[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” full_height=”yes” parallax=”enable_parallax” enable_loading_bg=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1658127292155{margin-bottom: 75px !important;padding-top: 100px !important;padding-bottom: 100px !important;background-image: url(https://www.dimplebahl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IMG_1274.jpg?id=4412) !important;background-position: center;background-repeat: no-repeat;background-size:cover;}”][vc_column align=”text-center”][ld_fancy_heading split_type=”chars, words” ca_init_scale_x=”1″ ca_init_scale_y=”1″ ca_init_scale_z=”1″ ca_init_opacity=”0″ ca_an_scale_x=”1″ ca_an_scale_y=”1″ ca_an_scale_z=”1″ ca_an_opacity=”1″ use_custom_fonts_title=”true” enable_fit=”true” enable_split=”true” color=”rgb(209, 19, 19)” fs=”80px” ls=”0pxx” ca_init_translate_y=”26″ ca_init_rotate_z=”4″ duration=”1200″ margin=”bottom_large:0px|top_small:200px” fw=”700″ delay=”60″ minfontsize=”65″]Dimple Bahl[/ld_fancy_heading][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner enable_content_animation=”yes” ca_init_scale_x=”1″ ca_init_scale_y=”1″ ca_init_scale_z=”1″ ca_init_opacity=”0″ ca_an_scale_x=”1″ ca_an_scale_y=”1″ ca_an_scale_z=”1″ ca_an_opacity=”1″ ca_duration=”1200″ ca_init_translate_y=”37″ ca_init_rotate_z=”0″ ca_start_delay=”400″][ld_button style=”btn-solid” title=”Get in touch” transformation=”text-uppercase” link_type=”scroll_to_section” shape=”circle” color=”rgb(190, 133, 0)” fs=”13px” lh=”1.5em” ls=”0.1em” css=”.vc_custom_1658120889903{padding-right: 1em !important;padding-left: 1em !important;}” hover_color=”rgb(184, 43, 43)”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row gap=”5″ enable_content_animation=”yes” ca_init_scale_x=”1″ ca_init_scale_y=”1″ ca_init_scale_z=”1″ ca_init_opacity=”0″ ca_an_scale_x=”1″ ca_an_scale_y=”1″ ca_an_scale_z=”1″ ca_an_opacity=”1″ enable_row_shadowbox=”yes” ca_duration=”1200″ ca_delay=”150″ ca_init_translate_x=”-27″ css=”.vc_custom_1658132069979{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}” row_box_shadow=”%5B%7B%7D%5D”][vc_column width=”1/6″ offset=”vc_col-md-4″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row enable_content_animation=”yes” ca_init_scale_x=”1″ ca_init_scale_y=”1″ ca_init_scale_z=”1″ ca_init_opacity=”0″ ca_an_scale_x=”1″ ca_an_scale_y=”1″ ca_an_scale_z=”1″ ca_an_opacity=”1″ css=”.vc_custom_1658127396364{padding-top: 55px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 55px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}” ca_duration=”1200″ ca_delay=”150″ ca_init_translate_x=”-26″][vc_column offset=”vc_col-md-4″][ld_fancy_heading tag=”h2″ use_custom_fonts_title=”true” margin=”bottom_large:0px” fs=”36px” lh=”1.111em”]I’m Dimple Bahl [/ld_fancy_heading][ld_fancy_heading tag=”h6″ transform=”text-uppercase” use_custom_fonts_title=”true” color=”rgb(211, 169, 133)” fs=”14px” ls=”0.1em” fw=”400″]Practicing Graphic Designer [/ld_fancy_heading][vc_single_image image=”4416″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d” enable_opacity=”yes” opacity=”1″ css_animation=”fadeInLeft” image_max_width=”150″ css=”.vc_custom_1658129832792{padding-top: 20px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”4418″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d” enable_opacity=”yes” opacity=”1″ css_animation=”fadeInLeft” image_max_width=”150″ css=”.vc_custom_1658132260541{padding-top: px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][/vc_column][vc_column offset=”vc_col-md-offset-1 vc_col-md-7″][vc_column_text]
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Dimple Bahl is a practicing graphic designer with a focus on visual brand strategy, publication design, and an enduring interest in traditional Indian folk media. This inquisitiveness in the latter culminated in a celebrated Ph.D. research to understand grids, symbolism, and other nuances in the graphic design of ancient Indian scriptures with the aim to decipher their profoundly textured and meaningful layout techniques. Her exploration of the Indian graphic design paradigm also found expression in a nine-day exhibition, Scripting the Past for The Future, which was conceived, designed, and executed in association with the prestigious National Manuscript Mission and the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Art. It was followed by the publication of a book on the subject – The Ancient Indian Grid System: A New Gateway to Modern Design Language. She recently also had the honor of having her paper entitled ‘Grid systems and universality in Indian graphic design: A study of Jain manuscripts’ published in Communication Design, an acclaimed international, peer-reviewed publication heralded by the prestigious Ico-D. More than two decades into an academic career with the Fashion Communication Department at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, one of her academic initiatives has been to sensitize students to India’s rich art and design heritage. She is currently delving deeper into the mysteries of the grid and their unraveling in other ancient Indian manuscripts. |
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| Think of any aspect of modern life aesthetic – the floor plan of your house, the newspaper you read this morning or Facebook, graphic design is probably instrumental in defining and distinguishing its content. Look more carefully and you will see basic grids providing the framework to organize space and manage the flow of information. |
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Currently, the Western aesthetic dictates grids, but the fact is that Ancient Indian art abounds in its innovative use. From the organic-spiritual connection of temple plans to the fluidity of design in auspicious symbology, endless examples of the creative uses of the grid shine through. Unfortunately, we suffer from inadequate knowledge of this rich legacy, owing largely to the accent on Western pedagogy, so strongly laid in design education. With an aim to garner sensitivity to the fact that grids can also be dynamic and free-flowing as expertly illustrated by our ancestors, one also hopes to bridge the gap between modern design and traditional art to create a uniquely Indian design language. The aim is to underline a strong link between Graphic Design and Indian Design definition, to highlight the possibility of evolving a strong, indigenous graphic language that could speak eloquently its own vocabulary while adhering to the predominantly western principles that form the current bulwark of modern design education, that might ignore the indigenous aspects so evident in ancient grid structures. |
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Indian design through the ages, with all its attendant nuances and symbolic representations, has displayed a sense of universal appropriateness, which comes closest to describing the very Indian concept of Auchitya. Each object, image, and system seems to have been created to perform a specific human function, whether physical or psychological, literal or symbolic. In India’s past, the two concepts of art & craft had been more closely linked than they are generally thought to have been. It’s only with a European influence that Kala was segregated into Charukala-fine arts & Karukala- applied arts. Indian design thought lays stress on the seamlessness of thought, where everything merges without break into the next logical concept. There is a thread that binds and interconnects all concepts into a cohesive whole. |
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The exhibition was essentially an investigation into the presence & role of grids in Indian culture, with the focus being on Jain scriptures. The aim of the exhibition was to underline a strong link between Graphic Design and Indian Design definition and to highlight the possibility of evolving a strong, indigenous graphic language that could speak eloquently its own vocabulary while adhering to the predominantly western principles that form the current bulwark of modern design education, principles that tend to ignore the indigenous aspects so evident in indigenous grid structures. The Indian cultural heritage and its various manuscripts are good examples of the existence of an alternative that could lend variety and perspective to current curricula. Archiving, digitization, and publicity for these alternatives to the global trends would probably help propagate the design sensibilities that could eventually grow into our own design language which was the core idea behind the exhibition. |
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