Sunandini Banerjee completed her Masters in English Literature from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, in 2000 and joined Seagull Books as an editorial assistant. It was her first encounter with the world of publishing and with the world of computers. Along with proofreading and copyediting, she began to explore page layouts and pagesetting and then, gradually, cover designs for Seagull Books titles. Unable to draw in real life, she found the combination of scanner and Photoshop and QuarkXpress a hugely liberating experience. In 2003 she designed her first Seagull Books catalogue, a showcase of not only Seagull’s titles but also an ambassador of its belief in great design and high quality production. She is now both Senior Editor and Senior Graphic Designer, and designs all of Seagull’s books, book covers and catalogues. This is her second exhibition. Works from her first show, The Art of the Book, are available online here.

Why are you an artist?
I am not an ‘artist’ in the sense of waking up every morning and painting or creating something because that is what I do as a career. I don’t. I come to work. And my work happens to be very close to play. I am very rooted in the books. I was an editor and translator first. Then a designer. (Now, I’m all of them simultaneously and boy, are some days rough!) All of this creativity is happening from the books. From the language. From the text. One book may make me explode into six collages, another into three. Each of the collages is sourced from a book or a text to which I responded. I am as attracted to language as I am to pictures. Both are my passion. And my art lets me bring the two together into some semblance of beauty.
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Nithin is an illustrator based in Bangalore. He does illustrations for many advertising agencies and publishers. He has also worked as an art director in leading advertising agencies. Why are you an Illustrator? It’s a fun thing for me. Even though I started my career as an art-director, becoming an illustrator was my aim. Did you attend school for fine art or design? Yes. I studied in Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, and got BFA in applied arts. You have a distinct style of illustration. How long did it take you to develop your style? It’s hard to say how much time it takes. I’ve been sketching and painting even before I joined school. I myself didn’t realise how I got here. It’s like how DiCaprio explains in the movie Inception “you never remember where the dream begins. You just know where you are now”. (more…)

A little about yourself:
Nash Paul is a Freelance Graphic and Web Designer from Mumbai. He is  beginning to prefer muesli over cornflakes.

Why are you a Designer?
I remember the first time i saw Macromedia Flash interface and fell in love. It just happened. Before that point, I wanted to open a music shop.

Did you attend school for fine art or design?
Neither. Computer Engineering from Loni, Maharashra.

You have a distinct style of Design. How long did it take you to develop your style?
No I don’t think I have a distinct style. I feel like each of my styles have been derived from the huge number of visual influences around.

Were there any particular role models for you when you grew up?
Bruce Willis in Die Hard, yipee ki yay!

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a little about yourself:
am a rain lover.
and i love all smallcaps.

why are you an illustrator?
as a kid, my ma never stopped me from drawing on our house walls – they were covered with my scribbles till my height , then paper – diaries, notebooks and even chemistry assignments were littered with my art, then art school (where my professor actually failed me in illustration subject because i just wouldn’t do the done thing), followed by advertising – where i met many similar bump-heads who enjoyed and recognized my talent. basically, i’ve continued spilling my head out on all kinds of surfaces, steel cupboards included!

i find healing, expression, madness and myself in my illustrations.

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Hello.
I’m Radha Ramachandran, a twenty-something illustrator and print designer based in Bangalore.
Being kind of an introvert, I’m generally not a person of many words (Well, except when I’ve got my talking hat on, in which case, I’ll talk your ear off).
When I’m not illustrating (either for a client or for myself) or trying to figure stuff out, I can be found surfing the internet, watching movies, listening to music, reading books, re-reading my favourite books, generally day-dreaming and bullying my four year old Labrador, Leo.

Oh, and I’m also known as ‘Ratlion’, which is the name I blog under over at ‘Ratlion’s Den’.

Why are you an Illustrator?
‘Cos most days, illustrating doesn’t really feel like ‘work’. Even if I weren’t illustrating professionally, I’d still be illustrating for myself.

Did you attend school for fine art or design?
I have a Bachelors in Business Management, and a one year P.G.Diploma in Visual Communication.
When I decided to switch fields after graduation, I didn’t really have any definitive goals of becoming an illustrator. All I knew was that I wanted to pursue a career in art or design. I knew next to nothing about the industry and wasn’t sure if I even had the necessary skills to back my interest, so I opted to go in for some kind of formal training. But I would say that my illustration skills have more or less been self-taught. Most of what I know, I’ve learnt by simply ‘doing’.

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A little about yourself
I’m Satish G,  illustrator and concept artist. I’m specialized in illustration, concept art and graphic designer. My passion for illustration, comics, graphic novels and all kind of visual art shaped up my professional carrier.

Why are you an Illustrator?
“Life” is such a wonderful  thing.  Everything a creature does, is because it has this life factor dwelling in it.  And every form of life looks like a miracle to me.  The facial expressions, color, the postures , the shapes of each being is so special  and I have become addicted of playing around the above factors with my imaginations and pencil for my tools. That’s why I am an illustrator.

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A little about yourself. Why are you an Illustrator?
I’d call myself a visual artist, illustrator, designer and director of animation. I’ve always liked to sketch, scribble, make flip-books out of maths textbook, collect magazine cutouts, create scrapbooks, make weird characters with collage, get my hands dirty with my fav green sketch-pen and basically create images, some that are still, some that move. I realize I’m doing the same things now, in a different context, on a different scale, and varied mediums. Yeah, and seafood, beer, music does help.

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