Mahendra Patel
Indian typeface designer and teacher (born 1943)
About Mahendra Patel
Mahendra Patel was an Indian type designer.
Mahendra Patel, born February 21 1943, is an Indian typeface designer and teacher. He studied at the University of Baroda Faculty of Fine Arts, and at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad. He attended the Advanced Program for Graphic Design at Schule für Gestaltung Basel, Switzerland, in 1968. In 1971, he worked for one year with Adrian Frutiger in Paris.
In 2010 he was awarded the Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz for his contribution to typography.
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