Kimya Gandhi is a type designer from Mumbai with a passionate interest in Indic type design. She is an alumnus of National institute of Fashion Technology and Industrial Design Centre, IIT Mumbai. She got her professional start interning at Linotype in 2010. Over the next few years she freelanced for several type foundries catering to their multi-script requirements. In 2015, she became a partner at Mota Italic and now focuses on Indic and Latin designs for retail and custom corporate projects. On this episode, we talk about Kimya’s journey as a designer and about some of her key type design projects. She also talks about the unique challenges of designing fonts for Indic scripts and about business aspects of the type design industry.
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Kimya Gandhi - kimyagandhi.wordpress.com Motaitalic type foundry - www.motaitalic.com Madh Island - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madh_Island NIFT - nift.ac.in Fashion Communication - www.nift.ac.in/bdesfc NID - www.nid.edu Lettering - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettering IDC, IIT Mumbai - www.idc.iitb.ac.in White Crow Design - whitecrow.in Type Design at Univ. of Reading - typefacedesign.net Type Design at KABK, Netherlands - www.kabk.nl/en/programmes/master/type-and-media CDAC - cdac.in Fontographer - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontographer Prof. Kirti Trivedi - www.idc.iitb.ac.in/kirti/index.html Kohei Sugiura - www.academia.edu/28689470/Kohei_Sugiura_Graphic_Design_Methodology_and_philosophy Gurmukhi Script - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurmukhi Mahendra Patel - designedthisway.com Linotype - www.linotype.com Monotype - www.monotype.com Indian Type Foundry - www.indiantypefoundry.com Satya Rajpurohit - www.indiantypefoundry.com/about Devanagri - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari DIN Next - www.linotype.com/517415/din-next-family.html Jubilee - www.linotype.com/317196/jubilee-family.html Akira Kobayashi - www.monotype.com/studio/akira-kobayashi Type design intensive course - http://typefacedesign.net/courses/tdi/ Cleveland Museum of Art - www.clevelandart.org Gerry Leonidas - leonidas.net Fiona Ross - www.reading.ac.uk/typography/about/Staff_list/f-g-e-ross.aspx Indic Scripts - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmic_scripts Dr Vaibhav Singh - www.reading.ac.uk/typography/about/Staff_list/v-singh2.aspx Rob Keller - www.motaitalic.com/info/about/ Sharad Typeface Download. - setuadvertising.com/sharad76/ SETU Advertising - setuadvertising.com Conjunct consonant - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunct_consonant Maku Typeface - www.motaitalic.com/product/maku/ Dingbats - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbat Glyphs App - glyphsapp.com Robofont - robofont.com Chikki Typeface - www.motaitalic.com/product/chikki/ Chikki, the food - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikki Boaty, McBoatface - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface Shirorekha - idc.iitb.ac.in/resources/dt-jan-2009/Anatomy%20of%20Devanagari.pdf Physics Envy - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_envy Link to my upcoming Gurumukhi Type Inspiration (Mentioned in the podcast) - www.instagram.com/p/BrzbZT3Hxqr/ Golden Temple - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Temple Type Design Resources from Motaitalic - www.motaitalic.com/info/type-design-resources/ David Jonathan Ross - djr.com Inga Plönnigs - www.ingaploennigs.com OTF - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType TTF - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType WOFF - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Open_Font_Format Futurefonts - www.futurefonts.xyz EULA - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement Apache License - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_License Danfo Std by Da Design - dadesign.studio/work/danfo-std