Category Archives: Design in India

Indian Design History, a provocation

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Martha Scotford

At a design history conference in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2004, I presented a paper discussing some problems of design history in post-colonial cultures. You can see the images shown in this rather large powerpoint.

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Indian Design Education review

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Martha Scotford

Following my Fulbright to India in 2001, teaching at four different Indian design schools: National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, IIT Guwahati (Assam), Srishti Institute of Art and Technology (Bangalore), I wrote a comparative article … Continue reading →

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Typography in Indian Languages

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Martha Scotford

Following my four months teaching as a Fulbright lecturer at four institutions in India, I wrote an article about the typography project I had adapted for the four design programs. The article was published in Visible Language, vol. 37, no. … Continue reading →

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