Arjama Bakshi

Arjama Bakshi

Student in Bangalore, She/her

About

I love exploring, experimenting and frogs

Projects

2023

Gone Bad is a poster which reflects what I am going through. It was a month-old project that I was working on where I was stuck with a certain part of this poster but eventually, I think everything fell into its place.

I have used Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create this piece.

2023

This Illustrated campaign was an outcome of a workshop that I attended. We were given the option to choose between, LIC, Gold's Gym and Indian Railways. I kept the information minimal and gave the tag of 'Jeevan Sathi' which reflects the policy of Life Insurance and how much the company values the people who are associated with them.

I created this piece by using Procreate and Adobe Illustrator. I have used the Helvetica Neue Font: Bold, Medium and Regular for the Tagline, Heading and Sub-text since the company uses Arial and Helvetica for their campaigns and posters.

2022

This piece was created because I was stuck, stuck to begin again. I realised that I have always found a way around situations, life is not linear and so aren't my ways in life. I took inspiration from a very close person who lives his life to the fullest with no regrets or fear. We have got one life so why not just go out there and do whatever we want to do, enjoy along with doing the hard work that will help us reach our goal, whatever that is?

I have used Figma to create this design.
While creating this piece I used a lot of gradients, noise, texture and the blur effect to express how I truly felt about my journey.

2022

Khujchi Ami is a Bengali rap song sung by a Kolkata, India-based group of artists called Kharap Khobor (Bad News). Through this rap song, the creators have tried to express what they felt when their partners left them and how they felt that pain, anger and exhaustion. I used Figma and Procreate to create this album art keeping in mind what the creators are trying to express through this song.

2022

This Graphic Novel was the outcome of the Trans-Disciplinary Research that I had in my 1st semester. It revolved around the theme of Music and Sound, the constant comparison and association of sound and music between two cities - Kolkata and Bangalore. I was heavily influenced by Persepolis and wanted to experiment with ‘How much Black is too much Black’. I also made this graphic novel bilingual because my mother tongue is Bengali and I thought this would be an interesting take on how I write the dialogues and narrations. My medium was traditional as I felt that I needed that space to feel and understand how I develop the skill that is required to create an authentic piece of art.

2020

This initiative was taken by two of my esteemed peers and me when unfortunately Covid-19 hit us. We provided resources and helped raise funds for the patients who reached out to us. We had more than 1000 volunteers to work with and collaborated with multiple organisations and well-known personalities from Kolkata to raise awareness about Covid-19.

2018

Shareerspeak was an initiative taken by Youth Leader's Active Citizenship after the fellowship was over, I took it forward from thereon and worked to sensitise people regarding, body positivity, mental health and queer-ness.

Side Projects

2023

Check-Out Page - UI Challenge

As a student of Visual Communication, I have always been eager to develop skills which will enhance my vision as a Designer. I am very new in the field of UI/UX and practising is the best way where I can have a better understanding at Designing. I am trying to focus more on UI hence created this Checkout page which is inspired by Amazon, Swiggy and Zomato.

This Checkout page was created on Figma

Exhibitions

2020
Kolkata, West Bengal

Thahor was an organisation that I created to promote local artists and homegrown brands. I collaborated with multiple brands and organised pop-ups/open mics throughout Calcutta for growth and exposure of local and homegrown art

2021
2020
2018

Volunteering

2020 — 2021
2019 — 2021
2019 — 2022
Bachelor of Arts (Sociology) at Jadavpur University
Kolkata, West Bengal