Art by Aarohi

Arati’s Portrait

aarohi — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:10:03 +0000

My friend Arati. This portrait is done in acrylics and is approx. 10×16 inches.

Flattery

aarohi — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:12:23 +0000

They say imitation is the best form of flattery. Well, I guess then I am flattered. Need I say more?

Anju’s Portrait

aarohi — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:29:59 +0000

My friend Anju. I did this as a birthday gift for her. This portrait is done in acrylics and is approx. 10×16 inches.

Workshop with CKS

aarohi — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:12:30 +0000

On august 13th 2009, I participated in a workshop for Center for Knowledge Societies (CKS), a design research and innovation firm based in Delhi and Bangalore. The project was for a very popular brand of wall emulsions and paints- their 2010 catalogue. For NDA purposes I am as yet not allowed to disclose the specific names. But, I am working on that!!

“The catalogue” 2010, is an annual color forecast study conducted by CKS Consulting for the said paint brand. In this research CKS interacts with various individuals related to different fields of design. They invite design professionals to participate in a collaborative workshop with CKS and a specialized color team to review a mix of new visual data. Based on this review, the designers work with the CKS team to generate various themes that may emerge and with the assistance of the color consultant to define these themes with associative color palettes as well. In these workshops, six design professionals are invited at a time either from the same or varied discipline in order to create a collaborative atmosphere where creations of each designer is peer reviewed and finessed in the course of the workshop. The purpose of these interactions is to understand what inspires these designers to create the themes they choose and how they translate a concept into an actual theme with thoughts around color, material and forms. In order to try an learn about the various societal factors, design trends and influences which these designers choose to represent in their themes. The outcomes of these collaborative workshops are analyzed for how the themes have been built, recurrences and deviations and key design influencers in terms of color, form and material for the interiors industry for the upcoming year.

Needless to say, it was great fun to do and also a wonderful learning experience. I leave you with a few images from the workshop.

P.s- It’s Asian Paints and their ColourNext 2010 Catalogue.

CD Cover Art

aarohi — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:53:44 +0000

Amith A. Nadig – was born into a family of musicians, and started his initial training in flute under his father Shri B.K. Anantharam at the tender age of four. Amith gave his first performance at the age of ten. A regular performer at the Thyagaraja Aradhana at Thiruvayyur, Amith has so far given hundreds of recitals and has won many prizes, awards and scholarships including the central government scholarship by CCRT.

On the 13th of November Amith launched his new album. And I had the wonderful opportunity to design the artwork and cover for the CD. I also got to go the launch. My friend Roopa Pai accompanied me. It’s a good thing too… as the whole event was in Kannada and I don’t understand Kannada! Roopa ( thank god for her) translated and told me when to go up on stage and all that.

Mahaprana

Roopa is an author and has recently released her new childrens book- The Taranauts.
Taranauts is an eight-part fantasy adventure series for 8-10 year olds written by Roopa Pai and published by Hachette India Children’s Books. Do visit her site and have a look see.

Communication 360

aarohi — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:37:36 +0000

I got a call a few days ago asking me to judge an all India inter-college competition on Communication Design. Imagine my surprise and delight! I said YES. Of course.
The rest as they say is history. It has been a wonderful few days. I am amazed at the talent out there. To see the degree of detail and thought that young college kids can come up with. Some of the participants had never even heard the term Communication Design.
Oh, and I also had to speak for ten minutes on ‘Art as communication’. Which I did. Though it was a bit more then ten minutes. It was a load of fun with a lot of audience participation.

I was certainly in august company. My fellow panalists/jury and speakers were-

‘Communication Marries Technology’
Sandhya Prasad, President, STC (India)
Director of Information Development, BEA / Oracle Systems

‘Communication in a multi-cultural context’
Arundhati Ghosh
Founder, India Foundation for the Arts & Lead India Campaign participant

‘Communication as an Employability Enhancer’
Prof Pankaj Gupta
Director, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (Bangalore)
Former Prof at IIM-K and IMT,
Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar, Ohio State Univ & University of Washington
(Unfortunately, he was unable to make it for the event)

I almost forgot to mention the contest itself. To design a poster, brochure and user guide for the Apple ipod touch. And yes, the winning team got one for each participant as the grand prize!! Boy, were they over the moon.
You can read about it here and here.

The event was organised and hosted by ‘The writers Block’

In Metromela.com

aarohi — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:12:14 +0000

“Innovative designers in Bangalore – There are limitless possibilities to design innovations. And Bangalore’s creative lot of designers find inspiration in myriad things like traditions and beliefs to textiles, trees and discarded materials. MetroMela profiles four designers across Bangalore who believe in doing stuff that’s different from run of the mill…. ”

Thank you to Reshmi for writing such a wonderful piece on my work in Metromela.com. You can read it the entire article here.

Colour for- The Key Bunch

aarohi — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:44:09 +0000

Hi, and Happy Diwali everyone.
Rekha and Sharon from ‘The Key Bunch’ asked if I would do a guest post as part of their one year anniversay celebrations, I said yes immediately. Now, having said yes, I found myself clueless as to the topic for the post!! So, since I am an artist and I have never done a step by step demo so far, thats what I decided to do.
Here is the finished painting. Its in Pen and Ink and a little bit of Acrylics thrown in. To see the stages, you need to go to www.thekeybunch.com

Just the two of us

Let me know if you want me to do more such demonstrations.

In Delhi

aarohi — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:19:14 +0000

I am happy to say, my work is in Delhi for the next couple of weeks.

Nazar Battoo Kettle

It will be available at-

Maximum Store Pvt. Ltd.,
5-J/1, Ground floor, Shahpur Jat,
New Delhi – 110049
t: +91 11 26493150, 46168026m: +91 98183 18196
e: communicate@themaximumstore.com

Do drop in if you have time.

In Kolkatta

aarohi — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:41:39 +0000

I am happy to be participating in a three day exhibition in Kolkatta. This venture is in association with F.U.S.S.

My work wil be available at-

The Amoda Spa Bar,
22 Camac Steet ( behind Pantaloons),
Kolkatta.

From 11am to 11pm.
6th, 7th and 8th Oct 2009.

Do drop in if you are anywhere close.