Nanki Nath did her Post Graduation in Graphic Design from National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad (2005-2008). At NID her visual research-based final year project aimed to design the complete Wayfinding Design strategy and signage designs for..
Nanki Nath did her Post Graduation in Graphic Design from National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad (2005-2008). At NID her visual research-based final year project aimed to design the complete Wayfinding Design strategy and signage designs for old city Jaipur with a team of architects and urban designers from CEPT Ahmedabad. This live project was part of a range of 41 projects of revitalization of the city of Jaipur given to CEPT Ahmedabad by the Project Development Corporation
of Rajasthan (PDCOR) between 2006-2007. After completion of this project in 2008, she joined Integrated Design Services (IDS) at NID as a junior visualizer for industry-affiliated consultancy projects. In 2009, she was called as a Visiting Faculty to conduct the course of „Typography & Layout for Document Design‟ by Indian Institute of Crafts & Design (IICD), Jaipur. Since 2009 till 2014, she
joined as a full-time teaching assistant and doctoral student with Industrial Design Centre (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). Her publications since 2009 till date involve print and web proceedings in international conferences and national magazines and one journal publication is in review. At IDC, she got the opportunity to assist for the course of „Visual Syntactics‟ for M.Des. students and was also invited for talks on her project work in the areas of Bilingual typography and Typeface Design case study as part of the course on Typography for M.Des. students at IDC. Her recently submitted doctoral thesis in 2015, formulates a visual analytical framework of colour in shop signs in India across selected cities and time periods. In the current role of Assistant Professor at the Design Department at IITG since 2014, she has taught Graphic Design studio techniques to B.Des. students and Basic Typography to M. Des. students. She also got the opportunity to contribute
as a Guest Editor in the special issue on Women Researchers' in India, in the esteemed e-newsletter, namely 'Design for All Institute of India', New Delhi in 2014. In the same year, she was part of the design co-ordination team of faculty members for Exhibition Display Design of DoD student work for International Ergonomics Conference "HWWE 2014" at Design Department, IITG. Her other areas of interests include Design Thinking and Pedagogy, Design Education, Design Research Methods for furthering the discipline of Visual Communication in context of India.
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