FRESH! ISHAN KHOSLA DESIGN (New Street Signage)
FRESH! IN THE SHADOW OF THE GLEN (Poster and Invite Design for the Irish Embassy)
TYPESHOP: A New Typography Workshop. Sign Up Now! For more info visit: www.ishankhosla.com/typeshop.html
Design Categories
LOGO, BRAND AND IDENTITY DESIGN
WEBSITE DESIGN
PRINT, COLLATERAL AND EDITORIAL DESIGN
BOOK COVER DESIGN
EXPERIMENTAL ART
The Company
ABOUT ISHAN KHOSLA DESIGN
CONTACT ISHAN KHOSLA DESIGN
DESIGN SERVICES OFFERED
ISHAN KHOSLA DESIGN ACHIEVEMENTS
Other Ventures
FUN BUNNY LIFE
ISHAN KHOSLA PHOTOGRAPHY
Ishan Khosla Design is a graphic design firm based in New Delhi, India. It was
founded by Ishan Khosla who has worked in the US for several years and holds an
MFA in Design from the School of Visual Arts, New York.
We are a full-service
design firm specializing in Brand Identity Design, Website Design,
Corporate Communications,
Print Collateral Design including: Books, Catalogs,
Brochures, Posters and Invites; Packaging and Environmental Design.
Clients should get in touch with us at contact@ishankhosla.com or call us at +91-9958333006
We are located at 19, Hauz Khas Village, Ground Floor.
Prospective employees should email their resume and portfolio to
contact@ishankhosla.com. We will disqualify all candidates who call us.
4 of our Logo Designs to be featured in the prestigious Logo Lounge 6 in 2011.
Logo lounge showcases the most creative and innovative logo designs in the world.
Ishan Khosla Design has been featured in Platform Magazine's Design Forecast 2009–2010
FRESH! CONNECTIONS THROUGH CULTURE (Emailer and Logo Design for the British Council)
FRESH! LOVE IN A HEADSCARF (Book Cover Design)
FRESH! SASHAY (Magazine Design)
FRESH! AMARYLLIS LAUNCH (Print Advert)
FUN BUNNY LIFE (Website Design)
RELIGION, CASTE AND POLITICS (Book Cover Concepts)
SKIN INK (Book Cover)
HEROGIRI (Book Cover)
HOSHRUBA VOLUME 2: The Prisoner of Batin (Book Cover)
LITERATURE LIVE (Brand Identity Design)
VIEWS ON THE WEST (Poster Design for the ZeeBelt Theater)
Representation of sterotypes: How can we visually represent/interpret the views of Indian call center employees on Europe,
through visuals. With Tara Kelton.
MELA (Brand Identity Design)
PALPASA CAFE (Book Cover Design)
INSTITUTE FOR INNER STUDIES PUBLISHING, INDIA (Logo and Identity Design)
MULK RAJ ANAND (Book Cover Series Design)
THE BETELNUT KILLERS and THE WORLD ACCORDING TO CYRUS (Book Cover Design)
SERIES OF FIVE BOOKS ON SPIRITUALITY (Book Cover)
NEW! THE MAN WITH THE PHANTOM TWIN(Book Cover Design)
An amazing book by eminent Neuroscientist, V.S. Ramachandran, often called
"The Marco Polo of Neuroscience"
looks at new breakthroughs and insights into
this yet unexplored world.
INDIA ART SUMMIT (Corporate Brand Identity Design for Hanmer Group)
The new brand identity design for the India Art Summit.
KUSHTI (Coffee Table Book)
THE ROAD TO PAKISTAN (Book Cover Concept)
NICK CAVE'S THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO (Book Cover)
STREET VENDORS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY (Book Cover)
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).
FAKING IT (Book Cover Design and Illustration)
GLOBAL LOCAL (Logo Identity)
Identity for the recent Publisher's Round Table, sponsored by
the Frankfurt Book Fair and the German Book Office.
HOSHRUBA: THE LAND AND THE TILISM (Book Cover, Design and bespoke Type Illustration)
Left: The cover we prefer.
We believe the typography adds to the mystery
and adventure of this series which is likened to the Lord of the Rings series.
Right: The actual cover used by the client.
OBEROI HOTELS (Emailer Design)
SERIES OF BOOKS BY RAMACHANDRA GUHA (Book Cover Concepts)
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.
