Speaker Zenab Bastawala

Zenab Bastawala is an educator, typographer, and sign collector. She acquired a Bachelor’s Degree in visual communication design from Swinburne University, and a Master’s Degree in typeface design from the University of Reading. Bastawala teaches at the Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, and Technology in Bangalore, India. Here, she founded Thinking Letterforms, a letterpress print lab, where she conducts workshops on the theory and practice of typography and typesetting. Bastawala has particular interests in Indian archives and experimental tools used to create Indic letterforms that have visual texture and contemporary interpretation of traditional.