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Kirti Trivedi
professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay / India
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Kirti Trivedi is a professor at the Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Born in 1948, Trivedi obtained a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Indore (1970), and a postgraduate diploma in Industrial Design from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1972). Later he studied at the Royal College of Art, London for his Master of Design degree in Industrial Design. In 1981, he worked in several design offices and design schools in Japan, including the office of Kohei Sugiura as a UNESCO Fellow. He has been teaching courses in Graphic Design, Typography, Design Methods and Design History at IDC since 1976, and has been engaged in a project documenting the design traditions of India since 1981. In 1984, he initiated and started India's first Master's degree programme in Visual Communication at IDC. In 1989, he was awarded the Fellowship of the International Design Foundation, Ulm, Germany to work on the project 'Cultural Identity in Design.' He has edited and published the proceedings of a Seminar on Indian Symbology and a portfolio of contemporary Indian calligraphy. Besides teaching, he is active as a design consultant in the areas of graphic design, book design, exhibition and museum design, and environmental graphics and signage design and product design. Some of his recent projects include design of a permanent exhibition on Mahatma Gandhi: 'My Life is My Message', at Sabarmati Ashram, Ahemdabad; design of permanent exhibitions on the life of Vinoba Bhave, and Jamnalal Bajaj at Gopuri, Wardha; and the design of CSIR India pavilion at Technology Showcase '95, Singapore; Setting up the R&D Centre and designing a range for chairs and other furniture for Amber System Seating, Mumbai; Singage for Vidhan Bhavan, Bhopal, and IUCAA, Pune. He is most active as a book designer, designing books for prestigious publishing houses in India like Marg Publications, Mapin Publishing, and Osian's. His book designs have won awards internationally, and have been selected to be exhibited in the prestigious International Biennale of Book Design, in Brno. He was invited to particpate and present his work in TypoJanchi 2002 (the International Biennale of Typography), in Seoul, South Korea. He has participated and presented papers in many international and national design conferences, including ICOGRADA '85 at Nice, France; ICOGRADA- UNESCO Seminar on 'Design for Development' at Nairobi, 1987; International Symposium on 'Symmetry of Structure' at Budapest, Hungary; International Symposium on Graphic Design at Brno, Czechoslavakia; Type 90, Oxford, England, ' Symmetry of Pattern' Symposium, Hiroshima, Japan; and as an invited expert at the Asian Round Table Conference on 'Asian Design', organised by the Asia Club, Tokyo, Japan. |
 Invitation card for the launch function of the book 'The Flamed-Mosaic: Indian Contemporary Painting' (1997) | ||
 Design of the book 'Flora and Fauna in Mughal Art', for Marg Publications, Mumbai (1999) |
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 Design of the book 'Art from Thailand', for Marg Publications, Mumbai (1999) |
 A view of the permanent exhibition 'My Life is My Message', on the life and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi; at Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad (2002) | ||
