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Mr. Kishen Patel
Kishen Patel has a Bachelor's in Product Design from NID, Ahmedabad and a Master's in Transportation Design from Umea Institute of Design, Sweden.
He has taught as a visiting faculty for Product design and Transportation design in various design institutes across the country including NID Ahmedabad, NID Vijaywada, GLSID Ahmedabad, The Design Village Noida, Nirma Institute of Design Ahmedabad and Parul University Baroda prior to joining KSD as a permanent faculty. Before starting his journey as a design educator, he has worked with Foley Design and Tata Motors.
Kishen has a keen interest in teaching courses related to Elements of Design, Analytical Drawing, Space, Form, Structure, Representation Techniques and Model Making which are important to build a solid foundation for any budding designer. He also teaches advanced courses like Simple Product Design, Technically Complex Products, Systems Design, Packaging Design etc for the senior semesters.
Ms. Nupur Gupta
Nupur is a Fashion Designer who hails from the city of Lucknow, the city which is the home to the crafts of Chikankari and Zardozi. She has a design practice named "Mrida" based in Ahmedabad and Lucknow. She has worked with some esteemed design firms in India including "Marks and Spencer".
Besides being a designer, she is an avid craftsperson who loves doing crochet and making amigurumi dolls in her spare time. She currently heads the School of Fashion and Costume Design at Khyati School of Design.
Mr. Devesh Waghela
Devesh Waghela is a dedicated educator and hard-core advertising professional. As a Communication Designer, he employs ingenious teaching methods and assignments to help students understand the academic and industrial perspectives of various subjects.
Devesh Waghela earned a bachelor's degree in Fashion Communication from NIFT and a master's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from Amity University. Devesh Waghela has 6+ years of experience in the field of Visual Communication and has worked with a number of well-known universities and institutes such as MSU, NIFT, INIFD, Skyblue, and Indus University
Ms. Abhilasha prajapati
Abhilasha Prajapati is an Associate Faculty in Visual Communication Department at Khyati School of Design, Ahmedabad, India. She is a Graduate in Bachelor of Design from National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. As a Graphic Designer, her professional experience includes conducting Hand lettering workshops, working on a Publication project with IIT Hyderabad, and collaboration with brands like Nalli Silks, Kaagazi and CIS India. Her Strengths lie in Publication Design, Hand lettering, Typography, and she continues to explore different approaches in her teaching methodology to make Design education more experiential for students.
Vikas Sharma
Under Graduated in Soft Material Application (Accessories, fashion & Textile Design) from Indian Institute of Crafts and Design, Jaipur.
Founder of Sustain Craft.
Having four years of experience in Corporate, NGOs, Academic and industries.
Having six years of experience as a freelance in graphic design.
Vikas is a textile designer by education and profession. He has worked with corporate brands such as Rays of sun Jaipur & Al Paper and NGOs such as Rangsutra Craft. He is keenly interested in vegan leather as a material and has created a wide range of products under his own craft brand by the name 'Sustain Craft'. His interests lie primarily with sustainable materials for a cleaner and greener future.
Viraj Dutt
Fashion Designer
B.Des, UID (United world Institute of Design), Gandhinagar
Ms. Ratna Sutaria Shah
Ratna Sutaria Shah is an alumnus of School of Architecture, CEPT Ahmedabad. She is a practising free-lance architect, urban designer, interior designer, colour consultant and researcher. Alongwith practising, she also has been an educator, both at undergraduate and post graduate studies and thesis guide at various design schools and universities in Ahmedabad. Her area of interest as a designer lies in design conceptualisation, detailing and interpreting cultural contexts as well as developing a multidisciplinary pedagogy in academics.
Deepak Kumar
Fashion Designer
Fashion designer Deepak kumar is highly skilled professional alumni of NIFT Gandhinagar and UID Ahmedabad He was awarded best creative and innovative design by NIFT in 2014 . He has eight years of experience in teaching design.He has worked with different universities as well as industries and self made brands .He educates technical subjects and design process at Khyati school of design and his practice green signal design studio respectively. He has worked extensively on silhouettes and different fashion designers with big names.
Amishi Vadgama
Prof. Amishi Vadgama is a full-time Associate Professor, and HOD of the Textile Design Dept at the Khyati School of Design, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. She is a Textile Designer, Researcher and an Academician by profession and continues to teach in the discipline of Textile Design and Foundation Programme related courses. She also is pursuing her PhD from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, India on the subject of “Bridging the tacit knowledge of artisans to Design Pedagogy”. Her journey in textiles dates back to the year 2009 while pursuing her Master's Degree at NID and the communication with artisans began ever since she set foot on field visits to different parts of India and continues till date. Her experience constitutes Textile Industry, craft sector setup as well as research-based work for the past 10 years.
Bhavya Singh
Integrated M.Des in Industrial Design, GLS Institute of Design.
Resheph Christian
Design Entrepreneur and Educator
Fashion & Lifestyle Accessory designer with specialization in Ceramics & Home décor products
Bachelor of Design from National institute of Fashion Technology, 2015
Co-Founder and principal designer at KEPH Design Studio
Assistant professor at Unitedworld institute of Design, Gandhinagar
Shikha Menon
Lifestyle Accessory Designer
B.Des, UID (United World Institute of Design), Gandhinagar
Keyuri Bhargava
Design Entrepreneur and Educator
Fashion & Lifestyle Accessory designer with specialisation in Handbag & Lifestyle product design
Bachelor of Design from National institute of Fashion Technology, 2015
Co-Founder and principal designer at KEPH Design Studio
Assistant professor at Unitedworld institute of Design, Gandhinagar
Designer at Baggit India, Mumbai
Interim designer at Wills Lifestyle – ITC Limited
Harshad Mane
Harshad Mane is a Set Designer and Interior Designer with an experience of 5 years in field of Set Design, 3years in Interior Design. 2.5 years in Design Academics. He has received Masters in Design, Degree from United Institute of Design - ID – (GLS UNIVERSITY, Ahmedabad Gujarat.)n
Harshad has a strong foundation in technical theatre and films, He was involved directly with
professionals in the industry, A more practical approach to the process of concept to creation and
also understands the importance of how a sketch is developed into actual live setups without losing
its essence.
His experience from past 10 years which has added up to personal and professional projects for
Hindi/ English/ Marathi / Gujarati Theatre - Set design for plays, Restaurant works- Amicoroum – was
published in Ahmedabad Times 2017, Worked with Firms like- DDA- Ahmedabad, Square Feet Design
Studio- Mumbai, Green Square Architects- Mumbai. (Qualia. Brewdog. ChinChinChu. HOM & Sassy
Spoon )
He has also been involved with designing commercial projects, client coordination’s, Estimations,
and executions all over these years which has led him to, set design awards / Twice Zee nominations
/ One State Award.
A design mind frame with execution capability helps to deliver refined services