As a fun personal project, I came up with a single image that would represent the Netflix series ‘The Queen’s Gambit’. My goal was to visually describe the tension that each episode maintains for the protagonist Elizabeth ‘Beth’ Harmon.
Created using Cinema 4D and finished in Adobe Photoshop.
When COVID-19 started to spread and the 2020 worldwide pandemic hit, a close friend of mine decided to write a book on the subject. He reached out to me for help designing the book cover. This was the result of our collaboration.
The title of the book was something I proposed, as was the book cover design. My concept behind the direction of this design was to show that a deadly viral pathogen had escaped. The book title I proposed was to further highlight the fact that the simple act of breathing had become deadly to our species.
While this wasn’t the final book cover that was chosen, the collaboration was nevertheless successful and resulted in beautiful portfolio piece.
Created in Cinema 4D and finished in Adobe Photoshop.
This is the first of a series of posters meant to inspire and motivate, mostly myself, and others to be the best version of ourselves we can be and to live up to our full potential. Can you spot ‘Risks’?
More posters to come.
Failure brings wisdom. Success precedes joy.
My grandfather turned a hundred in 2015 so I decided to interview him with a 100+ questions about his life and experiences. I put the word out on facebook and among family and the questions poured in. I asked him close to 115 unique questions over two recording sessions over my 5-day trip home to India.
Each video is a different question answered by him. I've tried to include images of his life and references within each video to give an outsider a better grasp of the life he has lived.
As the editing process is a tedious one, this project is still under development. I'm in the process of editing and uploading the first batch of videos soon though, so if you don't see anything yet, please come back soon.
This 100-question interview about his life and experiences is my way of honoring his achievement and immortalizing his wisdom.
Along with being an art director and creative, I'm also a budding voice actor. I love doing character voices and I started working with a few other voice actors to do some original work.
Storybook Racket was one of the projects we worked on. It was a take on Goldilocks and the Three Bears but with gangsters narrating the story off-screen while the characters in the story (and on-screen) were forced to act out the story being narrated.
Storybook Racket is an animated short that I worked on with some friends. We selected 2 minutes to voice and animate, to put on Kickstarter. I've included a few videos below from the project including a 'Behind the Scenes' piece.
The Kickstarter pitch, also to be found on the project's Kickstarter page (click here) was created using vector avatars of the project members. Because we are a small group with limited resources, filming our pitch video was not a viable option. We used this to our advantage and vectorized ourselves to have our flapping heads give viewers the gist of our project.
Our 'Behind the Scenes' piece gives you a brief insight into what went into this project. There was a lot of script changes, a lot of re-records and even more fun.
There's something about t-shirts as a medium that inspires me. It not only invites one to create something fun (and possibly clever) but meaningful as well. I've tried to fulfill all these conditions in my designs and ideas here.
This design was what I submitted to a competition on Threadless.com, to create a t-shirt with Pixar's 'Toy Story' as the theme. My design was chosen among several others to be available on a custom order basis on threadless here.
The idea behind this design was to emulate ordinary 'exit' or 'stairs' signage found in most buildings everywhere. The ordinary source compliments the extraordinary content of this design which encourages everyone, no matter where you come from, to aim for the stars.
I grew up in India at a time when channels like 'MTV' and 'Channel V' actually were about music and not what they are now. This idea came to me whilst indulging in a moment of nostalgia looking up MTV's branding through the ages.
Those of you who grew up in India during the mid-90's will love the fact that this design is a cross between the only two popular music channels available in India (mentioned above) at that time. This design is available on a t-shirt among other things on society6. Click here to explore.
Another brilliant brain wave, if I say so myself. If you're a Star Wars fan, I'm sure you know the scene this design refers to. For those of you who are unfamiliar with star Wars, I'm referring to the famous canteena scene in 'A New Hope' where Han Solo shoots the bounty hunter. This design was my take on that scene, in t-shirt form.
While perusing thorough one of my old notebooks from college, I re-discovered this design and decided to bring it to life. This is a simple design I've had tucked away for many years. No deep meaning, no symbolism, no great insight. Just a wet Grizzly.
The original idea here had a very simplistic approach. Just one heart over the left side of the shirt (camera right) with the words 'You Are Here' right under it. But after careful consideration, I decided that this idea could be more.
This design was the conclusion I reached. Space, with its infinite stars was chosen as the backdrop with the words 'You Are Here', on the sleeve, like on a map. The 'You Are Here' dot, on the sleeve, that acted as the key to the map, was the same as every star in space, on the shirt.
