Playground — Aisvarya Chandrasekar

Illustration and Design

BHL

Feb 13, 2020

Illustrations inspired by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It was my final project for the Domestika course taught by Willian Santiago. Created with Adobe Illustrator.

Scenes from Greece

Jun 16, 2023

Illustrations from my trip to Athens, Greece. This was my final project for a Domestika course taught by Laura Pérez.

I'm a Professional Too

Apr 4 – Nov 21, 2021

Illustrations for a five-part event series addressing how Indian Arts stakeholders could formalize their workspaces through contracts and boundary-setting.

Indisha

May 13, 2021

Illustration, Logo Design, and Brand Identity and Mockups for an Indian dance school. All the elements of this brand were illustrated on Adobe Illustrator.

5 min sketches

Jan 15, 2024 – Jan 19, 2024

For one week, every day at a predetermined time, I set a timer for 5 mins and drew what was in front of me.

Chicago Transformation Collab

May 14, 2022

As a graphic design intern at Zealous, I helped design an immersive visual experience for a summit that brought together community leaders from 15 Chicago-area communities to collaborate on shared visions for safety and justice.

Misc. Projects

Draw a Kolam

Jun 3, 2024

Kolams are geometric line patterns drawn on the floor with rice flour every morning often by women in South India. Draw your own here!

Scrollytelling with d3-force

July 7, 2023

I taught a summer seminar on Interactive Graphics. This was a template I created for the class.

Interactive Data Viz Summer Seminar

Jun 22, 2023 – Jul 21, 2023

Syllabus for my summer seminar on interactive data visualization.

Pollfinder Explainer

Mar 25, 2025

This is a video explaining what our Magic Grant project, Pollfinder, is. The illustrations were drawn and animated on Procreate (in one night) and the video was edited with Descript.

Origami

Tiny Golu

Navaratri is my favorite time of year. We celebrate the festival with a tradition called Golu, where we display dolls of characters from Hindu mythology on tiered platforms. Each year, I create new pieces for my Golu, trying news ways to tell these stories.