Baatein NID

About the guest: 

Nitesh Mohanty @nimo_obscura is a visual artist who works at the fluid intersection of arts, culture, media, communication and self-reflection. His theoretical interests are also wide, often inquiring about the roots and fundamentals of art history, storytelling, and philosophy. He is currently heading the Crafting Creative Communication Programme at MICA where he shares the relationship between art, design, photography & cinema through a course called ‘Ways of Seeing’. He's just self-published his first photo book, titled Nowhere. 

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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: 

Ayush Kasliwal @ayushkasliwal Furniture Designer Founder of AKFD Studio Ayush Kasliwal Design Private Ltd. or AKDPL is the brainchild of Ayush Kasliwal, a furniture design graduate from National Institute of Design. His studio is committed to development of ideas using local crafts that have evolved over centuries. His work represents a fusion of unique creativity and uncompromising integrity rare to find in the highly competitive world market. Strategically based in Jaipur the company has a large variety of crafts to play with be it beaten brass, stone carving or even mirror work. Ayush’s products reflect a detailed understanding of processes and materials simultaneously paying homage to the tradition of crafts. He works with craftspeople and artisans mainly from Rajasthan.  In order to revive ancient crafts and provide consistent livelihood to them, he has developed ideas to produce relevant objects that are utilitarian, beautiful and fun. 

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About the host: 

Vritima Wadhwa @project810  Furniture Designer Founder and Creative Head of Project 810 Project 810 is a Delhi based design studio founded by Vritima Wadhwa in 2013. A graduate in Furniture and Interior Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, Vritima has worked extensively in the field of space design. She has been recognized for her work across several platforms, and has taught at NID, Ahmedabad, as a visiting faculty. Project 810 follows a strong process-driven approach of research, exploration and iteration to bring human/experience-centred designs to life. 

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Poster by Radhika Dhumal @mad_lad_rad 

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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: 

Vritima Wadhwa @vritima is a leading furniture and industrial designer working relentlessly in the field of architecture, interior design, furniture and more. Project 810 is a Delhi based design studio founded by Vritima Wadhwa in 2013. A graduate in Furniture and Interior Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, Vritima has worked extensively in the field of space design. She has been recognized for her work across several platforms, and frequently teaches at NID, Ahmedabad, as a visiting faculty. Project 810 follows a strong process-driven approach of research, exploration and iteration to bring human/experience-centred designs to life. 

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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 host: 

Gaurav Juyal @boktya  Education Designer Founding-faculty, Institute of Design (JKLU)  Former host of Disney Channel's Art Attack  Gaurav Juyal is an education designer with focus on learning through senses. He specialises in Animation Film Design and was trained at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.  A Tedx speaker, he is popularly known for his role as the host of Disney channel's television series Art Attack.  He has been working around the domain of education and learning for over 10 years and has personally catered to more than 10,000 students in person and 3000 teachers online post-lockdown. He loves knowledge-material play and aims at sharing his rich experience in design and expressive arts to children, youth and adults to mutually learn and evolve.  

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About the guest: 

Vaibhav Kumaresh @vaibhavstudios  Founder and Director at Vaibhav Studios, Mumbai  Vaibhav Kumaresh is an animation film maker and is currently Founder, Director at Vaibhav Studios, Mumbai. Founded in 2003, the studio has created some of India’s favourite animated content in the field of TV commercials and channel promos: the Amaron Battery ad campaign, Chulbuli for Clinic Plus, Buladi’s AIDS awareness campaign for the West Bengal government, the Vodafone Zumis, Simpoo the angry sardaar math teacher on Channel [V] and Lamput the globally acclaimed, Emmy nominated micro short series for Cartoon Network to name a few. The studio is currently working on its maiden feature film titled Return of the Jungle.  A Fine Arts graduate, Vaibhav studied animation film making at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. He is an active committee member of The Animation Society of India (TASI) and is currently the Honorary Secretary of the society. Vaibhav also teaches animation and is a visiting faculty at various animation and design schools across India. 

