'Prayog'
A workshop by Prof. Santosh Kshirsagar
Workshop Theme : The workshop is about experimenting in Calligraphy in order to understand its various un-tapped possibilities. It is about experimenting with your own script, understanding issues like expression within and beyond legibility. We will explore various methods that open up to new structural stylizations of letter form that can be applicable to any script culture.
By-product of workshop/expected outcome: New ideas of experimentation with script. Can be applicable to new concept for Type Design, and yet formal, as well informal.

About Instructor:

  Prof. Santosh Kshirsagar

Faculty Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai, India.
B.F.A., M.F.A. (by research) from Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art. Mumbai, India. Teaching Indian (especially Devanagari) Calligraphy, Typography and visual communication design, from more than two decades at JJIAA, Mumbai. Type Design for Microsoft (OTF for window xp) in Gujrathi & Oriya scripts. He has delivered illustrated talks on Indian Calligraphy in Germany, Belgium, London and Japan. Work exhibited in Australia, USA. Show in Japan with Prof. Mori Kooun. Research presentations: ICTVC Cyprus, ATYPAI Dublin, Ireland, International Graphonomics Society Conference, Japan. He is on expert and advisory board of Typography Day since 2009 till date. He has conducted several workshops, in India and abroad. He is an academic consultant to governmental organizations and many private institutions in India.
He is Co-Founder Aksharaya, NGO devoted to letter-form and related issues. http://aksharaya.org/
He is currently pursuing PhD at IDC, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. His area of research is investigating acquisition of handwriting.