AT A GLANCE

Vani

Designer

Area of Practice: Visual art, Illustration, Brand design and Art direction

Vani is a visual artist, illustrator, and brand designer. She loves to draw and often lets herself come alive and dance on the paper to express her thoughts through drawing. Her work is a culmination of words and images that bring narratives to life. She graduated from the National Institute of Design with a degree in Communication Design and also holds a diploma in Fine Arts. Vani has worked with startup brands like The Ayurveda Experience and Tooliqa, based out of Gurgaon, where she art-directed and created brands from scratch. She loves to experiment with unique graphic styles to give new brands a distinct identity. Vani loves to weaves stories on topics that are often ignored or misunderstood, and needs a voice, her work blends words and images, crafting powerful, bold narratives to life having a tinge of activism and rebel. She is an aspiring Author-illustrator with a love of drawing and crafting graphic narratives.

EDUCATION

  • Bachelors in Communication Design (National Institute of Design, Andhra Pradesh)

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Multimedia designer (freelance)
  • Creative designer, Art direction at The Ayurveda experience
  • Visual designer lead, Tooliqa Innovations
  • Asst Professor, Sasi creative school of design
  • Visited faculty, National Institute of design-India

INTEREST AREAS

  • Illustration
  • Visual memories
  • Comics and Graphic Novels
  • Packaging design
  • Branding and graphic design
  • Contemporary art
  • Drawing and painting
  • Media art
  • Film making
  • Experimental animation

CURRENT PRACTICE AT SRISHTI

Facilitating Visual Communication design courses in BVOC, Foundation program and GADP

TEACHING PORTFOLIO

  • Elements of Composition, NID-AP
  • Communication graphics, NID-Haryana
  • Visual Communication design courses, SCID-Coimbatore
  • Visual communication design courses, SMI-Bangalore

CREATIVE PRACTICE & OUTREACH

My practice is in painting, drawing, experimental animation, illustration, branding and graphic design. and Illustrating Children’s books/Publications.

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