head, hand & heart

Head, Hand & Heart, is the graduation project of Sheik Mohamed Ishaq, which essentially deals with the data from the archives of National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad.

NID is a premiere design institute set up during the Nehruvian era upon the recommendations from Charles and Ray Eames.

The three books offers an introspective view on three design teachers; H. Kumar Vyas, Helena Perheentupa and M.P. Ranjan, who played a major role in shaping the design curriculum at NID and paved a path for design education in India.

The books were a shortlist for the Alkazi Photobook Grant of 2017.

The books were exhibitied at

Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai in the exhibition “IMPACT: Design thinking and the visual arts in young India”.
Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa in the exhibition “Look, Stranger!”.
Museo Cabanas, Mexico in the exhibition “Modernism in India”.