An Artist With Innovative Ideas – Taranbir Singh Sawhney

The Uncommon Box is happy to turn the spotlight on an upcoming artist, Taranbir Singh Sawhney, a student of Visual Communication in Sushant School of Design. Starting off his with casual doodling at the back of exercise books in boring classes, Taranbir realised that this was what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. That he is talented is evident in his skill in experimenting with innovative ideas based on the insights he gains from his faculty at Design school. He finds his inspiration from different sources. Taranbir recently participated in a prestigious competition Typoday 17, organised in February in Sri Lanka. The theme for this contest was ‘Typography in Diversity’ and that got Taranbir thinking.

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He decided to blend several influences into his entry- including Madhubani paintings, mono-printing, and pareidolia. Experimenting with acrylic paints, got him his ‘Eureka’ moment, and he was well on his way to creating something stupendous. He decided to represent the individual alphabets of Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati, Sinhalese, using the elephant as the leit motif in his designs. This was his brief for the contest:

My poster design shows different Asian languages designed as a playful elephant shaped font backed by colourful blocks that I designed to represent Diversity. I wanted to give an Indian feel to it with the representation of elephants. They are a symbol of stability and strength as well.

Predictably, our Uncommon Artiste produced an amazing array of alphabets, as seen in the pictures he has shared. We are delighted to share the work of such a creative mind, who surely has a promising future ahead as an artist. You can find more of his work on the following links: Instagram | Behance | Blog

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