Typeface Design – Heavitas Neue

Heavitas Neue is versatile and flexible all caps font family, with most of the upper case characters different from the lower case ones.  by using either only upper case, or only lower case, or a mixed combination of upper and lower characters, a totally different look of the font can be achieved. you can purchase it here: https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/deepak-dogra/heavitas-neue/

Typeface Design – Aftika

Aventra is a handmade organic sans serif typeface family.  with curved edges and slightly uneven lines, it has a warm and friendly appeal.  its clean and minimal design makes it legibility and readable even in smaller point sizes.  with a distinct and informal human touch, it is ideal for packaging, branding, display, posters, logos, advertising, signage and editorial design.  you can purchase it here: https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/deepak-dogra/aventra/ 

Yeh duniyaa agar mil bhi jaaye

 

Motion Design – Breaking Through Dyslexia

  

a film for Breaking Through Dyslexia, a non-profit educational organisation working towards assessing and facilitating remedial assistance to children with learning disabilities

Typeface Design – Aftika

Aftika is a clean geometric sans serif font family of seven weights.  characterised by a prominent x-height, it is well suited for display as well as small text for print or digital screens.

Motion Design – Star Gold

channel branding and graphics for Star Gold in collaboration with the branding team of Star India.  we also designed the English typeface/font for the channel.  credits: Deepak Dogra, Gagandeep Singh, Kamaldeep Singh, Manish Srivastava.  Star India team: Varun Chawla, Satish Solanki, Khyali Pandya

Photography – Shopping

Astrophotography – Annular Solar Eclipse

(image 1)annular lunar eclipse, shot through a solar filter. 26th Dec 2019. Ooty.  an annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon doesn’t cover the disc of the sun completely and a ‘ring of fire’ is seen.  this happens because the apparent size of the Moon is smaller than the size of the Sun as seen from the Earth.  this happens when the distance of the Moon from the Earth is lesser than it is during a total solar eclipse, when it completely covers the Sun.  (image 2)Bailey’s beads effect visible during the annular solar eclipse.  Bailey’s beads are caused because of the mountains and valleys on the Moon.  these surface features create an uneven edge of the Moon’s disk, where small ‘beads’ of sunlight still shine through the valleys for a very few seconds.

Photography – Reflect

Typeface design – Joyto Soft

Joyto Soft is a slab serif family of five weights. with soft edges and an uneven thickness, it has a quirky, warm and fun character while retaining legibility. it is well suited for display, packaging, restaurant menus, children’s products & books and much more. you can purchase it here.

Motion Design – Meswak

animated ads for Meswak toothpaste.

Typeface Design – Renos Rough

Renos Rough is a distressed display typeface family with an eroded rustic look, yet a distinct geometric spirit. it is an all caps font family with variations in the roughness in upper and corresponding lower case glyphs to eliminate identical distress pattern in repeated adjacent letters. Renos Rough works well for smaller as well as larger point sizes, but is especially suited for headlines, titles, headers, posters, packaging and branding. you can purchase it here.

Motion Design – Star Life

branding and graphics for Star Life, an Indian general entertainment channel broadcast in Africa.

Motion Design – Dish TV App

commercial for Dish TV app

Typeface Design – Geometos Soft

Geometos Soft is a geometric sans-serif display typeface family. an all caps family of seven weights, Geometos Soft is especially suitable for headlines, headings, branding, posters, packaging, titles and logos. You can purchase it here.

Animation – Love Matters

a public service message for Love Matters, an organization providing information on relationships, sex and love.

Typeface design – Agenor

Agenor is an all caps display typeface family. it comes in five weights and is suitable for headlines, headings, branding, posters, packaging, titles and logos. you can purchase it here.

Animation – PMI

commercial for Project Management Institute. credits: Deepak Dogra, Gagandeep Singh, Kamadeep Singh

Nomination – 12th Black and White Spider awards

got a nomination in the Silhouette category at the 12th Black and White Spider Awards. you can see other nominees and winners here.

Typeface Design – Geometos Neue

Geometos Neue is a geometric sans-serif typeface which comes in seven weights. an all caps display font family, Geometos Neue has a clean, sharp and emphatic form especially suitable for headlines, headings, branding, posters, packaging, titles and logos. you can purchase Geometos Neue here.

Astrophotography – Devasthal startrails

stars rising in the east. from Devasthal, Uttarakhand.

Animation – Kurl-on matresses

commercial for Kurl-on matresses. credits: Deepak Dogra, Gagandeep Singh, Manish Srivastava

Typeface Design – Bumpo Soft

Bumpo Soft is a chunky and a fun display typeface family with rounded edges. it is the softer version of Bumpo. with an extra heavy but friendly personality, Bumpo Soft works well for posters, food packaging, children’s products and books, or any communications which needs to be friendly, fun, casual or loud. you can purchase Bumpo Soft here.

