Girish Dalvi

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Girish Dalvi is an inter-disciplinary faculty of Design at the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), IIT Bombay. He teaches subjects in the area of Visual Design, Interaction Design and Design research.

His research interests in the domain of Visual design are: Devanagari Typography (History, Type design methodologies, Theoretical Modeling, Classification, and Type-Culture); within the field of Interaction design his research interests are: Culture sensitive Interactions, Input mechanisms for Indic scripts and Design for Behaviour Change. As a design researcher his work deals with applying Statistical and Mathematical modeling techniques for designers.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, a Master’s degree in Design and a Ph.D. from IIT Bombay. His doctoral research dealt with the theoretical modeling of Devanagari typefaces. As a type designer he has co-created several typefaces for Indian scripts, prominent amongst these is the open-sourced Mukta multi-script family, and Jaini.

Please feel free to get in touch with him by writing at girish.dalvi@iitb.ac.in