NEW!GREEN MANGO (Website Design)
Web design for a New York based social entrepreneurship company.
THE PRESIDENT IS COMING (Book Cover)
DEATH IN MUMBAI (Book Cover)
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.
Left: The cover chosen by the client, emphasises the love triangle
Center:
This cover is a metaphor of his body being cut on a tragic
May morning in Mumbai.
Right: The media hype following the killing is emphaised through the
use of collage from newspaper cuttings.
NEW!THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING DANCING GIRL (Children's Book Cover, bespoke Design and Illustration)
THE GOD MARKET (Book Cover, Design and Illustration)
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.
METAPHORS IN MATTER (Catalogue Design for Gallery Espace)
COLOR CADEENCES (Catalogue Design for The Mint)
THE 10 LAWS OF LEARNING (Book Cover Design)
PLAZM MAGAZINE, PORTLAND, OR (Illustration, Typography and Editorial Design)
ALFRED HITCHOCK Book Covers (Concepts for Westland Books)
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.
MANTO SELECTED STORIES (Book Jacket Cover & Photography)
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.
BAULSCAPE (Book Cover and Type Illustration/Calligraphy)
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.
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.
Musem of Modern Art, New York (Wesbite Design with Anh Tuan Pham, Art Director)
TRUESO (Poster Illustration and Design)
I WITNESS (Book Cover Design proposal for Roli Books)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
DESIGN SCHOOL INDIA a.k.a. DESI (MFA Thesis: Brand Proposal Book)
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.
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.
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.
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.
NEW YORK STORIES: (Design and Illustration)
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)
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Back to the Top
FRESH! LOVE IN A HEADSCARF (Book Cover Design)
Design Categories
LOGO, BRAND AND IDENTITY DESIGN
WEBSITE DESIGN
PRINT, COLLATERAL AND EDITORIAL DESIGN
BOOK COVER DESIGN
EXPERIMENTAL ART
The Company
ABOUT ISHAN KHOSLA DESIGN
CONTACT ISHAN KHOSLA DESIGN
DESIGN SERVICES OFFERED
ISHAN KHOSLA DESIGN ACHIEVEMENTS
Other Ventures
FUN BUNNY LIFE
ISHAN KHOSLA PHOTOGRAPHY
Ishan Khosla Design is a graphic design firm based in New Delhi, India. It was
founded by Ishan Khosla who has worked in the US for several years and holds an
MFA in Design from the School of Visual Arts, New York.
We are a full-service
design firm specializing in Brand Identity Design, Website Design,
Corporate Communications,
Print Collateral Design including: Books, Catalogs,
Brochures, Posters and Invites; Packaging and Environmental Design.
Clients should get in touch with us at contact@ishankhosla.com or call us at +91-9958333006
We are located at 19, Hauz Khas Village, Ground Floor.
Prospective employees should email their resume and portfolio to
contact@ishankhosla.com. We will disqualify all candidates who call us.
4 of our Logo Designs to be featured in the prestigious Logo Lounge 6 in 2011.
Logo lounge showcases the most creative and innovative logo designs in the world.
Ishan Khosla Design has been featured in Platform Magazine's Design Forecast 2009–2010
FRESH! SASHAY (Magazine Design)
FRESH! AMARYLLIS LAUNCH (Print Advert)
FUN BUNNY LIFE (Website Design)
RELIGION, CASTE AND POLITICS (Book Cover Concepts)
SKIN INK (Book Cover)
HEROGIRI (Book Cover)
HOSHRUBA VOLUME 2: The Prisoner of Batin (Book Cover)
LITERATURE LIVE (Brand Identity Design)
VIEWS ON THE WEST (Poster Design for the ZeeBelt Theater)
Representation of sterotypes: How can we visually represent/interpret the views of Indian call center employees on Europe,
through visuals. With Tara Kelton.
MELA (Brand Identity Design)
PALPASA CAFE (Book Cover Design)
INSTITUTE FOR INNER STUDIES PUBLISHING, INDIA (Logo and Identity Design)
MULK RAJ ANAND (Book Cover Series Design)
THE BETELNUT KILLERS and THE WORLD ACCORDING TO CYRUS (Book Cover Design)
SERIES OF FIVE BOOKS ON SPIRITUALITY (Book Cover)
NEW! THE MAN WITH THE PHANTOM TWIN(Book Cover Design)
An amazing book by eminent Neuroscientist, V.S. Ramachandran, often called
"The Marco Polo of Neuroscience"
looks at new breakthroughs and insights into
this yet unexplored world.
