, artist, an educator and a mom to her 17 year old son. An alumnus of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda and IIMB (MPWE 2010). Shwetal runs an independent design studio, FoDoMe, which makes works in copper and glass since 2005. In the last two years the studio has become a lab for creative explorations of all kinds of materials, mediums and ideas. She has been involved in the field of training and education out of a desire to work with various aspects of creativity and to understand its impact on society. She started her journey into education through workshops for adults, children and by doing clay play modules in corporate training workshops. She later joined The Valley School, Krishnamurti Foundation India, Bangalore where she worked on the tangible and intangibles of art and creativity with children of all age groups as well as adults (predominantly in sculpture and carpentry). In 2013, inspired by a short conversation that she had with her students, Shwetal Bhatt, embarked on a journey of documenting the Navratri Festival of Baroda. The end result of which was the film, “Ramji Thakkar Bhimji Thakkar” a 74 min film in Gujarati and English with English subtitles. Shwetal took on the many roles of researcher, director, camera person, translator and promoter of the film as she was driven by her passion to bring this story to the people. 

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Tickets for Ramji Thakkar Bhimji Thakkar a film on Navratri streaming online on BookMyShow: https://in.bookmyshow.com/events/ramji-thakkar-bhimji-thakkar-film-navratri-oct-20/ET00145448   

Hosted by: Bidya Mishra 

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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! 

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About the guest: 

Kimya Gandhi, Type Designer Partner at the Mota Italic type foundry @motaitalic  Kimya Gandhi @kimyagandhi is a type designer from Mumbai (currently living in Berlin) with a passionate interest in Indic letterforms and specialises in creating new and innovative Devanagari fonts. Kimya is a partner at the type foundry, Mota Italic, with her husband Rob Keller where they design custom and retail typefaces. Mota Italic has catered to a range of clients like Škoda, Audi, Apple, Google, to name a few. Kimya believes there is great potential to reinvent the type design learning environment in India and encourage Indian script typography. 

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Hosted by: Srishti Mitra 

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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! 

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About the guest: 

Vivitsa Kohli @vivikoh.studio Ceramic Designer VIVIKOH, Pottery studio based in Chandigarh  “My name is Vivitsa Kohli and I started my independent ceramic studio right after I graduated in Ceramic Design from NID in the January of 2019. The studio is a community workspace as well as a multi-disciplinary teaching studio. Students take up long running projects applying the techniques they've learnt through basic courses and produce conceptual and functional ceramic. I use this space to explore ideas I want to introduce to the world. There's a lack of information and knowledge of this craft and material along with its endless possibilities in the Indian design community and culture. I'm trying to bridge the gap between pop culture and artisanal hand-made things, the joy of creating products you can use in your daily life. I'm an avid fan of my country and the culture I grew up with. I look for various ways to include things that have made an impression on me in my craft and showcase them in a way that hasn't been done before. Vintage bollywood posters are a primary graphic inspiration to me and my style. Therefore, collections like Bollywood Vases, Fabric Ceramic from Indian Textile, Indian Apparel Planters are all heavily influenced by national pride. 

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Poster by Poster by Jayasri Sridhar  

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Hosted by: Bidya Mishra 

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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! 

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About the guest: 

Ashish Sahoo @ashish6x7 Sculptor, Photographer, Filmmaker, Educator Delhi-based Ashish Sahoo studied sculpture at the Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Shantiniketan, India. After completing his B.F.A, he moved to New Delhi for his M.F.A (College Of Art) where he started experimenting with the materials, starting from video to sound. His work is mostly interactive as he likes his viewers to be the constant participants with it. Being held by a filmmaker family he was well acquainted with the moving and still images. He started his photographic career soon after his M.F.A where he rejected digital medium and started his research on the analogue medium. He researched one of the mid-18th-century processes of photography called wet plate collodion. He shoots only film and alternate processes. His recent projects have attempted a crossover between photography, art and collaboration, with a strong contextual reference to contemporary urban-narrative and the politics surrounding it. He has won one of India's most reputed photography grants Umrao Singh Shergill Photography Grant 2017-18 and jury's special mention for Alkazi Theatre Photography Grant 2019-20. He along with Iranian Artist- Zahra Yazdani runs a collective called The Maze Collective, which runs an online photographic game called BLINK. It won the first ever Black Box Project Grant from Experimenter Kolkata. 

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Poster by Yoshita Pinjala   

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Hosted by: Bidya Mishra 

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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! 

