Delhi India Graphic Design

Ishan Khosla Design is based in New Delhi, India
We work with clients from India as well as from around
the world including New York and London.

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Ishan Khosla Design is a full-service design firm. Ishan Khosla has been working
in the United States for several years and has recently moved to New Delhi, India.

We specialize in Printed Matter—books, brochures, posters, catalogues
and packaging as well as web design, logo and identity design and branding.


To get in touch, please email us at contact@ishankhosla.com or call us at +91-9958333006




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NEW! SERIES OF BOOKS BY RAMACHANDRA GUHA (Book Cover Concepts)









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NEW! DOCKMASTER'S HOUSE (Identity Design and Collateral for a posh London Restaurant)
Dockmaster's House is a listed building in London's Canary Wharf district, which has been
converted to an Indian restaurant. The final mark (above) is inspired by the compass rose and the
Ashoka chakkra (of the Indian flag). The various brand collaterals (below) such as the letterhead,
business cards, bar menu, complimentary slip and e-newsletter
and are shown below.
The final few marks look at combining the compass rose with the chakkra (of the Indian flag).


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NEW! OUR TWO DESIGN SUBMISSIONS FOR THE NEW INDIAN RUPEE SYMBOL (Type/Logo Design)
The symbol on the left is a representation of India as a global financial power as well as a great source of culture and knowledge in the world.
In this symbol, the transition of the English “R” into the Devanagari “.

This symbol on the right has a bold contemporary look, that is both strong and stylish and that can work in the financial markets as well as
on various media such as websites, mobile phones and print. The strong parallel lines not only unify the R with other currency symbols such
as the Dollar, the Yen and the Euro, but the upward arrow created by the 3 lines signifies growth. The “tripod” created by the 3 lines also
connote stability. Thus this symbol represents the hallmark of the modern Indian economy — growth and stability combined, which is
something every currency stives for.












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NEW! FAKING IT (Book Cover Design and Illustration)
Hachette India










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NEW! GLOBAL LOCAL (Logo Identity)
Identity for the recent Publisher's Round Table, sponsored by
the Frankfurt Book Fair and the German Book Office.



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NEW! HOSHRUBA: THE LAND AND THE TILISM (Book Cover, Design and bespoke Type Illustration for Random House India)

 





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OBEROI HOTELS (Emailer Design)





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Green Mango (Logo Design)
Green Mango is a social exntreprenuership website geared to help small businesses like plumbers and carpenters market
themselves to their target audience via the internet. In the reverse sense, it also gives the everyday consumer a portal to
find recommended vendors. The "O" in Mango has been used as a metaphor the mango itself, where the circle within the "O"
represents the seed that co-exists with the mango just as the small-businesses need to co-exist with their neighboring clients.


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NEW! GREEN MANGO (Website Design)
Web design for a New York based social entrepreneurship company.






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NEW! THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING DANCING GIRL (Children's Book Cover, bespoke Design and Illustration for Random House India)

 

 


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THE GOD MARKET (Book Cover, Design and Illustraion for Random House India)







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NEW! INDIA ART SUMMIT (Corporate Logo Design for Hanmer Group)
The new identity design for India Art Summit.



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THE PRESIDENT IS COMING (Book Cover for Random House India)




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NEW! GEOMETRY OF ERROR A catalogue of Mekhala Bahl's Work (Catalogue Design for Gallery Espace)
Mekhala's work is very tactile and dimensional, which is why we embossed the cover to refelect
the real nature of her work and we die-cut the cover to reveal the tactile title page underneath.






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METAPHORS IN MATTER (Catalogue Design for Gallery Espace)






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COLOR CADEENCES (Catalogue Design for The Mint)







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THE 10 LAWS OF LEARNING (BOOK COVER Design for RANDOMHOUSE INDIA)






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AN OTHER PLACE (Catalogue Design for Gallery Espace)






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ALFRED HITCHOCK Book Covers (Concepts)
For this re-issue of stories from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, we decided to use the very recognizable silhoutte of Hitchcock, but relate the
actual form of his outline to elements from crime scenes, such as blood stains, plastic bags (suffocation), cloth (for tieing someone) and arson.








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WARNER MUSIC (Brand Identity Design)









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BOOK COVERS (left to Right):

MANTO SELECTED STORIES (Book Jacket Cover & Photography for RandomHouse)
Sadat Hasan Manto has been called the greatest short story writer of the Indian
subcontinent. He was born in 1912 in Punjab and went on to become a radio and
film-script writer, journalist, and short story writer. Manto's stories are vivid,
dangerous and troubling and they slice into the everyday world to reveal its
sombre, dark heart.

