EP 116 . 20 Mar 19
World of Indian graphic design
With Pavithra Dikshit
In the episode
- You say your exploration in design is within the Indian context. What do you mean by that? What is Indianness when it comes to graphic design?
- How big and wide is the canvas concerning Indian Graphic Design?
- Can graphic design be tactile in nature? What is the role of paper when it comes to graphic design? How critical is that element? Since I am always exposed to digital graphic design?
- In some of your articles online, you have mentioned you being super disciplined and a lover of side projects. What can be different ways for a graphic designer to explore side projects?
- So there is a connection between your work, life, and work-life? How does your day job work in this sense?
- How do you choose what you should work on? Especially with side projects. Does everybody have so many ideas? You seem to have built a few composite projects, why is that? Is that a style?
- A lot of your recent work involves words and typography. Could you talk about it? Also, you’re reading and sharing a lot more of the books. Have you always been a reader? Is that important for a graphic designer in today’s world?
About Pavithra Dikshit
Pavithra Dikshit is a typographer, Graphic designer and presently working in Landor, Mumbai. She is also part of Kadak, a collective of South Asian women who work with graphic storytelling of different kinds.
