I am a visual storyteller and an illustrator. I love creating meaningful work mostly inspired by the world around me and my own experiences. I love creating experimental art books and enjoy exploring the themes of nature, consciousness and co-existence. I am heavily influenced by the spiral shape and I tend to include it in all my projects. I completed my thesis this year and produced a mechanical pop-up book, the entire project was inspired by the spiral shape that I researched and created a concept out of.

Ashmil

I am a visual storyteller and an illustrator. I love creating meaningful work mostly inspired by the world around me and my own experiences. I love creating experimental art books and enjoy exploring the themes of nature, consciousness and co-existence. I am heavily influenced by the spiral shape and I tend to include it in all my projects. I completed my thesis this year and produced a mechanical pop-up book, the entire project was inspired by the spiral shape that I researched and created a concept out of.

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I am a visual storyteller and an illustrator. I love creating meaningful work mostly inspired by the world around me and my own experiences. I love creating experimental art books and enjoy exploring the themes of nature, consciousness and co-existence.

I am heavily influenced by the spiral shape and I tend to include it in all my projects. I completed my thesis this year and produced a mechanical pop-up book, the entire project was inspired by the spiral shape that I researched and created a concept out of.

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Language

English
Advanced
Urdu
Fluent

Work Experience

Teaching for Pakistan Associate (Strategic Communication) at Teach For Pakistan
August 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025
Created event branding materials including banners, backdrops, and presentation templates. Produced brand visual assets for three main events, and developed engaging graphics, illustrations, and animations. Coordinated with manager and strategic team to deliver all source files, then refined outcomes based on feedback.
Associate Strategic Communication (Event Branding & Visual Assets) at Teach For Pakistan
August 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025
Created event branding materials including banners, backdrops, and presentation templates. Produced brand visual assets for three main events and designed engaging graphics, illustrations, and animations. Collaborated with the manager and strategic team, received feedback, refined, and finalized all deliverables; also delivered all source files.
Book Illustrator at Beaconhouse National University (Beaconhouse School System)
June 2, 2025 - August 30, 2025
Collaborative project to illustrate a folk lore storybook. Selected and illustrated 17 stories per illustrator, sending line art to clients for approval and rendering final artwork while maintaining the client-driven illustration pipeline. Provided iterations based on client feedback.
Book Illustrator at Beaconhouse National University
June 2, 2025 - August 31, 2025
Collaborated on a folklore storybook project between Beaconhouse National University and Beaconhouse School System. Selected 17 stories per illustrator, sent line art to clients for approval, and rendered illustrations with updates while keeping the client aware of changes through the established client pipeline.
Book Illustrator at Beaconhouse National University (Beaconhouse School System collaboration)
June 2, 2025 - August 30, 2025
Collaborated on illustrating a folklores storybook as part of an illustration team. Selected and produced illustrations for 17 stories per illustrator, delivered line art for client approval, and rendered final illustrations while keeping clients informed of changes/updates.
Transmedia Graphic Designer / Illustrator at We are Transmedia
June 2, 2025 - August 30, 2025
Designed illustration assets, posters, and supported marketing/defense pitches. Worked closely with the design team and handled the full illustration workflow as per the client’s pipeline, including sending line art for client approval and rendering while incorporating changes or updates requested by the client.
Head of Interior Design (Pop-up Restaurant) at Beaconhouse National University
December 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025
Collaborated on a pop-up restaurant interior design project for the BNU Design Summit 2024. Conducted field research; generated cost-effective interior design concepts; assigned tasks to team members; maintained continuous communication with chef, crockery, and branding teams. Produced rough sketches with different furniture settings and materials; handled environment design elements including fabric samples, lighting and decor planning, seating arrangements, floor palette and artisan ordering, plant placement, and interactive restaurant curation aligned to the theme 'Jugaar' (innovative fix).
Head of Interior Design (Pop-up Restaurant) / Interior Design Team at Beaconhouse National University
December 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025
