PODCAST - DESIGNED THIS WAY
Design Education | Type Design | Graphic Design
Mahendra Patel retired as a senior faculty from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, in 2003. He has taught at NID for 39 years. Presently, he is an adjunct faculty member at SID & MIT-ID, Pune. He has worked on type design development for numerous Indian Scripts. He has also created Map design and Signage system design for many Indian cities, states, exhibitions and other places of interest. On this episode we talk about the highlights of his life, how he discovered the discipline of graphic design at National Institute of Design, his long association with Adrian Frutiger and his experience as a design educator.