Sundhya (pronounced sund·yah) is a Black, and Sri Lankan Graphic Designer from Lexington, Kentucky, currently based in Los Angeles. They received their BFA in Graphic Design from California institute of the Arts. They have designed brand identities, social media campaigns, publications, and photo based illustrations, for clients such as California Institute of the Arts, BIPOC Design History, The Vera List Center, and Fisk Projects. Being from Kentucky where visual culture is a mix of folk, low culture, and uninformed surprises, they understand the value and, beauty that comes from vernacular. Moving to Los Angeles has changed the type of vernacular that they take in. Street signs, graffiti, billboards, and other ubiquitous graphics made for everyday people inspire their practice currently. They are a recipient of the AIGA Worldstudio award, and have received recognition from Reed college for a personal project titled “read the body copy”.

Music, Memes, Pop culture, and Archiving all influence their design practice.

Photo by Cassie Lopez.

Email
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