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Author: Ishan Khosla

Ishan Khosla (b. Kochi, 1976) is a visual artist and designer with an MFA in Design from the School of Visual Arts, New York. After studying and working in the US for more than a decade, Ishan moved to India in 2008, to start Ishan Khosla Design — a multi-disciplinary company that examines and experiments with various aspects of contemporary Indian culture through the language of design. Ishan’s work straddles the worlds of art and design, of tradition and technology, of nostalgia and the future and his experience of having stayed both outside and within India. Exhibitions include, Bold — Graphic Design from India at London Design Festival at the Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, London; Crossing Visions V: The Ecology of Creation, at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan; Fracture: New Directions on Contemporary Textiles at the Devi Art Foundation; Porosity Kabari at Nishi Gallery, Canberra Australia and Studio X, Mumbai; Make it New Again, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad; Common Ground at Gallery OED, Kochi and Edge Condition, Spitalfields Gallery, London. Ishan's work is part of the permanent collection at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and has been published in various books including the V&A’s India Contemporary Design: Fashion, Graphics, Interiors. He was invited by The Japan Foundation to visit Japan as part of the Asian Curator’s Program; he visited the Netherlands on invitation from Dutch DFA and Government of Netherlands to create partnerships in design and culture between the two countries. Ishan helped organise, brand and facilitate, Sangam: the Australia India Design Platform. He also participated in talks and exhibitions at various venues in both India and Australia, including the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and RMIT University in Melbourne. He was a part of two separate workshops, discussions and exhibitions at Studio X, Mumbai — Here, There, Everywhere (with Droog Lab) and — Porosity Kabari with two other Australian designers. Ishan was a speaker at Typo Berlin in May 2017. Previously, he has spoken at Semi-Permanent (New Zealand), the Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennale (South Korea), Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, France; Japan Foundation (Japan); Aalto University (Finland); Konstfack University (Sweden); RMIT University (Australia) the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) among other places. He is a finalist of the Young Creative Entrepreneur Award by the British Council and has won the D&AD Kyoorius Design Yatra blue elephant for Best Book Design in 2016. Ishan has taught design and photography at various colleges such as the National Institute of Design (NID), University of Edinburgh, Design Akademie Berlin, MIT Pune, Adianta, Design Village, Indian Institute of Art and Design (IIAD), Indian Institute of Craft and Design (IICD), United World Institute of Design (UID) and Adianta.

Typecraft: Handcrafted Beauty in a Functional Typeface

Kutch Logo Brand Identity
June 14, 2018 0

The Ecology of Creation

July 31, 2017 1

Design Pataka, the Explosion of Design in India: 2010–16

February 13, 2017 1

Understanding One’s Culture Through Another: Japan

May 23, 2014 0

Delhi 2050: The Future of the Capital of India

September 1, 2013 4

Wayfinding?? in India

September 1, 2013 0

Design Education in India: Master’s Thesis

February 11, 2012 10

Improvisation is the Future of Design: How Improvisation via the Informal Economy might Impact the way we Design

January 7, 2012 4

Typecraft: Creating an Indian Typographic Identity

October 16, 2011 4

When a Museum is a mere Archive

October 15, 2011 4

What’s in a name?

August 28, 2011 7

Hawkers of Liberty

August 27, 2011 2

Design and the Future of the City: Small Ideas, Big Impact (Delhi Dialogue 4)

August 8, 2011 3

Sangam: the Confluence of Craft and Design

August 6, 2011 22

The Role of Artisans and Designers

August 4, 2011 6

Cricket, the Heartbeat of a Nation

April 1, 2011 0

Indo-Dutch Juxtaposed Graphics

March 9, 2011 1

In the Spirit of Women’s Day…

March 8, 2011 0

A Partnership of Contrasts: Why the Dutch can be so important for India and vice-versa

February 24, 2011 0

20 under 35: A Design Exhibition at the Alliance Francaise

February 19, 2011 4

What is Indian Design?

February 18, 2011 3

Fake Graphics

February 17, 2011 1

Design Education in India — an interview by Creative Gaga

February 11, 2011 3

On Becoming a Designer

December 10, 2010 4

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