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Hello! Here are some of my recent projects that I have enjoyed working on. I hope you enjoy going through them. Let me know if you have any questions at samiasingh@gmail.com
RESEARCH DESIGN:
UK & China based research on international students and their views on online learning during the Pandemic in UK Universities
The impact of an illustrated report vs plain text is incomparable. The reader is able to digest the information in well designed sections and pages at a pace which is engaging. Here are some of the findings from the pandemic in the context of online teaching by UK universities.
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This report is based on the research conducted by Dr. Cristina Costa, Durham University, UK & Dr. Huaping Li, Shanghai Normal University, China, funded by the British Academy Small Grants.
The strategy of moving teaching and learning provision to online environments during the pandemic has been the largest, quickest and longest transition to digital education on-campus universities have experienced to date.
PACKAGING DESIGN
I love the textures and the personality that analog techniques such as printmaking and painting bring to packaging. Colours have always been fascinating to me - from mixing them on a palette to choosing the right colour code for a packaging design. I have been looking at drawings and beautifully packaged things all my life, where do the two meet? Here's some work I did for No. 3 Clive Road as their Creative Director in New Delhi from 2016-2018. My responsibilites included creating the packaging designs, finding and doing the art direction with collaborators as well as doing the photo shoots for the luxury tea brand.
Mahabalipuram candle for No. 3 Clive Road
Diwali gifting for No. 3 Clive Road
LUXURY CANDLES
Design & product development are eternal companions. I was responsible as part of a team to research scents and stories about ancient temple towns of India to develop unique fragnances and evocative imagery that would bring a moment of calm to the user. I developed the packaging after creating the artworks in watercolour and acrylic on bigger scales than the box so that the detail would be emphasised in the candles' packaging designs.
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DESIGN FOR RESEARCH
I love new information. The latest studies, the findings of your recent data or the breaking down of recipe ingredients. I have always drawn in the back of my books when I was trying to understand something better at school. I am a natural visualiser and have always imagined detailed images and movies in my head when stories are being told. I am here to visualise any ideas you might want to share with your audience in any format that fits the context. I am comfortable between both analog and digital media and am lucky to have international cutting edge colleagues who come in for the projects where we want to expand the limits of animation, sound and motion graphics. This is the stuff I live for! Exciting!
ILLUSTRATED REPORT & BOOK DESIGN FOR UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE, GLASGOW.
Feminism in Our Times: Crises, Connections & Cares. The provocation to think 'in our times', often becomes an anticipation of certain,better, fairer futures beyond the times – and places – we currently inhabit. In this illustrated collection, contributors write in urgent times, presenting feminist insistences, which are still felt and held close. These times might not be 'ours' at all, still subject to insecurity despite all feminist work, pushed back into precarity, seen as out-of-time and place. Here, singular, plural, possessive, and collective intermingle in the illustration and designing of feminism – and feminism in our times.
INFOGRAPHIC & RESEARCH DESIGN
Illustrated timeline of UK's LGBTQI+ legislation, for CILIA
ILLUSTRATED POSTCARDS: ESTRANGED STUDENTS OUTREACH FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE, GLASGOW.
ILLUSTRATED POSTER: FESTIVAL DESIGN, JAPAN.
Call for research interviewees, University of Strathclyde, Scotland.
ILLUSTRATED REPORT & ANIMATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND.
The Red & Gold Pen is an illustrated book to communicate the findings of researcher Lauren Wilks (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) in collaboration with Anchita Ghatak of Parichiti, a women’s organisation that works for the rights of domestic workers (Kolkata, India) and Supurna Banerjee.
This story draws on knowledge and experience shared by fourteen domestic workers as part of a collaborative storyboarding workshop in Kolkata in January 2020. The story also draws more broadly on Lauren and Supurna’s research, and Parichiti’s experience supporting domestic workers. It highlights the daily negotiations that are involved in commuting for paid domestic work in Kolkata/India. The workshop and wider project were funded as part of a UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship held by Lauren at the University of Edinburgh. Animation by Rishabh Arora
ILLUSTRATED POSTERS: FESTIVAL DESIGN, PREET NAGAR, PUNJAB, INDIA.
ILLUSTRATED COMIC BOOK FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND.
Part of an illustrated economic web report on women's employment in India for Trayas, Bangalore..
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Product Design/Packaging Design/Branding
I love the immediacy of analog techniques. I have been looking at drawings and beautifully packaged things all my life, where do the two meet? Here's some work I did for Door to Asia, Japan, Preet Nagar Residency's Mela and No. 3 Clive Road, New Delhi, India.
Logotype for India Design Forum Awards, 2019
Design x craft, Creative Interruptions festival, British Film Institute, London
Design x craft, Creative Interruptions festival, British Film Institute, London
Post it mural for Hakoneyama festival, part of the Sanriku International Arts festival. Japan 2019
Post it mural for Hakoneyama festival, part of the Sanriku International Arts festival 2019
Poster illustration for Hakoneyama festival, Japan
Branding and concept development for a community centre in Japan. Door to Asia 2018
Community programs in the form of passports for families, tourists and children. Door to Asia, Japan, 2018
Passport details_childrensprogram
Tote bag for Takata Republic, Japan
Postcard for Takata Republic
Photo styling
Weekly photo shoots for No. 3 Clive Road, where I worked as their Creative Director from 2016-18.
