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Karan Kumar is a Senior Designer currently at Johannes Leonardo based in New York City. He completed his MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. Prior to moving to the US, Karan was the Design Lead at Homegrown, where he led successful on-ground events and digital campaigns with brands like Adidas, Puma, Nike, Absolut, Budweiser and more. He recently got Featured on It's Nice That and won the Best Experimental Type Design project at the Type Directors Club Young Ones Award 2023.
open to freelance work and collaborations.
Resume
Education:
Rhode Island School of Design
MFA Graphic Design
Batch of 2021-2023
Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology
B.Des Information Arts and Information Design Practices
Batch of 2013-2017
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Photograph by Ben Denzer
Awards & Honors:
>TDC Young Ones 2023 Winner
>ADC Young Ones 2023 Shortlist
>RISD Fellowship Scholarship Academic Year 2021–2022
>WOW Awards Asia 2019- Gold Special Event of the Year (The Memory Project)
>Moonshine Meadery Artist Label Contest Winner
>Signed as Kultureshop Exclusive Artist 2018-2023
>Adobe Design Achievement Awards Semi Finalist 2017(Pluck workbook)
>Adobe Design Achievement Awards Semi Finalist 2017(36 days of type)
Guest Critic, Teaching, Talks & Workshops:
>2023 Invited Designer Talk at Carnegie Mellon University
>2023 Spring Semester 'Identity Design' Teaching Assistant at the Rhode Island School of Design
>2022 'Variable Typography workshop' for Design Studio 3 at the Rhode Island School of Design
>2022 Fall Semester 'Design-Studio 3' Teaching Assistant at the Rhode Island School of Design
>2022 Guest Critic for the Graphic Design Sophomore Spring Reviews at Boston University
>2022 Guest Critic for the Graphic Design Spring Reviews at Northeastern University
>2022 Spring Semester 'Design-Studio 2' Teaching Assistant at the Rhode Island School of Design
Exhibitions:
>Split View, Lamar Dodd School of Art’s C-U-B-E Gallery, University of Georgia, USA, 2023
>Optikal Asylum Artist Showcase, Mumbai, 2019
>Indianama x Kultureshop London Design festival, 2017
>Adidas Icons Artist Exhibition, Mumbai, 2016
>Indianama(2016 edition), Delhi
>Indianama(2015 edition), Delhi
>Puma Collectors and Creators Artist Showcase , Bengaluru, 2014
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