nehal ahmed’s graphic design
PORTFOLIO
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RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Infographic Magazine Poster, A3 X 2
The lifetime of the rock band ‘Red Hot Chili Peppers’ with the discography and popular/award-winning songs.
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BASIC GRAPHIC DESIGN Book, 30 A5 sheets
The idea was to explore the basic shapes of graphic design (circle, square, triangle) and make 20 frames with each shape occurring only once in a frame. Quirky images and light-hearted creative copy just happened while I was trying to fulfil the brief.
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FABRIC
Swatch book, 190 x 290 mm spread A guide created for anyone who wishes to understand fabric and wants to take part in creating his/her own garments besides today’s world of ready-to-wear.
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IDENTITY
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CRAFTED GREETINGS
Identity project along with product line design An extensive graduation project that involved the creation of a new company, called crafted greetings, product range and application of identity in business and customer communication.
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FUNDAMENTAL ‘09
Identity for Symbiosis Institute of Design Cultural Festival A team of four graphic designers, Nehal Ahmed, Abhay Singh, Maya Pillai and Manasi Agarwal, worked on this identity.
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THE OTHERS Just logos
Projects done for clients
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ILLUSTRATION
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DREAMS
Story-telling in images Four weeks taken to write and illustrate the story with traditional drawing and digital colouring.
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THE CROW & THE PITCHER Pen and ink on ivory paper
Part of understanding comics and re-telling the old tale
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THE DEVIL & THE DAMSEL
Ink drawings in notebook with digital colouring and type An illustrated conversation on a lazy Sunday
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ANDROIDS
Rotring drawing and dry pastel colouring They are severely affected by emotion and therefore discarded
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SPIFFY & EKS
Pencil drawings and later digital colouring Characters from Adventures of Spiffy and Eks
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THE OTHERS
Pen, inks, pastels, watercolour, gouache, pencils Part of Noni’s story at the swimming pool
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PAPERGRAPHICS Overlapped paper on lightbox
I developed this style while working on Dreams. It is the most exciting discovery of my life, yet.
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THE OTHERS
Digital painting, vector graphic, typography mixed with photo
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PHOTOGRAPHY
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nehal ahmed +971 55 3706 404 nehal13@gmail.com