Akanksha is a freelance illustrator and a graphic designer who's currently looking for interesting creative projects to collaborate on. She is an alumni of Goldsmiths University of London where she did her Masters in Children's Literature: Children's Book Illustration. She also holds a BFA degree in Applied Arts where she studied graphic design and branding for over 4 years.
Her versatile approach works to her advantage as it has helped her create a different visual style for every project of hers, each having its own visual appeal. Her work is colourful, narrative and detail-oriented.
Projects
- Movie Clichés We're Sick Of In 2024It's a concept that's been sitting in my idea book for ages. I love understanding the world through cinema so I couldn't help but notice a bunch of redundant clichés across various movies that the audiences are bored of. This is an editorial piece (in a New Yorker Magazine format) that highlights a few of these tropes and pushes us to seriously write/consume new ones
- Children's Book IllustrationAkanksha Parulekar is a London-based illustrator who has a background in graphic design. Most of the illustrations attached here are a part of her MA Children's Literature: Children's Book Illustration course from Goldsmiths University of London. Her work is versatile, narrative and detail-oriented. She brings out strong colour palettes and includes pop-culture references in most of her personal work. She aims to provide humour and comfort through her work. Having studied BFA in Commercial Arts
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Work history
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Senior IllustratorSwiggy
IndiaFull Time
- producing original illustrated assets that include offline, app, social media and other digital channels
- ensuring alignment of the proposed visual solutions as per brand guidelines and in accordance with the brand personality right from the early stages
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ArtistKoko Art Studio
London, United KingdomFull Time
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Skills
- Typography
- Illustration
- Book Illustrations
- Character Illustration
- Childrens Illustration
- Commissioning Illustration
- Digital Illustration
- Copywriting
- Adobe Photoshop
- Branding Design
Education
MA Children's Literation Children's IllustrationGoldsmiths, University of London
London, United Kingdom
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BFA Applied ArtRachana Sansad College of Applied Arts & Craft
- Mumbai, India
BFA Applied Arts course where I intensively studied graphic design and branding for four years and majored in Illustration.
Awards
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Cub Illustrator of the YearCAG Communication Arts Guild
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Cub Copywriter of the YearCAG Communication Arts Guild
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