Publication.. and style sheet design

A tabloid news paper layout and style sheet design.
An international politics tabloid. publication experience
from data till print..

crazy colors - experimenting with photocolors

Live project - Poster for D J Academy of design

more photographs @
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26272829@N07/
http://muthusblogspace.blogspot.com/

Love for autos...and elephants..

Dont miss the negative form within the autos....

trying out photo colors

Trying out photo colors

My other links :)

my photography
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26272829@N07/

my blog
http://muthusblogspace.blogspot.com/

the 'O' cult...

the 'O' cult company's t shirt..

Logo Design...
its the tamil letter 'O' with a fetus in the centre...
the logo is about birth/the beauty of creation.. in Tamil literature it is said that everything tht exists has born from the vibrations of the sound of 'o'...
its about the beautiful ability of a woman to give birth

Left is no less - a special skech pad

wen my right hand thumb was broken in 2007 after stopping a football from entering the goal post. thts when i started realizing skill s not in the hands but in the head..just took a few days for my brain to have good communication with my left hand.

i made this sketch book completely and painted it by my left hand..and half this book is left handed work - was good fun

my visting card :) .

Screen printing rocks

2 color screen print - experience at the print lab in college

The charsi effect - silk screen experience

Separating colors appropriately for screen printing usage. this one - a 5 color print

Graphics

Playing with Space and Form.. :) is fun

Character design of my BLOB & Fishes

Character design of my BLOB & Fishes for a completely imaginative world... i have designed a complete fantasy world. and the characters in it.

the image 1,2 - are rendered on corel painter - this is the final of a particular blob .

image 3 - are sketches for various blobs

image 4,5 - are fishes that live in the same locality of these blobs

img 4 - a stupid fish
img 5 - a mischievous fish

my life illustrated

Live project - visual identity

project : visual identity & branding
client : Vinitas Salon and Day spa
year : 2009

A complete visual identity and branding for Salon and Day spa at madurai, with research on
1- concept of beauty to - tamilians majorly
2- Other competitors and their strategies of Branding at Bangalore and Chennai

A custom font was specially designed for the brand(for logo).
Copy writing for all aplications in branding is included in the project..

Live Project : visual identity

project : visual identity & branding
client : Katri Salon and Day spa
year : 2010

Visual dentity and branding for an economical Salon and Day spa at madurai, with research on
1- concept of "what is inexpensive" to local people
2- the cost falling just above the cost range of local Barber shops - a research on local barber shops and the history of barbers of tamil nadu..
(the research was in colaboration with a designer from madurai - Mr. Praveen Kumar )

the research was very interesting... we were able to collect valuable data from the old barbers from the villages in and around madurai.

the style of motifs are from the style of line graphics we find in local barber shops done by themselves...

Live project - Invitation cards and catologues for a series of paintings By artist Arivuchelvan

project : Catalogues & invitations
client : Mr. Arivuchelvan (artist)
year : 2009

It was fun designing these Catalogues and invitations for solo art shows for a series of paintings by an artist...
in the series of paintings the artist introspects himself and looks into himself n various aspects that drive him to be wat he is..

img 1 - the Catalongue is such that when its picked in folded condition u see the way it is in here

then it opens up to be img 2. the 'i' stays the same through out.
when folde introspecting from inside and when opened u see introspection on outside..

img 3 - back of catalogue

img 4 - invitation