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
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Elements of Composition, NID-AP
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Communication graphics, NID-Haryana
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Visual Communication design courses, SCID-Coimbatore
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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.