Won Photography Award

won 2nd place in the ‘Power’ category at the prestigious Hamdan International Photography Awards (HIPA) in Dubai.  the competition received 87,000 entries from 145 countries across six categories, with only 19 winners selected in total.  i also had the good fortune of meeting some amazing photographers from every corner of the world.  my winning photograph, titled ‘Ultimate Power’, is the Sun shot in the H-alpha wavelength, revealing its chromosphere with features such as solar prominences, sunspots, and filaments.  the description accompanying the photograph read: “The Sun powers almost all the natural processes that keep our planet functioning. It is what makes the Earth habitable. Just one hour of sunlight contains enough energy to meet all of Earth’s electricity needs for an entire year. It is the ultimate source of energy - massive, continuous, and overwhelmingly powerful.”

Astrophotography – Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. from Mussoorie. 16 Octber 2024

Typeface Design – Magenos

Magenos is a modern geometric sans serif family characterized by its simplicity and extensive functionality.  with its open apertures, geometric architecture and low contrast strokes, it expresses a sincere tone with a modernistic, neutral, yet friendly personality.  it has been designed to work well for a wide range of applications and is a reliable workhorse.

equally suitable for print and screen usage, it works well for both text and display at a wide range of point sizes.  the addition of true italics gives the whole family a dynamic edge and flexibility.

Magenos comes with many OpenType features including stylistic alternates, standard ligatures, oldstyle and lining (proportional and tabular) numerals, slashed zero and a variety of symbols, making it a perfect choice for contemporary and professional typography. 

you can purchase it here: https://www.myfonts.com/collections/magenos-font-deepak-dogra

Designed the Thums Up brand font

 

 

 

designed a custom brand font family for Thums Up. it is being used for the brand across all communication uses and media.

Typeface Design – Heavitas Neue

Heavitas Neue is an updated version of the very popular Heavitas font. it 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.