Creative Gaga - Issue 38

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Each year around this time, many fresh young talented designers come out as design graduates to join the best of studios and agencies. Despite many find the perfect fit for their talent but still majority faces many dilemmas and questions. So with this issue, we try to explore different views from many well-known studio owners and senior designers. While Anthony Lopez of Lopez Design shared tips on what a studio looks for in a designer, Mohar Ray from Codesign highlights the key aspects that play a significant role and make the difference in whether you are hired or not as a promising designer.

Also, this issue has an insightful article on ‘Branding with reason and love’ from Itu Chaudhry, founder ICD (Itu Chaudhry Design) along with Siddhi Ranade, explaining his tools of story telling through his unique style of illustrations. This issue is a must read for a talented graduate to a branding expert. Order you copy and enjoy reading it!

The Subject Of Man

A boy from a small village in Trivandrum, Kerala was so fascinated by Disney’s animated series that he began his career as an animator at the tender age of 19. Meet Sumeesh Chempoor who then went on to study at the Trivandrum Fine Arts College, which altered his entire perspective to art, the social and political issues, and of course his way of living.

1 min

Art As A Reflection

Suraj Kumar has been converting his abstract paintings into digital textures for his artworks. He believes that since art is no different than the artist himself, it is a practice of self-acceptance. Hence he captures the many thoughts or unseen realities that go through his mind onto his canvas.

1 min

Being Hip and Authentic

NH1 Design takes us through its approach behind freshly branding a local Indian street food outlet while ensuring that it retains an identity credible of being authentic, fun, young and affordable.

1 min

A Fusion Beat

Aman Rajwansh tells us about his own initiative of creating something that would draw the youth. Merging Indian and international characters with music as his natural line of display, producing artwork that fused the two.

1 min

Touch Of Aesthetics

Zooscope introduces its rather organised and meticulous approach at creating a holistically balanced and effective brand, Aromayur, for India’s leading perfumed incense company.

1 min

Tools Of Tale-Telling

Illustrator, Siddhi Ranade, takes us through his thought process and the key aspects that go into his illustrations. He, thereby, goes on to illuminate the various facets, such as geometry, colour and the nature of the subject; how they contribute to his work, and also why design needs to be time relevant in constantly modifying times.

2 mins

Your Playground

Visual artist, Manasi Parikh, expresses and exemplifies how one’s best nature automatically reflects in one’s work when it is an expression and extension of the true, inner-self.

2 mins

Branding With Reason And Love

Graphic designer, Itu Chaudhuri, lets out his experience and insight in the field of branding. He expresses what goes into creating effective brands, and the various aspects or elements that play a role in the process.

3 mins

Back Into The Future

Finding the modern in the ancient is a matter of vision and desire, to renew the old in such a way that is thoroughly transformed in not only its form and look, but its very fibre and perception. That is what illustrator Omar Gilani prefers to do through his rather fascinating interpretations.

2 mins

Clicking To Live Tunes

Technology Journalist, Abhimanyu Ghoshal, takes us through the essentials of clicking for Live music concerts, also its nitty-gritty and rather subtle aspects.

2 mins

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Creative Gaga is a knowledge-rich publication about the best in graphic design, animation, contemporary art and illustration. Unbiased, appreciative and focused, it is about the latest trends in the trade and expert-speak.