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About the guest: 

Vishnu M Nair is an Illustrator, Artist and Graphic Designer based out of New Delhi.He explores imagined worlds, metaphors, memories and stories through his illustrations. When he is not telling his own stories he helps brands, artists, authors and friends tell theirs. His work spans picture books, graphic novels, ads, editorials, spaces and paintings. He did his Bachelors in Fine Arts from College of Art, Delhi and his Masters in Design from NID, Ahmedabad and currently balances working as a senior designer at Codesign, a design consultancy in Gurugram and his personal practise of making pictures and stories. 

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Poster by Ajay Singh   

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Hosted by: Shriya Agarwal 

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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! 

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About the guest: 

Krishna is an animation filmmaker based in Indore. A graduate of NID, Ahmedabad and la Poudrière, France, he has directed multiple short films like "Chandran's Cafe", "For the love of God", Pdingpdoong", the latest among which, "Funny Fish" has won 12 awards and 96 nominations worldwide. Currently, Krishna Chandran is working on a feature length animated documentary. 

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Hosted by : @srishtimitra_ 

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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! 

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About the guest: 

He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Graphic Design and is the founder of the strategic design studio, Now Form @nowform Before starting Now Form, Vikramaditya worked in the digital team under Maya Kopytman at C&G Partners, NYC, creating digital interactions for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture (inaugurated by Barack Obama) and the Museum of the Bible. During his time at C&G Partners, he also worked on publications for Rockefeller University, featured in GDUSA, Creative Boom, and Design Week, UK.  In 2020, Vikramaditya showcased his work at the Alliance Francaise, 10th Annual Design x Design, 20 under 35 show. His art series, @aurora_dotcom , has been covered by Feltzine, Platform Magazine and ‪Homegrown.in‬. The series was exhibited at the India Art Fair in 2020. 

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Check their website: https://www.nowform.co/  

Hosted by @mis.bidya : Bidya Mishra 

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Poster by @stellart._: Soniya Stella 

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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! 

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About the guest: 

Anu Tandon Vieira Textile Designer Founder of The Retyrement Plan, Mumbai @theretyrementplan Anu Tandon Vieira is a graduate in Sculpture, with a Post Graduate degree in Textiles from National Institute of Design (NID). She is passionate about designing sustainable,comfortable and exquisitely hand-crafted furniture by repurposing material waste from urban jungles. The Retyrement Plan (Mumbai,India) from Vieira is a range of occasional furniture pieces using discarded tyres of all shapes and sizes, cane and bamboo, woven over with ropes twisted out of tailoring waste and in shimmering plastic wrapper waste. “Having worked on a range of market driven projects for over 25 years, as a designer, I started feeling the need to, in some way, use my experience and expertise in making a difference, to my environment and this eventually led to the conception of The Retyrement Plan” "I believe that a good design can be sustainable and relevant, only if the person translating it can relate to it and contribute to it's improvisation and innovation. I would, in my own small way, want to be the change I want to see." 

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About the host: 

Priyanka Baliyan @pribaliyan Textile Designer A Textile Design graduate from National Institute of Design (NID), Priyanka was the curator at the textile gallery at The House of MG, Ahmedabad. She strives to encourage conversation on sustainability in design and the application of traditional knowledge in the current context. She has been working in the handcraft sector since 2010 and has traveled over India for field research. Priyanka’s work can be best described as multi-disciplinary and collaborative. She uses her design process in fields such as space design, publication design, culture research, design education, brand identity, development and documentation with a focus on craft communities. 

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Poster by @rumillustrate: https://www.instagram.com/rumillustrate/  

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! 

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About the guest: 

For nearly two decades, Suresh has pioneered the craft of animation on Indian screens. After graduating from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad in 1997, Suresh established Famous House of Animation, where he created some unforgettable animated ads, shorts, music videos with many firsts. In 2009, he founded Studio Eeksaurus in partnership with Nilima Eriyat. Suresh’s portfolio, which includes over 400 films, has won him over 100 national and international awards, including the prestigious Annecy festival Cristal for his film Fateline in 2015, a first for India. His in-house projects Tokri and Fisherwoman and Tuk-Tuk have both won the National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Animation Film. Suresh regularly attends seminars and conferences to share his greater vision for the Indian animation film industry. 

Check their YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/studioeeksaurus 

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Hosted by @surya.haridasan 

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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! 

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