Ishan Khosla

• MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
• “Kutch Toran” with over 12 crafts and as many communities collected by Living and Learning Design Centre (LLDC), Kutch. 01/19
• Work submitted for Serendipity Arts Festival collected by the Munjal Foundation. 12/18.
• Tal patra chittra (palm leaf craft) for Sangam, collect by The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia. 11/11
• Typecraft Initiative (Chittara and Godna): collected by the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan. 02/17
• Pardesi: the turban untied, artwork, permanent collection, Devi Art Foundation.

Interests: Indian vernacular design, culture and objects, crafts, type design, jugaad and street furniture, behaviors in the informal economy

• In-Book Winner, Kyoorius Design Awards, Book
• Cover, Bhaunri, 09/19 and Branding Diversity:
• Kutch. 10/18
• Winner, D&AD Kyoorius Design Awards, Book
• Design for Eye Spy Indian Art. 09/16
• Winner, Book of the Year, Publishing Next. 09/16
• Included in Elle Decor’s Fresh Faces: Top 15 young
• Indian designers to know right now. 03/16
• NYPD Roadblock Bench, shortlisted by the
• Godrej Design Lab. 12/14
• The Asia-Pacific Design Awards (APD). 2013, 2014
• Finalist, for the D&AD Kyoorius Design Awards:
• Design for Identity (Oz Fest) and Design Craft
• (Chittara Typecraft). 08/13
• Part of the Indian delegation invited to Japan,
• for the three week long, Asian Curator’s
• Program [ Japan Foundation]. 9/13
• Invited to the Netherlands in 10/10 and 05/11,
• by the Dutch DFA to foster greater design
• collaborations between the two countries.
• Finalist, Young Creative Entrepreneur (YCE)
• Award. (British Council). 2010
• Graphis, New Talent Design Award Annual, New York. 06
• ::Output Foundation Design Award. Germany. 06
• Worldstudio Foundation Scholarship, New York.
• 07/04 Placed 2nd and 3rd, in 2003 and 2004, International Photo Awards

Books with my work:

• Bi–scriptual, Multi-script typography. 2018
• Year Book of Type 3. 2018
• Tokyo Type Director’s Club Annual. Vol 26. 2015
• India: Contemporary Design (V&A), London. 2014
• Typographic Universe by Steve Heller/Gail Anderson. 2014
• Found Type, by Steve Heller/Gail Anderson. 2013
• New Graphic Design: the 100 best contemporary graphic designers. 04/13
• Here, There, Everywhere by Droog, Amsterdam. 2014
• One by One, by Hesign, Berlin, Beijing. 10/12
• Stop, Think, Go, Do by Steve Heller/Mirko Illic. 2012
• Asian Graphics Now! Taschen. 2010
• Shapes and Symbols, Rockport Publishers. 2010
• Logo Lounge 6, Rockport Publishers. 2010

• Unconscious Design: A Look at the Design of Everyday India. Verve Magazine. 05/17
• Design Pataka: the Explosion of Design in India, 2010–16. A report commissioned by the Government of the Netherlands and Dutch Culture. 12/16
• The Kaavad: from devotion to decoration, Garland online magazine. 12/16
• Kutch: a visual identity for a radiant people
• A Future for Design: Improvisation through the Informal Economy; Take on Art (Design Issue). 01/12
• A Partnership of Contrasts, Dutch DFA Annual Report, Page 62–64. 01/10