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Decoding the Nature Rohan Dahotre

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Alicia Souza

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Charuvi Agrawal

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Contents Creative Gaga Magazine - Issue 44

Illustration 27

Caricature

Thinking of You

55

by Alicia Souza

Sculpture Design 40

Einstein

by Paul Moyse

Happening Around! INSPIRING TRENDS

Pg 08-11

Feed Your Creative Hunger by Food-ful Art

SPENDTHRIFT

A bunch of thoughtfully designed stuff that you can acquire.

The food of and for the artists.

Story-ing through characters! by Danny Jose

Hanuman Sculpture

Pg 12-13

Story, a bonding agent.

by Charuvi Design Labs

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Figures

Illustration 16

EARLY RISER

Pg 16-23

Decoding the Nature by Rohan Dahotre

Love for animals into illustrations.

GAGA GOD Blissful Success! by Alicia Souza

Pg 24-29

Branding by simplicity and dedication.

ICON WATCH

Pg 30-35

Born to Create by Archan Nair Contentment of the heart.

Lion-tailed Macaque

by Rohan Dahotre

GAGA WORTHY

Pg 36-41

A Journey of Learning Charuvi Design Labs Establishing the brand through a studio.

Packaging Design 46

VANTAGE VIEW

Pg 42-45

Challenges of working on Government projects! by Anthony Lopez

Working for the biggest audience.

STUDIO SCOPE

Pg 46-53

Design as a journey of evolution! by Gopika Chowfla Design A self-scripted success story.

MADE IN A Teenage Dream, and Making it Big! by Paul Moyse

Pg 54-59

Secret behind captivating caricatures.

VANTAGE VIEW

Veeba Packaging

Digital Art

by Gopika Chowfla Design

Before-hand Tips for young studios by Prasun Mazumdar

Pg 60

Tips before starting out.

Gyaan

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Coloured Transformation! Amar V. Kale

Pg 62-65

Transforming black and white illustrations into colourful pieces.

Designer Life! 15MM OF FAME

Rise and Shine! by Sahil Aggarwal

Pg 66-69

Be bold, daring and experimental.

Envision, experience and embrace! by Varun Rao Taste it all, pick your favourite.

Dream in the Light

by Archan Nair

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Early Riser

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01 Lion-tailed Macaque. Found in the Western Ghats and threatened by deforestation, these beautiful animals are endangered and sometimes caught as pets and also hunted for food.

Rohan Dahotre

A nature lover and a wildlife illustrator, Rohan Dahotre has graduated in animation from the Symbiosis Institute of Design. After working for about 2 years in the animation and gaming industry, he took a break to explore his own style through doodles. Having worked as a designer at Chumbak, he now freelances based out of Pune. He wishes to positively contribute towards wildlife awareness and conservation through his work. Behance.net/ RohanSharadDahotre

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The world is a beautiful and balanced composition of humans and animals where currently an imbalance has been created between the two. Rohan Dahotre has translated his love for animals into illustrations in an attempt to create awareness and restore this balance.

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Gaga God

Alicia Souza

Born and brought up in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Alicia has lived, studied and worked in many different cities across various continents. After graduating from Melbourne and having lived there for about 5 years, Alicia moved to Bangalore 8 years back to work as an illustrator and has been drawing for a living ever since! Instagram.com/aliciasouza

A BLISSFUL SUCCESS To be a success story, one needs to dedicate and devote two hundred percent from your heart and of course, be blissful at heart. Alicia Souza is one such example to know about and be inspired from.

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Sometimes, things donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t move as they are planned. Whatever has to happen, happens and there is definitely something good in it. So is the case with Alicia Souza.

The Inception. The reason she started illustrating as a freelancer was because she needed to pay rent. She feels like she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t intentionally get into the place that she is in today but rather fell into it with circumstances at hand and the choices she made. She moved to India to illustrate and her style evolved into the style she uses primarily today. Setting up the online store came after massive demands started flowing in for it

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Gaga Worthy

01,02 Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI), GIZ. A still from a 3D animated film.

Charuvi Agrawal Founded Charuvi Design Labs in 2009, a leading animation studio and design lab based in New Delhi. Plunging deep into animations, interactive and innovative media installations, applications and games. CDLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spirit of transforming challenges into opportunities has helped them achieve numerous prestigious awards at various festivals. cdl.tv

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Issue 44

A Journey of Learning Not everyone is able to look for the positives in the challenges and treat them as opportunities. Charuvi Agarwal was able to transform her challenges into strengths and carve a niche for her studio, Charuvi Design Labs.

The journey from the point of initiation to the present time of existence and functioning is a journey of learning and growth. We have with us, Charuvi from Charuvi Design Labs sharing the experiences of her journey. CG. What was your inspiration to have your own setup and establish yourself as a brand in the design industry? Charuvi. To go beyond what exists, to push boundaries and create a new level within the design space worked as an inspiration for us. The idea behind CDL was to create high quality animation and design work supported by installations, art in India and be recognised among the best in the world

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Issue 44

Published on Oct 12, 2018

Creative Gaga

Yourself as Brand! Who doesn't want to become famous, when everyone knows your name and especially for us designer, it is the basic dream every design student or young artist dream. But behind every successful studio, artist or designer there are stories of challenges, struggles and their unique solutions to these. With this issue, we interviewed many well-known names from the creative industry and found their different learnings and experiences behind making their own self as a brand. Though they all have a different take on this topic, still they all unanimously emphasise on focusing on their skills and quality delivery of the final outcome. So, if you are looking to establish yourself as a brand in the creative market or already in the process of it, this issue is a must read. Full of insights and inspirations from the best of the talents, this issue is waiting to reach your desks. Order before the print copies sold out!