Prajakta Parvatikar, PhD in Visual Arts; is a practicing teacher (Associate Professor) in leading design institute from Mumbai, Rachana Sansad. She is also handling the In-charge Principal position there for the past four years. Dr. Prajakta completed her post-graduation and graduation studying Visual Communication, Typography, Advertising and Design from Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai.

 

She is significantly guiding budding talent for Advertising-Design profession for two decades, exposing them to the rich Indian Cultural Heritage. Through fundamental and new teaching methods, her projects always focus on exploring extinct, obsolete, lesser known Indian Traditional Art forms. Her focus has always been on advocating rich content to current designer generation so that they develop media for the contemporary audiences.

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Her research interests include Understanding Visual Culture through Images, Vernacular Typography.