Harikrishnan Panicker
Art Director
Denver, CO, USA
303-547-7337
cargocollective.com/thumbdemon
Harikrishnan Panicker is a Bombay bred graphic designer/ illustrator. He did his Masters in Design at the Industrial Design Center, IIT Bombay and then worked with MTV India where he was the senior graphic designer and created designs for channels like MTV, Vh1 and NICK. Currently a freelance illustrator in Denver, Colorado, he spends his time experimenting with printmaking, screen printing and working for clients like MTV World, Nickelodeon, ThinkCling, White Canvas and Invisible Rabbit. He is also working on a line of merchandise under the name - Thumbdemon. In his spare time he collects and customizes vinyl toys, is obsessed with drawing monsters, screen prints , rides his bike, secretly aspires to be in space and works on his super powers. He can keep quiet in 17 languages including Swahili and Parseltongue & can move at an exceptionally slow pace emulating a sloth practicing tai chi!.
Work Experience
Viacom
Senior Designer / Supervising Producer
Incharge of graphic design services towards branding of 2 main channels under the Viacom18 banner - MTV India and Vh1, branding and designing for On air shows, all off air activities and events.
October 2006
- May 2010
Mumbai, India
Self-Employed
Freelance Graphic Designer / Illustrator
Co Branding artist for the skate deck art fundraiser Bordo Bello. Designed the branding and identity of the show held in Denver at the Redline gallery along with other collaterals like posters, banners, flyers, photo booth and some merchandise like sketchbooks etc.
Designed for the launch of Comedy Central in India, with a full fledged campaign that involved designing for outdoors, billboards, events, bus shelters, bus and building wraps, print ads for newspapers and magazine. Designed a 40 page sales manual for the sales team to pitch advertising space on the channel. Designed merchandise to help promote the channel right from mugs, tshirts, shot glasses etc.
Designed tshirts for MTV Desi, MTV K as a part of MTV World.
Worked on projects ranging from SoBe, Wink, Invisible Rabbit, Think Cling & Nickelodeon.
Experimenting with printmaking and screen printing, Worked on various art projects ranging from Artcrank Denver, Denver Chalk Art festival, Heart Art Denver, Project Hello and Bordo Bello.
Designed for the launch of Comedy Central in India, with a full fledged campaign that involved designing for outdoors, billboards, events, bus shelters, bus and building wraps, print ads for newspapers and magazine. Designed a 40 page sales manual for the sales team to pitch advertising space on the channel. Designed merchandise to help promote the channel right from mugs, tshirts, shot glasses etc.
Designed tshirts for MTV Desi, MTV K as a part of MTV World.
Worked on projects ranging from SoBe, Wink, Invisible Rabbit, Think Cling & Nickelodeon.
Experimenting with printmaking and screen printing, Worked on various art projects ranging from Artcrank Denver, Denver Chalk Art festival, Heart Art Denver, Project Hello and Bordo Bello.
May 2010
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Denver, Colorado, United States
Education
Languages
English (Fluent),
Hindi (Fluent),
Malayalam (Fluent),
Marathi (Fluent),
Tamil (Beginner),
Skills
Adobe Illustrator,
Adobe InDesign,
Adobe Photoshop,
Adobe Dreamweaver,
Adobe Flash,