︎ABOUT
I am a Graphic Designer, (a self proclaimed poet), and a Graphic Design MFA graduate from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Currently, I’m faculty in communication Design as an AICAD fellow at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
My work explores the intersection of human behaviour, and culture, with design, whether cultural conditioning, culture shock, or a cultural conversation, I like to think of design as central to it all.
I’m open to commisions and collaboration!
For inquiries write to aasawari.196@gmail.com
WORK
AUG 2020—PRESENT
Freelance Graphic Designer
Branding, web design, poster design, lettering, type design.
AUG 2020—PRESENT
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
Faculty in Communication Design
AUG 2020—DEC 2020
Gingko Bioworks, Boston
Freelance Graphic Designer
SUMMER 2019
Pentagram, New York
Team—Emily Oberman
Design Intern
2018—2019
Indian Type Foundry
Ahmedabad
Type Design Intern
2016—2017
Amarrass Records
New Delhi
Freelance Designer
SUMMER 2016
Green Goose Design
New Delhi
Design Intern
SUMMER 2015
IIT Bombay
Industrial Design Center
Research/Design Intern
My work explores the intersection of human behaviour, and culture, with design, whether cultural conditioning, culture shock, or a cultural conversation, I like to think of design as central to it all.
I’m open to commisions and collaboration!
For inquiries write to aasawari.196@gmail.com
WORK
AUG 2020—PRESENT
Freelance Graphic Designer
Branding, web design, poster design, lettering, type design.
AUG 2020—PRESENT
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
Faculty in Communication Design
AUG 2020—DEC 2020
Gingko Bioworks, Boston
Freelance Graphic Designer
SUMMER 2019
Pentagram, New York
Team—Emily Oberman
Design Intern
2018—2019
Indian Type Foundry
Ahmedabad
Type Design Intern
2016—2017
Amarrass Records
New Delhi
Freelance Designer
SUMMER 2016
Green Goose Design
New Delhi
Design Intern
SUMMER 2015
IIT Bombay
Industrial Design Center
Research/Design Intern
EDUCATION
MFA GRAPHIC DESIGN 2020
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore
B.DES COMMUNICATION DESIGN 2017
National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), New Delhi
RECOGNITION
2020
Creative Quarterly 62
Runner Up
2020
GDUSA Graphic Design Award for “A Conversation between the East and the West“
2020
GDUSA Graphic Design Award for The Visible Voices
2020
Speaker, ATYPI All over
2020
Speaker, TypeWknd 2020
2020
Creative Quarterly 61
Runner Up
2020
AICAD Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship, MIAD
2020
Women of Typographic Excellence by Sharp Type for the Malee Scholarship
2020
Women in Typography
Featured Type Designer for Thesis Typeface, Nari
2020
Feminism in India
Featured Artist for the Feminist Art Project on Media Imagery on Gender Based Violence
2019
Innovation Center for Design Excellence (ICDE)
Silver Medal, Branding
2018
MICA merit scholarship
MFA GRAPHIC DESIGN 2020
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore
B.DES COMMUNICATION DESIGN 2017
National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), New Delhi
RECOGNITION
2020
Creative Quarterly 62
Runner Up
2020
GDUSA Graphic Design Award for “A Conversation between the East and the West“
2020
GDUSA Graphic Design Award for The Visible Voices
2020
Speaker, ATYPI All over
2020
Speaker, TypeWknd 2020
2020
Creative Quarterly 61
Runner Up
2020
AICAD Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship, MIAD
2020
Women of Typographic Excellence by Sharp Type for the Malee Scholarship
2020
Women in Typography
Featured Type Designer for Thesis Typeface, Nari
2020
Feminism in India
Featured Artist for the Feminist Art Project on Media Imagery on Gender Based Violence
2019
Innovation Center for Design Excellence (ICDE)
Silver Medal, Branding
2018
MICA merit scholarship

EXHIBITIONS
Guiness Storehouse 2020
Soon is Now, Creatives Against Covid Global Poster exhibition, Ireland
MICA 2020
Claiming Design, Juried Show, Bronze Gallery, MICA
Willem De Kooning, 2019
Unstable Energy. Unbound Potential, Willem De Kooning Academie, Rotterdam, Netherlands
MICA 2019
100 Years of Bauhaus, Brick Gallery, MICA
MICA 2019
Hand Lettering Juried Show, Bronze Gallery, MICA
NIFT 2017
Unsettle, Graduation Show