DEATH IN MUMBAI (Book Cover for RandomHouse Books)
This book looks at the gruesome murder of a TV producer in Mumbai by a woman
he loved and her lover, who cut his body into several pieces. The cover is a metaphor
of his body being cut on a tragic May morning in Mumbai.


BAULSCAPE (Book Cover and Illustration/Calligraphy for RandomHouse Books)
Bauls are mystics from Bengal who reach a state of trans through music. They
are nomads and their beliefs transcend religious barriers of Hinduism and Islam.
The word "Baul" is sanskrit for the wind. The title is inspired from this connection
as well as the music that they create wherever they go.







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WALKING THE CITY (Photography Poster)
Taken in one of the most walkable cities in the world, this is a graphic study of people walking on 23rd street in
New York City
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ARI: Applied Research International (Logo Design)
ARI is a marine simulation company. Since simulation is in
essence a reflection of reality, we made the forms of "r" and "i"
out of the forms of "a".






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MOVING (Collage Art made from found object)
The idea here is to make the word look like what it means.






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Musem of Modern Art, New York (Wesbite Design with Anh Tuan Pham, Art Director)










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UNITY?
A sign in Mumbai, photographed during the agitation against north Indians working in Maharashtra. This division within a unified nation is a strong threat
to the nation's tolerance and maturity. Is this really unity then? This irony is reflected in the sign that spells out the word "UNITY" but doesn't convey its
true meaning.







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TRUESO (Poster Illustration and Design)





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Book Cover Design proposal for Roli Books









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SAME-SEX LOVE IN INDIA (Book cover design proposal for Penguin Books)
Using the gay flag in conjunction with the Indian tri-color, completes the
metaphor of Same-Sex Love, and, India.






Magazine Design India Delhi
NEGATIVE (Magazine Covers: Graphic Design and Photography)
Negative is a quarterly photography magazine that focuses on one theme per issue. Themes can include product photography, architecture,
stock, poverty, nostalgia etc. The demographic for this magazine includes graphic designers, stock agencies, ad agencies, galleries, museums,
libraries and of course photographers.







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SADAK (Art-direction of Illustration and Typography for Poster Design)
Sadak means street in Hindi. This poster was done for one of my street
photography
shows in Delhi. This poster uses the Indian vernacular
"Bollywood" style or the "street style" and was literally stuck all over the
streets of Delhi.







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EVERYTHING IS SEPARATED BY WATER (Book Cover Design)
A book on the artist, Maria Magdelena Campos Pons. The book title comes from the fact that Campos Pons is Cuban,
of African origin and lives in North America. Her work, which is fractured into diptychs and triptychs is about the
3 continents (place) and the past, present and future (time). The cover is created by turning one of her images
into a triptych and creating divisions through typography.







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FAIRS (Book Cover Design and Photography)
Fairs are something all of us can relate to. This book is about the nostaligia of Fairs. How, when and why they started and whether they are
going to die out or not? These are the oldest Ferris wheels in Austria and were even featured in Orson Well's, The Third Man. The typography
reflects the nostalgia of those bygone days.
This is a proposal for a book sent to Phaidon publishers.

**Fairs: Won the 2006 Graphis New Talent Award






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BUDDHA THE FILM (Print Collateral and Logo Design)
The design of the logo and a series of promotional materials for the film Buddha. I used a 'western' treatment for the logo for
a couple of reasons. One, no English typeface can look like Indian typefaces, and the ones that do, look fake and cheezy.
Two, this a Hollywood film that will treat the story of the Buddha in a "contemporary" (aka western) way.









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RAW i.e. REACTION AGAINST WAR (Logo and Identity Design)
RAW is a TV channel that looks at the other side of WAR. Despite (or may be because of) globalization, this is the age of fractured and disjointed relationships between cultures.
The goal of RAW is to show its viewers the painful rebuilding of families... of countries that take place after a War... in an effort to prevent further Wars.






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CAUTION TABLE (Product Design)





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DESIGN SCHOOL INDIA a.k.a. DESI (MFA Thesis Brand Development)
I find DESI to be an appropriate name for a design school in India, since desi means "Indian" and it consists of the
first 4 letters of design. The logo is based on 2 main aspects on Indian culture. One, its religion and two, its rich languages.
The 8 petaled lotus is holy for Hindus and Buddhists, and it means openness to other cultures. The rounded forms reflect the
nature of many Indian language scripts.