INDIA ART SUMMIT (Corporate Brand Identity Design for Hanmer Group)
The new brand identity design for the India Art Summit.
KUSHTI (Coffee Table Book)
THE ROAD TO PAKISTAN (Book Cover Concept)
NICK CAVE'S THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO (Book Cover)
STREET VENDORS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY (Book Cover)
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).
FAKING IT (Book Cover Design and Illustration)
GLOBAL LOCAL (Logo Identity)
Identity for the recent Publisher's Round Table, sponsored by
the Frankfurt Book Fair and the German Book Office.
HOSHRUBA: THE LAND AND THE TILISM (Book Cover, Design and bespoke Type Illustration)
Left: The cover we prefer.
We believe the typography adds to the mystery
and adventure of this series which is likened to the Lord of the Rings series.
Right: The actual cover used by the client.
OBEROI HOTELS (Emailer Design)
SERIES OF BOOKS BY RAMACHANDRA GUHA (Book Cover Concepts)
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.
NEW!GREEN MANGO (Website Design)
Web design for a New York based social entrepreneurship company.
THE PRESIDENT IS COMING (Book Cover)
DEATH IN MUMBAI (Book Cover)
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.
Left: The cover chosen by the client, emphasises the love triangle
Center:
This cover is a metaphor of his body being cut on a tragic
May morning in Mumbai.
Right: The media hype following the killing is emphaised through the
use of collage from newspaper cuttings.
NEW!THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING DANCING GIRL (Children's Book Cover, bespoke Design and Illustration)
THE GOD MARKET (Book Cover, Design and Illustration)
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.
METAPHORS IN MATTER (Catalogue Design for Gallery Espace)
COLOR CADEENCES (Catalogue Design for The Mint)
THE 10 LAWS OF LEARNING (Book Cover Design)
PLAZM MAGAZINE, PORTLAND, OR (Illustration, Typography and Editorial Design)
ALFRED HITCHOCK Book Covers (Concepts for Westland Books)
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.
MANTO SELECTED STORIES (Book Jacket Cover & Photography)
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.
BAULSCAPE (Book Cover and Type Illustration/Calligraphy)
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.
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.
Musem of Modern Art, New York (Wesbite Design with Anh Tuan Pham, Art Director)
TRUESO (Poster Illustration and Design)
I WITNESS (Book Cover Design proposal for Roli Books)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
DESIGN SCHOOL INDIA a.k.a. DESI (MFA Thesis: Brand Proposal Book)
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.
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.
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.
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.
NEW YORK STORIES: (Design and Illustration)
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)
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Back to the Top
FRESH! LOVE IN A HEADSCARF (Book Cover Design)
Design Categories
LOGO, BRAND AND IDENTITY DESIGN
WEBSITE DESIGN
PRINT, COLLATERAL AND EDITORIAL DESIGN
BOOK COVER DESIGN
EXPERIMENTAL ART
The Company
ABOUT ISHAN KHOSLA DESIGN
CONTACT ISHAN KHOSLA DESIGN
DESIGN SERVICES OFFERED
ISHAN KHOSLA DESIGN ACHIEVEMENTS
Other Ventures
FUN BUNNY LIFE
ISHAN KHOSLA PHOTOGRAPHY
Ishan Khosla Design is a graphic design firm based in New Delhi, India. It was
founded by Ishan Khosla who has worked in the US for several years and holds an
MFA in Design from the School of Visual Arts, New York.
We are a full-service
design firm specializing in Brand Identity Design, Website Design,
Corporate Communications,
Print Collateral Design including: Books, Catalogs,
Brochures, Posters and Invites; Packaging and Environmental Design.
Clients should get in touch with us at contact@ishankhosla.com or call us at +91-9958333006
We are located at 19, Hauz Khas Village, Ground Floor.
Prospective employees should email their resume and portfolio to
contact@ishankhosla.com. We will disqualify all candidates who call us.
4 of our Logo Designs to be featured in the prestigious Logo Lounge 6 in 2011.
Logo lounge showcases the most creative and innovative logo designs in the world.
