Kalapi Gajjar Type Design

Kalapi is an Indian typeface designer and font engineer. He graduated from The Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda. And he later pursued his post-graduation in Typeface Design from University of Reading. In 2016, he joined forces with friend and fellow University of Reading graduate Gunnar Vilhjálmsson to set-up Universal Thirst, a design practice specialising in developing typefaces for writing systems of the Indian sub-continent. Universal Thirst has designed multiple latin and Indic bespoke typefaces for various companies, brands and events. Soon, they’re releasing their own retail typefaces. On this episode, we talk about Kalapi’s life, design education and type design work. We talk about his foundry Universal Thirst and the business of Type Design. RELEVANT LINKS Universal Thirst - universalthirst.com Kalapi (The Poet) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalapi Saurashtra (region) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurashtra_(region) Rahul Gajjar - Sandhya Gajjar - MSU Baroda - msubaroda.ac.in Baroda/Vadodara - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadodara Bhasha - Dr. Ganesh Devy - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._N._Devy Pavagadh - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavagadh Rajkot - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajkot NID - nid.edu Bauhaus - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus Mahendra Patel - designedthisway.com (3rd Episode Guest) Weiden + Kennedy - Hanif Kureshi - guerrilla.work/About GV SreeKumar (IDC) - Fiona Ross - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Ross_(type_designer) University of Reading - Neelakash Kshetrimanyum - Gerry Leonidas - leonidas.net Gunnar Vilhjálmsson - Erin McLaughlin - erinmclaughlin.com Linotype - (Ofcourse) Gerard Unger - Johnathan Barnbrook - John Hudson - fonts.adobe.com/designers/john-hudson Unicode - Shri-lipi - Michael Twyman (with his ephemera) - , , James Mosley - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mosley St Bride Library - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Bride_Library Linotype Gujarati - Orthography - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthography Matras (Devanagri) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari#Vowels University of Liden - Dutch Type (Book) - Noto - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto STEAM - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEAM_fields Dalton Maag - Metal Type - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_metal Backward compatibility - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_compatibility Complex Script - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout Hangul - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul Telugu - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_script Nokia Pure by Dalton Maag - Malcolm Wooden & Northern Block Foundry - thenorthernblock.co.uk/malcolm Typotheque Blog - Logo painted by sign painter Joshua - Sophy Hollington - Korra Denim - korra.in Dhaka Arts Summit - Bangla - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language Fraser Muggeridge Studio - Frieze Sans - Here Maps - wego.here.com/ Indigo Airlines - goindigo.in Bauhaus (Font) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus_(typeface) Anagha Narayanan - Elai - Variable Font - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_font

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This episode was published on Apr 22, 2021.

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