Amogh | Info — Amogh Bhatnagar

BIO

Amogh designs books, visual identities, editorial illustrations, and exhibition publications, and is interested in how images, text, and structure produce meaning together. He thinks, reads, and occasionally writes about art, design, and a bunch of other stuff.

He holds an M.Des. in Communication Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and is currently a designer at Delhi-based design studio Squadron 14. Amogh was a 2024 Resident Artist at Halden Bookworks, and a D&AD New Blood Portfolio Pick honoree in 2022.

Clients include Norient Sounds, Chalk & Cheese Films, the National Institute of Design Ahmedabad, NID Press, Motherland Magazine, Current Conservation Magazine, Akademi Magazine, and Digital Futures Lab.

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CONTACT

For freelance inquiries and illustration commissions, please reach out via email on amoghb.work@gmail.com

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STATEMENT

My practice involves image-making using collage as the primary medium to mediate between images that are already made, and images that can be made. It largely stems from my work as a designer, which involves putting together components (often created by other people) into systems that the designer sets and moderates. The source material comes from various places: old books, the internet, images of old books on the internet, and stuff that is licensed, stolen, adapted, appropriated, borrowed, taken with permission, or made in collaboration.

in a time where paradigms of image making are shifting much, much faster than previous eras, as are the modes of production and dissemination, I think of my work as a (largely personal) inquiry into making artworks that are 'generative', driven by prompts and 'found' imagery, and reflect an interaction between the personal (what i make) and the collective (what i draw from). Collage becomes a medium to understand and unpack frameworks for putting things (thoughts, notions, sounds, words, colours, lines, shapes, images) together as a language with personal and shared grammars.