Ishita Jain

Ishita is an illustrator and graphic designer from New Delhi. She is a graduate of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and is currently pursuing her masters in Illustration as Visual Essay at the School of Visual Arts, New York. She loves to document moments from her life and travels in her sketchbooks. She co-authored and illustrated - The Girl who went to the Stars and Other Extraordinary Lives, a book published by Penguin Random House, India. On this episode, we talk about Ishita’s journey as a designer and about how she acquired the obsessive habit of documentation through sketching. She also shares with us her struggles in finding a right work-life balance and her efforts to build sustainable work habits. SECTIONS - TIME INDEX Childhood and Early influences - 00:02:00 Design Education at NID - 00:11:30 Graduation Project - 00:21:26 Part-time job with a start-up - 00:24:40 Book - ‘The Girl Who Went to the Stars: and Other Extraordinary Lives’ - 00:28:55 Masters Program at SVA - 00:41:50 Project - Unladylike - 00:55:00 Thesis Project - 01:02:00 RELEVANT LINKS Ishita Jain - ishitajain.in Ishita Jain Instagram - www.instagram.com/ishitajain24 Streams in Indian Senior Secondary education - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_India#12th_(Senior_Secondary_or_Higher_Secondary)_Exam Cuttlefish - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuttlefish My podcast with Rajesh Dahiya - designedthisway.com I can draw (Book) - https://books.google.co.in/books/about/I_Can_Draw.html?id=9CHpeNGWPYgC&redir_esc=y Ruskin Bond - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruskin_Bond Entomology - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomology Gemology - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemology NID - www.nid.edu Srishti Institute - http://srishti.ac.in Green Goose Design - www.greengoosedesign.com Tarun Deep Giridhar - www.nid.edu/hi/people/faculty/tarun-deep-girdher.html Guesthouser - www.guesthouser.com The Girl Who Went to the Stars: and Other Extraordinary Lives - www.amazon.in/Girl-Who-Went-Stars-Extraordinary/dp/0143442627 Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls - https://www.rebelgirls.co/products/good-night-stories-for-rebel-girls Naomi Kundu - www.naomikundu.com Kalpana Chawla - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpana_Chawla Janaki Ammal - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janaki_Ammal SVA - sva.edu Visual Journalism - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_journalism Parsons New School - newschool.edu/parsons/ Pratt Institute - pratt.edu Unladylike - ishitajain.in/unladylike-1 Nariana, Delhi - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naraina_Area Riverside Park (Manhattan) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_Park_(Manhattan) New York Botanical Gardens - www.nybg.org Roberto Burle Marx - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Burle_Marx Wendy MacNaughton - wendymacnaughton.com Dr. Ina Vandebroek - www.nybg.org/person/ina-vandebroek/ Alex W. Crowder - alexmakesthings.com Auroville - auroville.org