Deccan Chronicle illustrations

Online village

This was my internship for Sriven Multitech,Hyderabad. I had to visualize a virtual village as an interface that allows the farmer to acess useful information through kiosks. The challenge was to keep the communication independent of any particular language for universal use and convenience of the rural audience.We created an experience of a virtual tour of a village and positioned different functions in their logical location over the village topography. For example, prices of agricultural products would arrive when you click on to the hyperlink placed on the village market place in the mainpage which is an aerial view of the whole village. This takes you inside the market where you scroll sidewise to simulate a walk, till you reach the grocery store. A click on the store links you to the price chart which is regularly updated through the server to reflect prices in local markets.

The village is alive with little animated sequences that are entertaining and informative. The characters are funny and the mood light hearted.

This project was awarded the first prize in an online competion from Macromedia titled Flashclash

Home page : Aerial shot of the village

Level 2: Grocery store

Level 2: Animated sequence with a social message

Level 2: Flower market with link for prices

Graphics

T-shirt design for Storytrails, Chennai. Comic take on city life in Chennai.

Cover design option for children's booklet

Man's world

This Illustration series was for Man's World. They had an article on Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivour amongst the perpetrators of the infamous Mumbai terrorist attack. I chose monochrome to go with the mood.

Model snapshots

It was great fun designing this concept cruiser bike. We played around the look of a skeletal beast.

Times of India

These are some of my illustration and graphic work from my tenure at The Times of India, Mumbai. The visuals were meant to summarise and accentuate the readers' experience within a short attention span. Communication had to be direct, yet artistic.

Mumbai monsoon

Siddaramaiah with his election offers

Work from home

Ecological trip



Police helpless against drug lords

How livable is our big city?

Consumers conned

India represented as a juxtaposition of the ethnic and the futuristic. 



                                       

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Bollywood personas

Mad Scientist

Dirty business

Format for yearend special

Portrait

Some works of Deepa S Chakraborty in Times of India