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.
RELEVANT LINKS
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