Work Experience

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Independent Design Consultant Nov 2023 - Present

Delivered illustration, brand identity, and visual design projects for clients across tech, FMCG, and publishing, including Upstox and Mars Chocolate.
Illustrated graphic novels and international children's books.

Visiting Faculty École Intuit.Lab - Oct 2022 - Feb 2024

Designed and delivered courses on storytelling, comics and illustration to design students over a 2-year visiting faculty engagement, covering narrative, structured sequential art and communication design.

Senior Illustrator Beem US (Fintech) - May 2023 - Nov 2023

Created illustration assets supporting Beem’s product experience across app and marketing surfaces. Designed the new onboarding experience, using illustrations.

Design Manager PepsiCo - Feb 2023 - May 2023

Designing and leading a team of designers for Pepsico India’s Packaging Design team.

Senior Illustrator Bijak (Agri-tech) - Mar 2021 - Dec 2022

Led and partnered with product and engineering teams to build a scalable illustration library for Bijak, India's leading agri-tech marketplace app, covering multiple languages, geographies, and commodities. A reusable, multi use-case illustration system. Featured in Bijak’s engineering blog - Indianizing the Indian Agriculture

Senior Art Director Cheil Worldwide - Jun 2019 - Mar 2021

Led creative direction for Samsung illustration campaigns, including SSD product-launch illustrations adapted into Samsung’s official yearly calendar.
Directed and mentored a cross functional creative team, managed and designed concept to delivery for a digital sticker pack on the Samsung Galaxy Note10 launch, used across social platforms.

Creative Head Dot Studios - July 2018 - June 2019

Designed an educational kit for undertrials in Tihar Jail, to help them get employment after their period of reformation, took art and poetry classes with them as well.
Helped various small scale F&B Businesses with Brand Development.
Illustrated and Designed the launch campaign for Rasna Buzz.
Helped with Designing campaigns for in-house fashion brand Turn Black.

**Illustrator **Animal Advertising - Dec 2016 - Feb 2018

Worked on Branding, Art Direction and Illustration for Google, Nike, Amnesty, Keventers, Emoi, H&M and One Plus.

Copywriter Trainee DDB Mudra - June 2015 - Nov 2015

Trained in copywriting. Clients - Volkswagen, ICICI, E-zone, Maharashtra Tourism. </aside>

Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts

Sub Category: Applied Arts with specialization in Illustration

Rachana Sansad College of Arts & Craft, University of Mumbai 2012-2015

Sub Category: Applied Arts with specialization in Illustration

College of Fine Art, University of Agra 2026-2028