Vinod Vidwans is a Professor at the Flame School of Communication. He was a Senior Designer (Professor) and an Ex-Vice Chairman (Research) at National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. He also headed the Departments of New Media and Software User Interface Design at NID, Ahmedabad. He is also a visiting faculty at IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Kanpur, Indian Institute of Science Banglore, D J Academy of Design Coimbtore, and Pt. Deendayal Petrolium University Gandhinagar.

Dr. Vidwans is a cognitive philosopher, a designer and a portrait painter. He has done his Ph. D in Cognitive Philosophy and Master of Design from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He also holds a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from Nagpur University where he topped. He is a recipient of Junior Research Fellowship in Fine Arts from University Grants Commission, India.

His doctoral work postulates a new paradigm called `Design Intelligence’ and characterizes creativity from a new perspective. He carries more than twenty years of eventful professional and research experience with him. While working in the industry and managing Information design and development projects, he explored various facets of New Media Design. He has developed Sharada multilingual technology for Indian languages. He has also developed a computational theory of Indian classical music.

At FLAME, Dr. Vidwans is a Professor of Creativity and New Media Communication. Teaching is his chosen profession to follow a passion called Creativity. He believes, creativity is the crux of human existence and expression. Shaping up young and raw minds towards Creative-Intelligence is a challenge as well as a satisfaction. Creativity is a natural articulation and manifestation of intention. Creativity follows natural laws. One must remain loyal to these laws. The rest follows.