“Researching, organizing and making sense of complex information to make it easily understandable, is a thing of joy.

For me, visuals are just not about making the outcome look aesthetically pleasing, but the cultural context and its inclusive representation is just as important.

pandedhananjai@gmail.com

Resume

    • National Institute of Design(NID) M.Des (2022)

    • (CDAC), Mumbai Educational Trust (MET), Bandra, Mumbai, Diploma in Advanced Computer Arts (2017) -Grade A

  • Design research, Design Thinking, UI/UX Design, Adobe's Creative Suite, Branding, Video editing, Photography, Motion design, Typography, Communication and presentation skills, creative writing,

    Familiar 360 Imaging, Projection Mapping, 3D Maya

    Interests Cinema, culture, travelling, Indian mythology, history, reading, old hind songs

  • Creative Designer (Mar 2020, – Currently)

    Engage with branded text, audio & video content, storyboarding, photography, motion design, typography, communication and presentation skills

    • Singlehandedly developed brand guidelines for video stories. Conceptualize, design & communicate through consistent visual language - fostering the organisation’s vision

    • Created a short film for our organisation for COP 28, the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai.

    • Collaborated with external talents for branded text, audio and videos, to produce content that increased audience our reach in the audience

    • Led the editing of long-form content into engaging byte-sized videos, synchronised audio and visual elements in visual elements in multi-camera productions

    • Introduced motion graphics in storytelling and enhanced our audience retention.

    • Developed creative communication in vernaculars of global communities that are beneficiaries of or can benefit from organisations’ initiatives.

    • Lead everything on the creative side from shoots, and design, to social media handles.

    • Trained interns in advanced-level video editing.

    Intern at the Archives of NID, 2021

    Extensive research in the history of design in India, digital restoration of photographic archival material of NID, designed social media creatives and anchored the Zoom session on E.A.T. Experiments in art & technology, India, in the 1960s & ’70s.

    Intern at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) (2020)

    Freelancer (2019) Creating logos for startups

    UI/UX Designer (May, 2017 – June, 2018)

    Justdial.com, Designing websites on CMS system. Creating content for client’s website.

    • Team lead of the design team. Creating UI/UX enhancements for a better workflow. Coordinate with writers and designers to publish material online.