Ishan Khosla Design has been featured in Platform Magazine's Design Forecast 2009–2010
FRESH! SASHAY (Magazine Design)
FRESH! AMARYLLIS LAUNCH (Print Advert)
FUN BUNNY LIFE (Website Design)
RELIGION, CASTE AND POLITICS (Book Cover Concepts)
SKIN INK (Book Cover)
HEROGIRI (Book Cover)
HOSHRUBA VOLUME 2: The Prisoner of Batin (Book Cover)
LITERATURE LIVE (Brand Identity Design)
VIEWS ON THE WEST (Poster Design for the ZeeBelt Theater)
Representation of sterotypes: How can we visually represent/interpret the views of Indian call center employees on Europe,
through visuals. With Tara Kelton.
MELA (Brand Identity Design)
PALPASA CAFE (Book Cover Design)
INSTITUTE FOR INNER STUDIES PUBLISHING, INDIA (Logo and Identity Design)
MULK RAJ ANAND (Book Cover Series Design)
THE BETELNUT KILLERS and THE WORLD ACCORDING TO CYRUS (Book Cover Design)
SERIES OF FIVE BOOKS ON SPIRITUALITY (Book Cover)
NEW! THE MAN WITH THE PHANTOM TWIN(Book Cover Design)
An amazing book by eminent Neuroscientist, V.S. Ramachandran, often called
"The Marco Polo of Neuroscience"
looks at new breakthroughs and insights into
this yet unexplored world.
INDIA ART SUMMIT (Corporate Brand Identity Design for Hanmer Group)
The new brand identity design for the India Art Summit.
KUSHTI (Coffee Table Book)
THE ROAD TO PAKISTAN (Book Cover Concept)
NICK CAVE'S THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO (Book Cover)
STREET VENDORS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY (Book Cover)
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).
FAKING IT (Book Cover Design and Illustration)
GLOBAL LOCAL (Logo Identity)
Identity for the recent Publisher's Round Table, sponsored by
the Frankfurt Book Fair and the German Book Office.
HOSHRUBA: THE LAND AND THE TILISM (Book Cover, Design and bespoke Type Illustration)
Left: The cover we prefer.
We believe the typography adds to the mystery
and adventure of this series which is likened to the Lord of the Rings series.
Right: The actual cover used by the client.
OBEROI HOTELS (Emailer Design)
SERIES OF BOOKS BY RAMACHANDRA GUHA (Book Cover Concepts)
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.
NEW!GREEN MANGO (Website Design)
Web design for a New York based social entrepreneurship company.
THE PRESIDENT IS COMING (Book Cover)
DEATH IN MUMBAI (Book Cover)
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.
Left: The cover chosen by the client, emphasises the love triangle
Center:
This cover is a metaphor of his body being cut on a tragic
May morning in Mumbai.
Right: The media hype following the killing is emphaised through the
use of collage from newspaper cuttings.
NEW!THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING DANCING GIRL (Children's Book Cover, bespoke Design and Illustration)
THE GOD MARKET (Book Cover, Design and Illustration)
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.
METAPHORS IN MATTER (Catalogue Design for Gallery Espace)
COLOR CADEENCES (Catalogue Design for The Mint)
THE 10 LAWS OF LEARNING (Book Cover Design)
PLAZM MAGAZINE, PORTLAND, OR (Illustration, Typography and Editorial Design)
ALFRED HITCHOCK Book Covers (Concepts for Westland Books)
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.
MANTO SELECTED STORIES (Book Jacket Cover & Photography)
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.
BAULSCAPE (Book Cover and Type Illustration/Calligraphy)
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.
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.
Musem of Modern Art, New York (Wesbite Design with Anh Tuan Pham, Art Director)
TRUESO (Poster Illustration and Design)
I WITNESS (Book Cover Design proposal for Roli Books)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
DESIGN SCHOOL INDIA a.k.a. DESI (MFA Thesis: Brand Proposal Book)
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.
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.
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.
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.
NEW YORK STORIES: (Design and Illustration)
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)
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
India, Graphic Design in India, Award winning Indian Designer, Film and Movie Poster Design, Music Album Design, Logo and Identity Design, Branding,
Book and Catalogue Design, Website and Interactive Design, Packaging, Delhi design, Brochure Design, Print Design, New York, India, Mumbai, Bangalore,
US Designers, Photography, Art, Magazine and Editorial Design, Advertising, Signage and Environmental Design, Graphic Design Consultancy
