About SCID

Ms. Priyadharsni R is a Fashion designer and an educator. She has associated with an international buying house specialised in trend reporting and has designed western wear in knits for various European brands and also for domestic ones. Due to her endless interest in exploring Indian traditional attires, she has managed, designed and developed a unique ethic wear with different embodiment techniques for her family boutique named TRENDY DANDY. She has also designed and developed jewelleries in fabrics, upcycled and sustainable materials at her boutique. As a fashion faculty in a fashion institute she is well known for organising fashion events and conceptual fashion shows. As a fashion stylist and event coordinator she has done a challenging task of styling sixty different looks of seamless garments. She has also coordinated a fashion show for an international organization named SHIMA SHIEKI for their collection launch.

Mr. Nikheel Aphale is a calligrapher and graphic designer. He is passionate about calligraphy and letterforms, especially Devanagri script and is currently working at the intersection of design and art through commissioned art and commercial calligraphy projects, alongside mainstream graphic design assignments. Nikheel has designed many book covers for leading publishers from India using calligraphy & hand lettering. His calligraphy practice primarily emphasizes on the abstraction of letterforms, which further gets translated into different mediums, be it paintings, logos or products. Nikheel is born as a Mumbaikar and is now based out at Delhi. He religiously collects matchboxes, vintage stuff and plain-notebooks. As an avid foodie and wanderer, he says that he is still figuring out the cliché of “How someone from Bombay is liking and adjusting to Delhi.”

Mr. Pulak Bhatnagar is a Graphic designer and Illustrator based out of New Delhi, India. He is a communication designer by education and the founder of PulakB Design Studio at New Delhi, India. It is a full stack design studio specializing in Branding, Identity and UI design, Strategic Thinking and Storytelling. The studio also comprises Photography, Illustration, web design and development services.

Mr. Prosenjit Ganguly is an independent Animation Film Designer. He is an alumnus and former faculty Member of the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. He is a screenwriter, creative director, IP creator, stop-motion animator, voice artist and a media educator. His short films have been showcased in more than 20 countries winning three international awards. He has also been on the advisory board of NASSCOM’s Animation and Gaming division and was previously on the Advisory board of The Animation Society of Kolkata (TASK). He was also a part of the Working Committee of The Animation Society of India (TASI). He regularly conducts workshops for animation enthusiasts across the country, throughout the year.

Mr.Jaya Govindan Menon has over 30 years of editorial and design experience working with mainstream publishing and corporate communication across print and new media. Over 150 cartoons are to his credit, published in The Hindu and Madras Musings. Interviews and features on his work have appeared in The Hindu, Business Line, New Indian Express, Industrial Economist and British Council’s Connect. He is a recipient of All India Kodak Award for Photographic Excellence (1987) and the Charles Wallace Award (1999) for Post-graduate studies in design in the UK. Many of his works have won national level awards for publication and corporate communication design. Menon has taught at the University of Madras, Asian College of Journalism and National Institute of Design (NID).

Ms.Mons Selvam, an Architect by education and an entrepreneur is the  present Guinness record holder of making the longest comic strip (351.7 meters) & is also a record holder of the Asia book. She is the founder of ‘Mons Selvam’, an illustration and product company and has also started educating young minds on the art of illustration through workshops. This workshop enables the students to understand the elements of composition, Principles of composition, Composition in 2D and 3D spaces. Additional objective of this workshop is to develop sensitivity towards visual perception, acquiring conceptual ability and the necessary skills for creating compositions using basic elements (point, line etc) and also to understand the visual dynamics that exists between any two or more given elements within a given format.

Prof. Parthiban Rajagokuldas comes with an extensive experience of 19 years in architecture, research and design. His expertise lies in visual ethnography with regards to design and history of design thinking. He specializes in culture studies with an in-depth analysis of values and assessed the tangible and intangible aspects of the cultural heritage. He has also been a part of the UNESCO convention to share insights concerning heritage, conservation, history and theory of architecture and the basics of design

Mr.Sridhar pursued his Bachelors from B. Arch (MIT, Manipal) and went on to major in Architecture form Hindustan University, Chennai. Mr. Sridhar specializes in residential architecture and interior design with an extensive experience of over three decades in this field. His pedagogical experience of Architectural education spans across 13 years. 

Dr.Simon Bell, a multilingual design consultant is a published author, a tutor, and an educational and book editorial / design consultant. He has authored a children’s book titled, ‘I’m Amelia Rate and no one else’. A pedagogical expert, his pursuits include Multimodal, Fiction, Non-fiction writing, Children’s illustrated fiction, Children’s digital news, Translation, Adaptation, Language Teaching, Critical Lexicon, Essay Analysis, Text Correction, Academic Writing Book Proposal, Publishing, Editorial, Online course development / teaching and Writing applications.