Photography – Ride

Animation – IRCTC OYO Rooms

animated commercial for IRCTC OYO Rooms. Credits: Deepak Dogra, Gagandeep Singh. Music: Saurabh Kalsi. Agency: Thinkstr

Typeface Design – Liniga

Liniga is a tall and friendly handwritten typeface with a simple structure and low contrast. Works well for both display and body text. You can purchase it here.

Typeface design – Armageda

Armageda is a hand-drawn fun typeface with variations in upper and lower case characters. It can be purchased here.

Photography – Cow in the corridor

Astrophotography – Solar Transits

(Top to Bottom)Mercury transit, Venus transit, Kite transit. (A solar transit is a movement of any object passing between the Sun and the Earth). Shot through an H-alpha solar telescope. Mercury transit happened on May 6th, 2016. Next one visible from India will be on Nov 13th 2032. Venus transit happened on June 5th, 2012, and you can catch the next one on Dec 10th, 2117. Kite transits can happen anytime.

Animation – Fortune Rice

commercial for Fortune rice. credits: Deepak Dogra, Gagandeep Singh, Manish Srivastava.

Typeface design – Bumpo

Bumpo is a chunky and a fun display typeface. with an extra heavy but friendly personality, Bumpo works well for posters, food packaging, children’s products and books, or any communications which needs to be friendly, fun, casual or loud. you can purchase it here.

Animation – Vistara Airlines

Animated commercial for Vistara Airlines’ Premium Economy Class. Credits: Deepak Dogra, Gagandeep Singh, Manish Srivastava, Ram Singh, Anoop Dogra. Music: Gagandeep Singh(Deeplab), Singer: Swasti Shree Sharma. Agency: Ogilvy & Mather.

Typeface Design – Argone

designed a typeface – Argone. it is a handmade, organic, display family and comes in four weights. you can purchase it here.

Animation – Himalayan

commercial for Himalayan mineral water. credits: Deepak Dogra, Gagandeep Singh, Manish Srivastava.

Typeface design - Redgar

designed a typeface/font – Redgar. it is a weathered display family. it comes in four styles – regular, slab, stencil, clean and has a matching set of banners and shapes. it can be purchased for commercial use here.

Animation – Celebrity Chef

promo for Celebrity Chefs on TLC channel. Credits: Deepak Dogra, Gagandeep Singh.

Astrophotography – North and East

startrails. concentric circles are formed when shooting towards the north, with the Pole Star making the innermost circle. total duration of 2 hours and 20 minutes(top image). looking towards the east, straightish lines are formed, with the angle governed by the latitude of the location. total duration of the second image is 3 hours and 18 minutes.

Good news from the International Color Awards

got a second place and three nominations at the International Color Awards. 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence in Silhouette and nominations in the Fine Art, Children of the World and Silhouette categories.

Graphic Design – Little Cute Store identity design

identity design for a store selling kids related products(age 0-5 years). 

Calligraphy for Harper’s Bazaar

calligraphy for the cover of Harper’s Bazaar Anniversary issue.
the lower one is the final printed cover.

Animation – Nescafé

commercial for Nescafé. credits: Deepak Dogra, Manish Srivastava, Gagandeep Singh.

Photography nominations

got 4 nominations at the 9th annual international Black and White Spider Awards in fine art, people 1, 2 and silhouette categories.

AskMeBazaar.com

animated commercial for AskMeBazaar.com. credits: Deepak Dogra, Manish Srivastava, Gagandeep Singh.

Nutrilite

animated TV commercial for Nutrilite. Art Direction/Design: Deepak Dogra. Animation: Manish Srivastava. Production/Sound/Editing: Gagandeep Singh.

Mastercard Travel Card

animation for Mastercard Travel Card. Art Direction/Design: Deepak Dogra, Varun Chawla. Animation: Kunal Ahuja. Editing/Sound: Gagandeep Singh

Flower

Boats

Two crescents

Venus(l) and the Moon(r) were visible close together on the evening of 2nd January. both showing a very similar crescent phase at the same time. not a very common sight. Venus shows phases like the Moon as it lies within the Earth's orbit. Venus, roughly four times the diameter of the Moon, was about 100 times farther away than the Moon(50 million kilometers) at the time. shot with a 400mm lens(cropped).

Card Design

designed a card for the reception of my good friends Ying Zhou and Nikhil Joshi, combining Indian and Chinese motifs.

Mars

Mars. shot it through a 4" Celestron Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope. the brighter area on the top is the polar ice cap. manually stacked 30 stills. 1/10sec. ISO1000. eyepiece projection. no tracking. 1325mm focal length. 15mm eyepiece.

Umbrellas