In Part 1 of this episode, Manojna Yeluri – Lawyer and Founder of Artistik License, walks us through the legalities of being artists and designers. She tells us what got her working with the creative community as a lawyer. We learn about the methods she has used to demystify legalese and make useful legal information […]
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In Part 2 of our chat with Ragini Siruguri, Visual Communication Designer at Tara Books, we talk about her love for colours, her photography and visual inspiration. Ragini shares her approach in her graphic design projects and how local context helps us design better. We discuss the state of Design Education today and Ragini tells […]
In this episode we talk to Ragini Siruguri about her work as a book designer at Tara Books. She shares how she got started and tells us about her interesting book projects while working there. We also discuss her eye for visual communication and the ways in which she documents the world around her visually. […]
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E024 Play for Everyone
In this episode, we talk to Aditi Agrawal who is the co-founder of Studio Gudgudee – a design studio that works on inclusive playgrounds. We discuss how designing for playful learning requires deep observation and getting out of the way and allowing it to happen. We re-iterate the power of play in the over all […]
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E023 Experiments with Productivity
In this episode, we talk about productivity and how it can be about managing expectations and emotions as much as it is about managing time. Listen to the episode here: References: NY Times article about procrastination Book: Make Time Book: Atomic Habits Book: Design the Life you love Transcript Angie: Hi, this is Design […]
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E022 Art as a Life Skill
Full Episode here: References: Nitasha’s Art Babblers initiative: http://www.artbabblers.com https://www.instagram.com/artbabblers https://www.facebook.com/artbabblers/ Transcript: Sushi: Hi, this is Design Lota, the podcast where we talk about life as Indian Designers. Angie: So! It’s been a while. How’ve you been, Sushi? Sushi: I’m excited for Season 3, and what we have lined up. Did you miss me? […]
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Season 3 Coming Soon!
Presenting Season 3 of the Design Lota podcast! Coming this Friday, August 9th. We have some interesting episodes lined up – we’re talking about Inclusive Design, Art Therapy, Productivity, Illustration, Visual Communication in the Indian Context and more. Featuring designers Ragini Siruguri, Akshaya Elizabeth Zachariah, Studio Gudgudee, Nitasha Saarangi and of course the co-hosts Angie […]
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E021 The User in UX
In this episode we talk to Ripul Kumar, Head of UX at Tally and Ex-founder of a design research firm, Kern. Listen here: Summary: Ripul talks about how he discovered User Research to be his forte and what led to him opening his own research firm. We discuss how research techniques must be creatively […]
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E020 A Year of Design Lota
It’s been year since we started this podcast. We’re fondly calling it a Lota-versary! While most of our episodes are recorded remotely, we met and had a quick chat about how we started, what we learnt and some of our favourite episodes. Listen to the episode here: The video for this episode: […]
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E019 Design and Sustainability
In this episode, Sushi and Angie discuss the inconvenient truths about design and sustainability, and what we can do about it. Listen here: References: Angie talks about her initial learnings from Story of Stuff https://storyofstuff.org Sushi mentions the hilarious and relevent Green Humour Comics http://www.greenhumour.com Sushi designed activity boxes in collaboration with Tanushree Agarwal for […]
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