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Teachers 

without Borders

Dr. Shelley Gruendler//Light, USA
Zenab Bastawala //Medium, India
Dr. Raltisa Deoborah//Dark, Africa

This collaboration is the results from February 2021 between Graphic Design students at Srishti Manipal Institute (India), Kwama Nkrumah University (Ghana), and Ohio University (United States).

The original goals were to break up the monotony of online learning -- and online teaching. 'We' wanted to connect our students across the world as technology had now rendered the process no different than them connecting with their school classmates. Each country contributed a historical script from their indigenous culture: Adinkra from Ghana; Kannada from India;  Cherokee from the United States. However, this was not just an opportunity to do a connected typography project. As many students in a previous iteration of this collaboration had never before spoken with a person from another country, connecting students with their international student colleagues was a must. While the obvious result was a script with three different cultural starting points, the primary aim was to connect our design students so that they can see that the world is in fact bigger than what they know.

  • connect

​All work © Zenab Bastawala unless otherwise noted. 

All course work credited to students.

Fonts in use  Gujarati and Latin: Rasa Regular, Rosetta Type Foundry.

Latin: Ottavio Bold and Oswald Font of The Month​

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