ROHIT SONI

Portfolio

The project aims at how emerging artists perceive the ongoing exhibitions at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. I chose western art, focusing on European art at the Mallett Gallery. My work focused on perceiving western art from eastern and colonial perspectives. To understand the motivation depicted in the paintings, like ships sailing with high flags of pride, to analyze the demeanor of the busts of the prominent historical figures. This project is still a work in progress.

July 2022. Oxford UK.

Doodle Kit Project is a comprehensive set of products that helps one get started (and get better) with doodling and use it as one of the most powerful tools for creativity and focus. Not restricted to any age group, it comes with a unique instruction manual and a set of doodle accessories to get anyone started right away. The exercises are designed to stimulate the mind with new ideas and spark new imagination for doodling.

2018. India.

Visual Harvesting - Capturing Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's town hall meeting.

Visual Harvesting engages the audience by converting the abstract information around us into stories, numbers into graphic symbols, doodles, and typography & characters. It is usually done live to capture the essence of the conference into a structured visual narrative memoir in real time.

July 2017. Microsoft HQ India

During the election year, I truly realized the power of art to connect with the masses and its role in strengthening democracy. Here I am, Visually harvesting in front of a vast crowd to amplify the messages of democratic values and the foundations of India, like secularism, equality, and free speech, to etch it in the audience’s mind.

2019. Pune.

Studio Kilab is a multidisciplinary creative studio based in Kashmir exploring crafts, food, and sustainable living. The state of Kashmir is of unique importance to me because of its geopolitics and unrest in the past. The one-month residency was focused on conducting art workshops for the local community, doing live art in front of them, and learning from the local artisans like woodworkers and Pashmina weavers, their skills of intricacy and consistency.

May-June 2022. Jammu and Kashmir, India.

The restless energy of creative mind - Artwork for MTV Indies.

2017. Mumbai.

Interactive visual harvesting at TEDx Women, Hyderabad. I delivered a talk and encouraged the attendees to use simple art forms in their life as a tool for ideation, conceptualization, and conversations.

2016. Hyderabad.

I was invited to India Comic Con as an artist to visualize the journey of stories from the ancient Indian sub-continent to contemporary culture. The aim was to make the young audience aware of the moral stories from the Indian subcontinent in a live and engaging way.

2015. New Delhi.

The process of Ideation and iterations to simplify the visual message

The final product aspires to create awareness about trees and the environment taking inspiration from Indian mythology, with a seed embedded at the bottom

The product design project was conceptualized to add emotional value to the mundane object around us, a tissue dispenser box. Tissues are printed with the patterns of a traditional Indian saree border at the edges, a gentle reminder about how we were kept tidy by our mothers during childhood.

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