The illustrations on NNAI Livescu, including the logo, were produced by the talented ISG Senior Artist, Amisha Gadani. Her unique artistic vision and attention to detail add a special touch to our [often lamb-themed] content. We are grateful for her creative contributions and dedication to our initiative.
Amisha has worked to visually support the research of ISG faculty since 2011. Using both traditional and digital media, she develops conference posters; slides; illustrations for grants, papers and books; research figures; outreach; journal and book covers; and more. You can see some of her work here, Gallery. Her work at ISG is influenced by her experiences working at Exploratorium Museum for four years and most recently as faculty at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena where for seven years she taught an animal anatomy drawing course for entertainment design students.
In addition to working at ISG, Amisha maintains a personal art practice working with video, sculpture, printmaking, fabric, electronics, watercolor, and gouache. Stemming from her interests in animal morphology and evolution, her artwork ranges from underwater videos and unsettling beak-less bird paintings to her on-going series of interactive animal-inspired defensive dresses that can, for example, inflate like a blowfish when the wearer is intimidated.
Her artwork has shown in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Boston, Seattle, Pittsburgh (Andy Warhol Museum), New York City and Tokyo; has been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, and Scientific American; and has been published in LIMN magazine, Method Quarterly, the books “Future Fashion: Innovative Materials and Technology” by Barcelona-based maomao publications, and “Critical Theory and Interaction Design” by J. Bardzell, S. Bardzell, and M. Blythe (The MIT Press).
You can contact her at: amisha.gadani@gmail.com
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