Posters
Posters usually made for myself, and for festivals!
After
Hang Loose, stress kills
Guard your Dreams
Dont try, do.
Drifting
Sketchbook
Sketchbook
Keep your Selves intact
Poster for Door to Asia's fesJapan
Poster for Mela, Preet Nagar Residency 2019
Character design | Comic books | Storyboarding
As a visual person, every description keeps adding to the characters and the places that are written about. Research and stories are easier to relate to with emotive content.
Printmaking
While travelling, in quiet moments, sometimes even in the midst of total chaos - new ideas come and fly past one's head. This is seconds we are talking about. Then they are gone forever! A part of being an illustrator and designer is to keep catching the good ones and releasing the not so good ones. These are then written about, thought about, researched about, drawn about. Then turned into a final iteration or two. A part of my personal practise is printmaking. Solitude, friendship, time, fear and nature are common themes that I often find myself thinking about and exploring in my work. Here's some of it:
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Each of these is an edition print, which means that after the mentioned number of prints has been hand printed on wet paper using the age old hand rolled printing press, the zinc/copper/wood block or plate that the artwork was created on has been destroyed and this artwork can never be recreated again.
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Girl with Guitalele, edition of 12. INR 15,000, A3 size
Girl with Guitalele, edition of 12. INR 15,000, A3 size
Lady Next door (detail) (Etching edition of 10, Florence 2012) INR 15,000. Size: 10 x 15 cm, 2 plates printed on the same paper)
Lady Next door (detail) (Etching edition of 10, Florence 2012) INR 15,000 Size: 10 x 15 cm, 2 plates printed on the same paper)
Lady Next door (Etching edition of 10, Florence 2012) INR 15,000, Size: 10 x 15 cm, 2 plates printed on the same paper)
Firenze by Night ( Etching edition of 20, Florence, 2012) INR 15,000. Size 35 x 35 cm
Storm in Guwahati (Etching edition of 10, Baroda, 2013) INR 25,000 Size 70 x 100 cm
Once upon a time in Kodaikanal (Etching edition of 10, Baroda, 2012) INR 10,000, set of two A4 size plates printed side by side.
Exploring the North East ( Etching edition of 10, Baroda, 2013) INR 15,000. Size 50 x 70 cm
Lessons from the deep 1 (Etching edition of 10, Baroda 2013) INR 5000, A3 size
Lessons from the deep 2 (Etching edition of 10, Baroda 2013) INR 5000, A3 size
Sketching for an artwork (Chandigarh 2012)
Intent ( Woodcut edition of 10, Baroda 2013) INR 5000, A3 size
Propelled by Sleep (Woodcut with handpainted blue, edition of 10, Baroda) INR 10,000, A3 size
The Storms Within, Firenze 2012. Edition of 15. INR 15,000. Sold Out
Editorial Illustrations
Illustration for Huffington Post - India's fitness apps are exploiting workers and users, 2019 #dataeconomy
Illustration for Huffington Post -Selling your health data #dataeconomy
Illustrations for Huffington Post - Ai spying on app worker
Illustration for Huffington Post - Data worker #dataeconomy
Illustration for Huffington Post - Incomprehensible and endless Privacy Policies that you have no option but to sign #dataeconomy
Illustration for Huffington Post - College graduates monitoring your food intake #dataeconomy
Innocence, a mother speaks of her son in kindergarten and how the bullies hame emerged already.
Dreams make the subconcious visible.
Healing, a mother speaks of her disabled child and how when all his friends leave for university she sees that she will be taking care of him here.
Siblings
Taking all his secrets with him. A communist grandfather who worked on many top secret government posts has dies and the grandson knows nothing of his life.
Sinking
The accident. A friend speaks of her father's accident after which nothing remained the same.
Space. A Muslim woman finds solace in the Hijab and she feels it shelters her and leaves her to her own space.
Happiness. High risks need to be taken sometimes for being happy.
Dreaming of Flying
Dreamwalker.
A woman in an Indian city
The Animal People
An ongoing project using little ceramic beings who will be participating in an important discussion in the future.
Postcards
Film
When my grandfathers passed away, at the funeral I heard all these amazing stories about them and their lives which I wish I had known while they were alive so we could talk about them more! This made me want to document stories of my grandmothers before they would be gone forever too. This film has my grandmothers speak about one profound experience that shaped them. They both passed away a few years after these interviews but we had a film screening with both of them present with friends and family and I will always be thankful for that memory.
Animation
An exploratory animation on the theme of love, made as a meditation to works of the poet Kabir
Book design
Publishing design, book covers, album covers and the smell of freshly printed ink!