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This cover of the thesis for DESI has the letters spell out the full-name name of the school as well as create an outline of the map of India.


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POSTCARD PROJECT II
In this self-initiated project, I mailed my girlfriend postcards on a regular basis. These postcards travelled from
New York to Jaipur, India. The idea here is to use visual communication to touch someone's heart. And to also
learn to create something beautiful that you give away—literally, since many of the postcards got lost along the way.




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CELEBRATING FREEDOM 12151791 (BookDesign)
This book, celebrates the launch of the Freedom Museum in Chicago. 12151791, refers to the date—December 15, 1791,
when the Bill of Rights was ratified. We based the book design on the main installation in the museum, which consists of
letter-size metal plates with quotations on freedom die-cut through it. In the same spirit, I decided to emphasize this
dimension of the plates, by using a dotted line throughout the book, with die-cuts appearing on the cover and the
section dividers.






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STUDIO BLUE Website Content and Module Design)
We worked in a very collaborative manner in designing this site. I designed all of the content windows (modules) for the home,
project and case study pages.
I also developed the content for the home and case studies pages—for instance, "5 to 9" is module
in the home page that features work done outside office hours; and FYI is a section that features interesting images on design
and typography from around the world.







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Typeface/Font/Letter design by Ishan Khosla
BIEDERMEIER, THE ART OF SIMPLICITY (Typeface design)
Biedermeier was a movement of simplicity—of making design simple and elegant, devoid of ornamentation.
At Studio Blue we translated this core idea into the design of the book by creating a sans-serif (simplified)
version of the typeface Didot, which became like the furniture—stripped of ornament.





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CULTURE CLASH I: BROOKLYN MEET CHINATOWN (Juxtaposition Series)









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LOLITA and THE CORPORATION (Book Cover Redesign/Concepts)
Lolita: Humbert Humbert and Dolores Haze are complete opposites of each other. While Lolita is fragile, nubile and coy, Humbert Humbert is masculine, strong and determined. The cover
shows this contrast by using a heavy typeface for Vladimir Nabokov (who like Humbert hails from Russia). And in the same "playfully perverse" nature of the book, Lolita's name on the cover
is constructed from pubic hair.

**The Corporation: Won the 2006 :Output Foundation Award (Germany/Netherlands)






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INDIAN MOUNTAINEERING FOUNDATION (Posters)
As part of the 50th anniversary of the IMF, they are calling attention to the plight of the Himalaya, which are suffering from climate change. Reduction in snow levels, melting of
perennial glaciers and the effects to flora and fauna are some of the many concerns. Unlike most of us, the mountaineers of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation see the day to day
effects to the tallest wonder of the world—the Himalaya.








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EXPERIMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY (One-of-a-kind Photographic Prints)
Using Modern Materials and 19th Century Printing Techniques like Van Dyke. Palladium Printing and Gum Bi-Chromate







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BLUE BIRD & CO. (rescued type)
These handmade wooden 1 foot tall letters have been rescued from a more than 50 year old business in Connaught Place, Delhi







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COCHS or Community Oriented Correctional Health Services (Logo and Identity System proposal)
COCHS is an organization that helps newly released inmates secure a health care provider, thereby providing a link between the correctional and societal
health care systems. The goal of the identity is to indicate the coming together of various organizations to provide quality health care to former inmates.
The openness of the mark is a metaphor for the newly gained freedom by the former-inmate.








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WHITE & CASE LLP (Website Design)
White & Case, a law firm, wanted a few recruiting site that would stand out from the competition. Designing the website,
was a collaborative process—I worked with 2 other designers to come up with this solution. I developed the navigation, and
designed
the secondary and tertiary landing pages and the video library (shown above). I also designed the icons used
in the videos.







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POSTCARD PROJECT

In this self-initiated project, I mailed myself a postcard a day for about 9 months. I had a few constraints for the project—the postcards could not be bought, they had to be mailed everyday and always list my
address and the date. I don't claim these works to be solely mine. Someone designed the original postcard and the postal service also contributed with their stamps and other markings.






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MAN>MANNEQUIN, MACHINE>MAN(Text, Photography and Design of Book Spreads)
These are spreads from a book I wrote, photographed and designed. Set in the near future,
this book is about how we humans are becoming more artificial and how our machines are becoming
more human... until one day, we become them and they, us.









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2007–2009 © Ishan Khosla Design


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