Amaltas Khan studied Mechanical Engineering, and Product Design from IIITDM Jabalpur with a student exchange project at IAD, TU Darmstadt. He received his doctorate from Design Discipline, IIITDM Jabalpur where his research contributions were focused on design interventions to reduce food packaging discards along with Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. After consulting a few design organizations and co-founding Wollof Design Studio, he joined NID Andhra Pradesh in 2017 contributing as a faculty and is presently the coordinator for Industrial Design Discipline.
Arnab Senapati is a faculty in Textile and Apparel Design Discipline. He graduated with Textile Design at Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan before coming to NID as a Postgraduate student. After PGDP in Textile Design from NID, Ahmedabad, in 2009, he worked for almost 5 years as a Textile Researcher relevant to states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Manipur for Documenting the Textile Traditions of North Eastern States of India: A Composite Design Study of Fibres, Fabrics, Looms and Tools, Users and Cultural Indicators, Project of IGNCA, New Delhi undertaken by Outreach Programmes at NID, Ahmedabad. At the institute, he teaches courses like Traditional Indian Textiles, Craft Research and Documentation, Fabric Construction, Basic Sewing Techniques and Natural Dyeing also guiding Diploma Projects.
Archana is a faculty in Industrial Design Discipline and foundation. Currently she’s taking courses like Geometric Construction, Analytical Drawing, Human factors in Design in Foundation, and Industrial Design. She holds her graduation degree in Architecture from Nagpur University (2006 -11). During her Architectural practice in IF Studio, New Delhi, she was involved in exhibition designs and Architecture design projects. She pursued Industrial Design from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi (2011-13). She has taught in the School of Architecture, Bhopal before joining NID, AP.
Kurma Nadham has joined the institute as Faculty at NID, AP in 2019 and he was recently appointed as Coordinator of Communication Design. He obtained his Post- graduation in Printmaking from the Faculty of fine arts, M.S.University of Baroda in 2009, and in 2007 Graduation with a Gold medal from the Department of Fine Arts, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. He has been participating in the Art Exhibitions since 2009. He was part of various National & international art Exhibitions and Art camps. Some group exhibitions are India Inked at SNAP in Edmonton in Canada, Milwaukee Wisconsin, the USA, and Harry wood Art Gallery, Arizona State University.
Zilvinas has served in multiple positions during his professional career ranging from Interactive Interface Designer to Chief Artist, and as Technical Director for a number of start-ups as well as internationally renowned companies such as Walt Disney Studios, Oddworld Inhabitants, Metrolight Studios, Artist’s Inc. He has worked on a number of animated feature films, games, publications, and television projects including Treasure Planet and Chicken Little.
Gianmarco Serra has been in the film business since 1998, He has directed documentaries for Italian channel Rai 3, Italian TV channel that focuses on culture and education. He has also worked as an independent producer for National and International Institutions directing several documentaries based on social themes.
Debkumar Mitra is a comics curator, editor, reviewer, who is also a Sci-tech columnist and takes workshops on the narrative structures of Graphic tales. Debkumar is a math major who regularly dabbles in mathematics. He edited the first Longform annual, an anthology of graphic narratives published by HarperCollins India in 2018.
Kuntal De is a graduate of Product Design from NID. Kuntal De has worked primarily in the development sectors. For the last few years, he has been working with areas like financial literacy for women, cleaning up water bodies and collection of plastic pollutants and topics like gender issues.
Currently director at National Institute of Design, Johrat, V Ravishankar acquired a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1985 from University College of Engineering, Osmania University, and PG diploma in Product Design from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad in 1986. He has worked as a designer, both independently and in roles in the industry in diverse sectors such as Product, Furniture, Lifestyle, IT, Advertising, Retail, Indian Crafts and the Government sector.
Trisha Banerjee did her masters in Molecular Biology from the Presidency college, Kolkata. She was a Senior research biologist in TCG Lifesciences. 5 years into the job, she took a break to find out what she wanted to do from what she was already doing. She joined Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute [SRFTI] to learn Animation Cinema. This unique course opened a new world that was completely unknown to her. Her love for stories finds new ways to flourish. She learned new techniques to make films and started telling stories as projects of SRFTI. Her first short animated film was ‘knachamithe’ [Unaged]. When she was asked to go for a documentary in animation, she chose the 300 years old art of making Baluchari saree, as she was married to a man of the village Baluchar, and she came to know it’s glorious yet unsung history from before. Mystically, she gifted her mother a Baluchari saree from her first salary years ago, to celebrate this Trisha asked her mother to do the voice-over for this film.
Rudranil is based in West Bengal, India, renowned for its rich literary and cultural heritage. He studied textile design at the Government College of Art and Craft in Calcutta and the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad where he developed a particular interest in design grammar and the technique of ‘wrapping’. A wrapped surface is created using threads, and is yet woven, but displays infinite scope for creating patterns, textures and structure. Rudranil works in the textiles manufacturing industry and also the crafts sector on government projects with co-operatives in villages of eastern India. He was awarded a Charles Wallace scholarship in 2012 for a visiting research fellowship to work with Briony Thomas in the Design Science Group at the University of Leeds.
