smishdesigns illustrator & designer
About The Artist

Smish Designs is a contemporary artist, designer and illustrator. Charged with meaning and drenched in colour, her work reveals and questions the social constructs of gender, prejudice and power.

Publishing under an alias, she has emerged as a strong voice in Indian protest culture. She  regularly inspires conversation and concern for human rights and social justice on her online platforms.

Smish Designs is a graduate in Graphic Design from the Parsons School of Design in New York. Smish’s work has been widely covered and published by Indian and international news media and cultural platforms such as: Taz.de (Berlin), The Caravan, Amnesty International, The Vice, CNNNews18, The Hindu, Gal-dem Magazine (Singapore), Rana Ayyub’s Substack, Hindustan Times, Indian Cultural Forum, etc.

Born in 1988, she currently lives and works in Mumbai, India.
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