Nireesha Prakash

work

  • 2010

    This is a woodtype poster for "an overall awesome guy" searching for the "perfect bride". Grammar and spelling have no room in this Matrimonial ad. 

    This was my take on an assignment to produce a contemporary interpretation of a Woodtype poster. The content for the poster is based on a compilation of South-asian matrimonial ads. The poster was hand-painted with acrylic paints and rearranged digitally. 

    poster, 50" x 17"

  • 2010

    A twelve page type specimen book highlighting a series of three historically important typefaces, from different historical pieces of type design. 

    Each spread was to reflect the typographic design style of the historical period that the font originated. 
    The three featured typefaces:
    Linotype Janson (Miklos Kis)
    Monotype Gill (Eric Gill)
    Clarendon (Robert Besley)

    12 pages, 7.5" x 10"

  • 2010

    The toolkit contains activities designed to reintroduce traditional ideals of heroism within an afterschool program. Some criteria of success for the toolkit include revealing and making the fundamental differences that exist between todays hero and the traditional hero more apparent to my audience and helping cultivate a stronger bond with their heroes of today.
    The more modern our culture has become, the further it has moved away from the archetypal hero...