Collaborated on a pop-up restaurant concept for the BNU Design Summit 2024. Conducted field research, brainstormed cost-effective interior ideas, and assisted with space planning and interior styling. Worked with the kitchen/chef and branding teams; coordinated set layout elements like seating arrangements, lighting, decor, tabletop textile samples, plant placement, and final seating/environment composition with maximum usability.
Head of Interior Design Team (Popup Restaurant Project) at Beaconhouse National University
December 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025
Collaborated on the BNU Design Summit 2024 popup restaurant interior design project: conducted field research, generated economical interior ideas, assigned tasks to team members, coordinated continuously with the chef team, crockery team, and branding team, and contributed to layout/environment design including rough sketches of seating/furnishing options, environment styling, collecting fabric samples for table cloths, arranging lights and décor, finalizing the seating arrangement with maximum capacity, designing wood flooring palette and ordering artisans, and arranging plants. Curated an interactive restaurant experience aligned to the theme 'Jugaar' and its innovative fix.
Curator (Art Exhibition)
March 20, 2024 - May 20, 2024
Exhibited personal artwork at an art exhibition held at Cafe Sol and helped curate other artists’ displays alongside my own.
Curator for Art Exhibition at Cafe Sol
March 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024
Helped curate an art exhibition and displayed artwork; also supported curation of other artists’ displays.
Curator / Design & Exhibition Support (Arts Exhibition)
March 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024
Exhibited personal artwork at an art exhibition held at Cafe Sol. Assisted with curating other people’s displays alongside her own work.
Curator (Art Exhibition) at Cafe Sol
March 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024
Exhibited personal work in an art exhibition held at Cafe Sol and supported curating other people’s display pieces alongside her own.
Illustrator (Intern) at Ajeeb Studio
February 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024
Worked as an intern illustrating brand and social-media marketing assets for clients that hired the studio. Supported the studio’s first small design event in Karachi by designing event assets, posters, merchandise, and animations. Participated in a detail-focused team workflow with many moving parts during event production.
Intern Illustrator at Ajeeb Studio
February 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024
Illustrated branding and social media marketing assets for clients. Designed assets, posters, merch, and animations for the studio’s first small design event in Karachi, Pakistan, while supporting a core team with many details during event production.
2D Illustrator / Animator / Visual Artist at Beaconhouse National University (BNU Connect)
January 1, 2024 - March 31, 2024
Part of the Visual Team for a collaborative project under BNU Connect, creating assets and visual language for a 2D hybrid mobile game. Contributed to storylining and scripting, storyboarding gameplay and scenarios, finalizing art style, creating character designs and character sheets, designing sprite sheets for in-game character movement, and producing posters, concept art, and environment/world-building visuals. Coordinated with the coding team, applied feedback, and helped animate/color title sequences; performed QA and testing.
2D Illustrator / Animator / Visual Artist (BN U Connect incubated project) at Beaconhouse National University
January 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024
Part of the visual team for a 2D hybrid mobile game. Contributed to storylining and scripting, storyboard and gameplay scenario planning, style finalization, character design and character sheets, sprite sheets for in-game character movements, and visual language/posters/worldbuilding. Collaborated with the coding team, applied feedback, and animated/colorized title sequences, followed by QA/testing.
2D Illustrator / Animator / Visual Artist (BNu Connect) at Beaconhouse National University
January 1, 2024 - March 31, 2024
Worked on a collaborative project under BNU Connect to create visual assets and visual language for a 2D hybrid mobile game. Responsibilities included brainstorming storylines and scripts, storyboarding gameplay and scenarios, finalizing the art style, creating character designs and character sheets, sprite sheets for in-game character movements, designing visual language (posters, concept art, world-building, environment design), collaborating with the coding team and applying feedback, animating and coloring title sequences, and performing QA/testing.

Education

Bachelor’s in Visual Communication & Design at Beaconhouse National University
September 1, 2021 - August 18, 2026
Bachelor's in Visual Communication & Design (ongoing) at Beaconhouse National University
September 1, 2021 - August 18, 2026
Bachelor's in Visual Communication & Design (3rd year) at Beaconhouse National University
September 1, 2021 - August 18, 2026
Bachelors in Visual Communication & Design at Beaconhouse National University
January 1, 2021 - August 18, 2026

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Education, Media & Entertainment, Non-Profit Organization