My Philosophy

In a Nutshell

I believe in Simplicity

All my life, I’ve searched for clarity. Not just in design, but in everything. When things are simple, they breathe. Maybe I learned that from my mentors, who showed me that good design doesn’t need to shout to be heard. And those who listen can definitely feel it.

I believe in Being Nice

It sounds small, doesn’t it? But being nice is radical. It makes interactions lighter, ideas flow easier and the process feel human. I try to carry it in how I listen, how I speak, and how I design. The world already has enough noise, I’d rather add a little warmth.

I believe in Subtlety

Meaning can be functional or aesthetic and can lie in the smallest of things. The way you see, touch, and feel the finer details, often without even realising it – is what gives design its meaning. If something I create makes you pause, smile, or feel understood, then that is enough for me.

Masters at IDC
& AIR 1 in CEED 2024

I’m currently studying Interaction Design at IDC, IIT Bombay. I’ve always been curious about computers and computing, and often wondered how we humans can work such complex systems with ease. IDC has definitely fed that curiosity, but it has also taken it in directions I didn’t expect.

Design here goes beyond making things work or look good into understanding why things are the way they are, and what they could be instead. The discussions, readings, and studio work constantly push me to engage with design as something that shapes relationships and behaviours, and to reflect on the role designers play in that process.

IDC has taught me what it means to be a designer, and what it means to think and innovate. Courses like Interaction Techniques and Human Factors helped me understand the foundations of interaction design.

But courses like Theoretical Perspectives, Design Fiction, & Service Design opened up worlds I hadn’t encountered before; about philosophy, ethics, systems and imagination. That’s something I haven’t seen many other design schools in India explore with such seriousness.

2024-2026

Internship at Adobe

I spent my time with the amazing illustrator team. Here I did extensive qualitative studies and found systemic level insights on AI user needs for the mainstream creative cloud product used by millions around the world.

My conceptual redesign was well received by both the engineering and design teams, and it eventually made its way into the development pipeline for the following year.

I was lucky to have some incredible mentors there who shaped how I think about collaboration and scale in design. Working with that team was one of the most inspiring parts of my journey. Their openness and approach to design and life taught me as much as any project could.

Summer of 2025

Goan work-cation
at AlterType & BNT

I was doing 3 of my favourite things in life. Designing typefaces, Graphic design for big brands and going to beaches. Good friends, great teams and amazingly tasty Goan Thali everyday.

Here I worked on the Tamil version of a typeface launched on Type network. Not to mention, I got to work with big brands like Reliance, Yezdi and Chalet Hotels. For a rookie graphic designer, I got to work on a lot of Yezdi’s ride events, setting the tone and language for entire events. This is something I’m proud of a lot.

2023-2024

Associate Type designer
at Tamil Type Foundry

The typeface named Galatta is one of my close to heart creation, a 9 month long project. I was at the right time at the right moment when Aadarsh Rajan wanted to start a type foundry. He took me under his wing and taught me the ropes.

Galatta is a very experimental typeface. It was inspired from the sign paintings in the streets if Trichy. We tried so many things in this project – a variable, uni-width (does not reflow) typeface in both Display and text format.

The typeface includes variable dingbats, borders and even frames. There is a radical axis which can be used to adjust the width of specific letter forms to fill in the gaps at each line. It also has a underlined variant with glyphs going in and out of the underline. Trust me, it looks lovely.

2022-2023

Bachelors
at NID Andhra Pradesh

First time leaving home into a new place, new language and new people. The cultural shock was extreme and it was an important turning point in my life. I had to learn a lot of new cultural things from scratch. I messed up a lot and honestly, this place is the reason for many of my beliefs.

This wonderful place showed me a lot of things – love, joy, drama, struggles, hate, jealousy, friendship, companionship, respect and the importance of being present. NID stripped me of my ego to humble me into a simple being, and taught me that there is so much in this world which I don’t know, so many wonderful things to explore and showed me joy in even the smallest of things.

2018-2022

Early Life in Trichy

A peaceful quiet place. You can here summer time crickets all round the year. Most of my childhood was here with my family in a neighbourhood filled with loud kids and a very active community.

Festivals and celebrations all around the year – something or the other keeps happening. I studied in an school where there were some teachers who just loved teaching (you don’t find them often) and there were so many friends. All of them now in different corners of the world.

I miss my hometown