Charvi Shrimali
MFA PRODUCTS OF DESIGN
School of Visual Arts SVA
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Design Research / Service Design / Design and Technology
My location: New York, United States
Charvi Shrimali
First Name: Charvi
Last Name: Shrimali
University / College: School of Visual Arts SVA
Course / Program: MFA PRODUCTS OF DESIGN
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Design Research / Service Design / Design and Technology
My Location: New York, United States
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About
Charvi is a designer and storyteller from Jaipur, India, a city known for its rich history and vibrant arts and crafts community. Her close relationship with her grandparents fostered a love of local legends, regional festivals, and rare desert specialities, all of which inspired her creative pursuits.After enrolling in the Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology in Bangalore, India, Charvi's college experience took an unexpected turn. Rather than focusing on drawing and painting, she spent her first year exploring the city and its people. This experience taught her about the intrinsic relationship between design and communities, and how to centre people in her work.Charvi is deeply passionate about using design to share stories often left unheard. She believes in creating a platform for marginalized voices and using her skills to bring forth narratives that are often overlooked.
India is a country with over 700 languages, each with their own dialects and often with their own unique scripts. Google Font, one of the largest free font libraries in the world only represents 9 of these languages. These nine languages collectively have only 56 font options between them. Compare this to a staggering archive of over 1400 Latin fonts. This disparity isn’t because there aren't enough speakers. For example, my mother tongue, Hindi, with its many regional variations, is the third most spoken language in the world with over 700 million speakers. That’s twice the population of the US. But the lack of representation can leave a language even as popular as Hindi marginalized. Lipi is a Devanagari keyboard that reimagines the typing experience beyond QWERTY. It is a speculative keyboard that questions the assumed universality of widely-used design tools by highlighting the nuances of the Hindi language that are often forced out of the keyboard due to standardisation practices.
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