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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: 

Ishan Khosla is a Delhi-based visual artist, designer and researcher with an MFA in Design from the School of Visual Arts, New York. He is a partner at Ishan Khosla Design LLP and The Typecraft Initiative. Having returned to India after living in the United States for over a decade, Ishan is interested in exploring various facets of the contemporary Indian milieu through design. Whether it is to make a digital typeface from an ancient tribal art or an LED light for a primordial water ewer - he is interested in creating new juxtapositions in terms of material, time, function and culture. He is passionate about the value hand made crafts offer us both from a sustainability and socio-cultural context and his initiatives, such as The Typecraft Initiative explore the crossover between craft, design and tech by making digital typefaces from Indian crafts. Typecraft has caught the imagination of organisations world-wide. Ishan has spoken about the initiative at Typo Berlin and exhibited it at Atelier Muji Ginza in Tokyo, at the London Design Festival and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. 

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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: 

An Exhibition Design graduate from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, Wasim Khan is a Director at Lemon Design - 20-year-old premier cross-disciplinary design studio, with over 120 global clients. Wasim passionately seeks connections between design, business, brands, services, technology, culture, society and people. 

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About the host: 

Vivek is the founding & creative director of The Designship, a design & artistic development consulting firm specialising in experiential spatial design. As a design professional and an academic, Vivek constantly seeks a pedagogic relationship in between the two. Vivek aims at taking his inquiries further as a dialogue through tools of scenographic expression. 

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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! 

Follow @baatein.nid: https://www.instagram.com/baatein.nid/

About the guest: 

Rahul Mishra  is an Indian fashion designer based in Delhi. He won the International Woolmark Prize in 2014 at Milan Fashion Week, becoming the first Indian designer to win the award. The winning collection was sold in stores around the world. In 2008, he was awarded the MTV Youth Icon of the Year by MTV India. The young man who moved out of a UP village and journeyed to Milan works mainly with craft communities in the villages of Gujarat, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh. Mishra’s studio has catalysed many experiments with Indian handlooms, weaving silk with cotton, wool with silk, to create new textures and weaves. “Design is the only place where science and art come together and that’s what I love the most,” he says. Follow @rahulmishra: https://www.instagram.com/rahulmishra_7/?hl=en 

Website: https://www.rahulmishra.in  

About the Host:  

Fashion designer Anuj Sharma works mainly in areas of craft development and sustainability. Sharma’s other areas include teaching fashion and understanding human behaviour with the help of fashion. He has previously shown collection in Japan, UK, Sweden, and Bangladesh. He is also a regular at Lakme fashion week in Mumbai.  Anuj Sharma has come up with a unique method to construct clothes without any machine, tools or stitches technique. It is titled Button Masala. The method has led to the Button Masala collection, which has been shown internationally for e.g. as part of the travelling exhibition Connecting Concepts by Dutch design DFA, and part of the exhibition Bliss at the Taiwan design expo 2011. He has taught the technique of Button Masala to over 20000 people across the world. 

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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!

Follow @baatein.nid: https://www.instagram.com/baatein.nid/

About the guest: 

Debbie Millman is an American writer, educator, artist, curator, and designer who is best known as the host of the podcast Design Matters. She has authored six books and is the President Emeritus of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and chair and co-founder of the Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She was previously the editorial and creative director of Print magazine. Follow @debbiemillman: https://www.instagram.com/debbiemillman/ 

Hosted by: Ananya Khaitan  

About the host: 

Ananya Khaitan is a graphic designer and writer. His work has been recognized by the likes of D&AD, Art Directors Club, Design Indaba, Forbes India 30 Under 30, CII, and Kyoorius. 

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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:

Upamanyu is an animation filmmaker who works on short films, feature film previsualization, title sequences and music video. He takes a stab at comics and illustration on occasion. He is a partner at @ghostanimation and co-director of @wadefilm.  

About Ghost Animation: 

Ghost Animation is a collective of animators, artists and filmmakers from all over India based in Kolkata, brought together by their love of films and creation. In their cosy Kolkata studio, they've built a space where people with wildly different skillsets come together and inspire each other to do better. Some amazing artists from all over the country have enriched this space with their collaborations. They've started work on an animated series, and a feature length animated project alongside their First Flight Animation Tour - a screening of four original animated films across various cities in the country. 

Check out their website : https://ghostanimation.in/

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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! 

Follow @baatein.nid: https://www.instagram.com/baatein.nid/

About the guest: 

Shweta Ratanpura is the first-ever Indian female to win a medal at WorldSkills event in Russia’s Kazan. A graphic design student from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad she has made the entire nation rejoice with the victory. She is an avid traveller and has represented India in various platforms. Apart from international recognition, she has bagged many national and local level awards in the same field. It is her dedication and determination that at such a young age she has achieved a lot, making her story worth sharing. 

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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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