Jay Menon has over 30 years of editorial and design experience working with main stream publishing and corporate communication across print and new media. Over 150 cartoons are to his credit, published in The Hindu and Madras Musings. Interviews and features on his work have appeared in The Hindu, Business Line, New Indian Express, Industrial Economist and British Council’s Connect. He is a recipient of the all India Kodak Award for Photographic Excellence (1987) and the Charles Wallace Award (1999) for Post-graduate studies in design in the UK. Many of his works won national level awards for publication and corporate communication design. Menon has taught at the University of Madras, Asian College of Journalism and National Institute of Design (NID). He was a Senior Professor and headed the Communication Design department at D J Academy of Design, Coimbatore.He continues to teach and mentor aspiring students of graphic design. Menon is currently Principal Consultant at Grantha Consulting, specialising in book design and corporate communication.