Portrait photograph by Jane D'Souza

Ankita Shinde is a multidisciplinary artist, TEDx speaker, & creative workshop facilitator with 14 yrs of experience as a visual designer.

DESIGN WORK & PORTFOLIO

Alongside my artistic practice, I work as a graphic designer and illustrator across brand design, editorial design, digital products, and marketing campaigns.

—View selected professional work on Behance:
[ behance.net/AnkitaShinde and behance.net/adacstudio ]

These links reflect only a part of my professional journey. A significant portion of my client work — especially recent and long-term collaborations — isn’t publicly available due to NDAs or the nature of the work. If what you see here and my broader practice resonates, I’m happy to share more relevant work on request.
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DESIGN PRACTISE & COLLABORATIONS

Since the start of her career in 2012, Ankita has collaborated on projects for brands including Adidas, Lenovo, Red Bull, ASUS, Meta (Facebook), ICICI, Vogue, as well as several independent businesses and personal brands. Her work has been featured across online and print publications such as Hindustan Times, Mumbai Mirror, and Creative Gaga magazine.

She holds a BFA from Rachana Sansad College of Applied Arts, Mumbai. Over the past decade, Ankita has largely worked independently, with two long-term roles as Visual Design Lead at Even Healthcare and Parallel HQ (2021–2022). She also briefly ran her own design studio, Another Day Another Colour (ADAC), where she led a team of up to six designers.

Ankita enjoys thoughtful, trust-based collaborations and works through both one-off projects and ongoing retainers. She is especially drawn to long-term engagements where collaborative visual thinking balances clarity and play.
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CREATIVE PRACTICE & APPROACH

“I work across canvas, skin, paper, pixels, clay, and stories.”

Ankita’s creative practice is fluid, intuitive, and deeply interconnected. She doesn’t see these as separate lanes — they are in constant conversation with one another. Each practice informs, softens, and strengthens the others. Some days she paints. Some days she designs brand creatives, some days she pokes tattoos. Some days she makes zines, leads workshops, or simply plays with slime and keyboards. It is all part of the same body of work — stretching across mediums, yet returning to a shared purpose: to explore what it means to feel, connect, and be alive.

Her three-year-old self — curious, imaginative, and deeply feeling — continues to guide her. She reminds Ankita that creativity flows most freely when we meet ourselves with honesty.

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WORKSHOPS & TEACHING

Ankita has conducted online creative self-expression workshops for over 800 people globally, across the age group of 8–45. She is a strong advocate for pet projects (side and personal projects) and has initiated several personal and community-led creative experiments over the years.

In 2018, she delivered a TEDx talk in Bangalore, India, on the subject of pet projects — exploring their benefits and applications, particularly within public school education systems in India.
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ART, MENTAL HEALTH & INNER WORK

Ankita’s long-term engagement with therapy and her experience of neurodivergence have deeply shaped her relationship with art. She sees her practice as a living ecosystem — a mosaic of play, care, introspection, and expression. This way of working extends beyond the studio into how she collaborates with individuals, teams, and communities — using visual thinking and creative processes to support clarity, connection, and shared understanding.

She is also the founder of F.A.R.T. — Feel Art Reflect Together, a small collective that merges art, wellness, and self-expression. Through F.A.R.T., Ankita facilitates spaces where individuals can explore their inner worlds and connect with themselves through creative practices.

Her recent works explore themes of inner landscapes (informed by Internal Family Systems), human connection, and the beauty of spontaneity. Often blending abstract and figurative styles, her work is rooted in experimentation and storytelling. Art helps her make sense of the world, even as the act of creating continues to shape her in return. Somewhere between these two forces — sense-making and self-making — she finds magic. She finds herself.

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