Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook
About Me
A course by Karishma Chugani , Artist, Illustrator, and Educator
Joined August 2011
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson I will tell you a bit about myself, how I became a visual artist, illustrator, educator and designer and my most important moments in my artistic career.”
In this video lesson Karishma Chugani addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook. Create a paper universe full of possibilities using visual ideas from your sketchbook and paper cutting techniques to bring them to life.
Partial transcription of the video
“About Me Hi, my name is Kharishma Chugani Nankani, and I'm a visual artist, paper cutter, educator, and fashion designer. In this lesson, I will tell you a little bit about myself and the most important moments in my artistic career. My family is originally from Sindh, a part of India that became Pakistan in the partition of 1947, turning the entire Sindhi Hindu community into a global diaspora. My mum was born in Kumasi, in Ghana, my dad in Bombay, but then moved to Morocco for work in his late teens. I was born and brought up in Casablanca. I remember growing up and going to college, when...”
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Course summary for: Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, DIY, Narrative, Paper Craft, Storytelling, Traditional illustration

Karishma Chugani
A course by Karishma Chugani
Karishma Chugani is an artist, designer, writer, and illustrator from Morocco. She has a degree in Fashion Design with Printing from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, and a Masters in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University in Design Futures.
Karishma has worked as a fashion designer, published several books, and participated in collective and solo exhibitions internationally. She also teaches creative workshops to children, teachers, and illustrators at her mobile school L’École de Papier, as well as institutions like Institut Français Madrid & Casablanca, Casablanca American School, Colegio Santa Isabel Madrid, and Libreria Gil in Santander. Her clients include Jerraflore, Le Chocolat des Francais, Marketing Magazine France, Jamini Paris, and the toy shop Wonderland.
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