2D: Image representation

This portfolio showcases a diverse collection of visual designs and illustrations, encompassing my coursework, freelance endeavors, and personal projects, predominantly completed during my academic journey.

poster making in the style of art nouveau

The poster below was designed to promote a play titled "Imaginative" by Antonin Artaud. In order to pay homage to the playwright and match the Art Nouveau aesthetics of the theatre, the poster was also created in the Art Nouveau style.

EXPERIMENTAL TYPOGRAPHY: GREEN #MYTYPE

GREEN #mytype is a living installation that combined experimental typography with sustainability and expressed progress and growth as it was changing over the course of the event. It was made to represent farmers and their immerse contribution to the nation's progress. The installation captured the slow process of nurturing small seeds into saplings and then into living, breathing plants.

The seeds used were rai (mustard) and ragi (millet), two of the most commonly used plants in Indian food.

Mustard seeds were used as spices, as oil and seeds themselves could be fried to be used as a seasoning. Ragi can be ground into flour or fermented into a drink.

Team

Anagha | Jessica | Nimir | Samadrita | Yugandhara

EXPERIMENTing with images

As we are invaded by a flood of images, constantly, and daily. We archive quantities of images taken with our phone, found online, or cut out from magazines. The high-low culture cross-pollinates, mixes, memory, and overlap. During the Workshop by Visual Artists Rejane Lhote and Jennifer Abessira, I investigated an atlas of images, visited the past, saw through the eye of the present, projecting in the future. Day by day, I counted, sorted out, scanned, analyzed, classified, saved, filed, and indexed pieces of a puzzle. Made connections between images seen for the first time or images looked at again, I tried to grasp things in their entirety but likely, I found instead glimpses or flashes of unexpected revelations, which trigger the desire to explore further through images.

The image presented below represents a collage, composed of fragments of imagery, drawn from the rich and vibrant landscape of my dreams, as recorded in my Dream Journal.

The image below provides a thought-provoking take on the consequences of deforestation if the roles were reversed, and humans were subject to the same fate.

visualiZing beck’s everlasting nothing via screen printing

In my interpretation of the song, I envision a solitary traveler in a vast and limitless landscape, yet burdened with a sense of emptiness. The song’s psychedelic and country undertones complement this melancholic atmosphere.

To bring this visualization to life, I decided to create a depiction of a lonesome cowboy wandering aimlessly in a world of infinite possibilities, forever pursuing an unattainable goal symbolized by a Golden Sun.

CREATING AN AMBIGRAM OF MY NAME:

If you flip the artboard upside down, you will still read the same, For this ambigram, I used my own name “Nimir Singh Kuntia”

Posters and animation made for covid-19 campaign

In the midst of COVID-19, I submitted some posters and a short animated video for the IIT campus focusing on social distancing and dealing with anxiety caused by COVID-19. The project was guided by Prof. Prasad Bokhil.

Animated Video is available here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/71238097/Coping-up-with-COVID-19-Anxiety

a2 sized commdesign workshop poster

In preparation for an on-campus workshop, I faced the challenge of transforming a 4-page document into an A2-sized poster that effectively conveyed all the necessary information. To accomplish this task, I grouped the information and arranged it based on a hierarchy of importance. I also followed the principles of Gestalt to ensure that the poster had a clear and cohesive design. The end result was a poster that effectively communicated the key details of the workshop in an aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-understand format.

Packaging illustration for a board game: farmoney!

Farmoney! is an engaging and educational board game designed to introduce kids to the fundamental concepts of loans and interest, all while having fun playing as farmers aiming to earn the most money. As part of the design team, I had the pleasure of creating the packaging illustration for this innovative game.

peer teaching infographic for an ngo

I was commissioned to design an infographic that highlights the remarkable progress that occurs when children are taught by their peers. The organization provided the source material, and I transformed the data into a visually engaging and informative infographic.

animated music video of nirvana’s tourette’s

The music video was made as a part of an animation course at Holon Institute of Technology, Israel where the final assignment was to make an explicit music video. The Song chosen was Nirvana's Tourette's.

The video is showcased through the eyes of a girl who feels constantly surrounded by disorder and trouble. As she navigates a world that seems to be against her, she eventually realizes that embracing the disorder around her can lead to a newfound sense of acceptance and empowerment and once she learns to dance with the chaos, the chaos dances with her.

raven: an Action based cathartic Series

Raven was my personal project to create a manga-inspired comic and animation franchise with a focus on action, This project was done after graduating from high school.