Before product design, I was taught precision in gold.
I grew up in Udupi, a coastal town on India's west, in a family of jewellery makers — where precision wasn't a principle you discussed. It was a daily practice, on material that doesn't forgive a second cut.
That's the foundation under everything I do. I've practised traditional Indian painting and sketching since childhood — a discipline recognised with a National-Level Gold Medal in competitive arts — and my craft still extends well beyond the screen. I make jewellery for South Indian temples and established jewellery houses across Karnataka, including bespoke commissions for national dignitaries.
For me, craftsmanship was never only about making objects. It's about carrying a story forward — expressing an idea through precision, restraint, and emotion until it feels inevitable. That's the same standard I hold a product to. The taste I bring to an interface isn't abstract: it was trained, by hand, on things that had to be exactly right.
The tiles below are placeholders. The final art and craft photographs, with their titles, mediums and years, are still to be supplied (asset request F2/F3).