MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART (MICA) MFA IN GRAPHIC DESIGN
Shiva Nallaperumal is a graphic designer and type designer from India, currently in the MFA Graphic Design program at MICA. He has worked with a wide range of clients from feminist publishers to Facebook Asia creating identity systems, exhibitions, typefaces and illustrated works. Shiva has interned at Pentagram under Abbott Miller and works as an external designer for The Indian Type Foundry (ITF). He has also published typefaces through Lost Type Co-Op.
FAVORITE COLOR?
Black (in print)
FAVORITE TYPEFACE?
One is too difficult! Here’s three: Lexicon by Bram De Does, FF Beowolf by Letterror, Greta Sans by Peter Bilak
FAVORITE APP?
VSCO Cam
FAVORITE TV SHOW?
Twin Peaks
FAVORITE BOOK?
Again, here’s three: V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd; Blankets by Craig Thompson; Design, Writing, Research by Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller
FAVORITE MOVIES?
Hey Ram, The Lives of Others, Blade Runner
FAVORITE MUSICIAN OR BAND?
Sonic Youth, The Beatles, Illayaraja
FAVORITE FINE ARTIST?
Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Keith Harring
BOOKMARKED WEBSITES?
This Isn’t Happiness, Fonts In Use, But Does It Float
YOUR DESIGN HERO?
Peter Bilak
TALENT YOU WISH YOU POSSESSED?
Watercolor Painting
IF YOU WERE NOT A DESIGNER, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Make films or draw comic books
A MANTRA OR SAYING YOU LIVE BY?
Seek images that don’t exist ‒ Adam Jagajewski
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