Vijai Singh Katiyar is an accomplished designer and a senior faculty member at the NID. In his career spanning nearly two decades, he has undertaken considerable amount of work in many aspects of design and design education. He has led and given impetus to a number of activities at the NID including education, outreach, professional practice, research and international programmes. He is also founder of the 'International Center for Indian Crafts' at NID. As design consultant, he has helped a number of business enterprises. He has authored several papers on design and other related topics served on several jury panels of international design competitions. His other book is Design Education: Tradition & Modernity. He is also a member, governing council, Kumarappa National Handmade Paper Institute, Jaipur, and actively contributes to several other professional and administrative bodies.
Wisdom Tree is an independent Indian publishing organisation that believes in creating books that are Indian in essence and global in appeal. Wisdom Tree books reach across the globe having been translated into several foreign languages and being sold in all the English speaking countries of the world. Eminent and acclaimed writers who have chosen Wisdom Tree to showcase their work include Karan Thapar, Shubha Mudgal, Kapila Vatsyayan, Amit Dasgupta, Ashwani Lohani, Suresh Oberoi, Jaya Jaitly, Bharat Thakur, Sonal Mansingh and H.Y. Sharadaprasad, among others.
National Institute of Design