...an illustration and interdisciplinary design practice sharing untold and impactful stories in compelling ways, and finding dynamic means to bring knowledge to life.
We do this through commercial design and illustration projects, as well as an experimental and investigative approach to explore intersected issues, histories and narratives that inform the everyday.
Noonbug is run by Ananya Patel - a designer who enjoys finding dynamic ways to tell stories and activate research. In this pursuit, she has worked as an illustrator, researcher, curator, writer, and facilitator, and briefly as an archivist reframing colonial narratives between Britain and Vadodara, where she is based. Her projects often fall in the intersections between gender, cultural identity and ecology, and look at systemic issues through a creative lens.
Ananya also participates in Womanifesto - a global women artists’ collective, and facilitates workshops on communication. She co-founded Vadaavaran Collective, a climate justice group that mobilises local climate action and creates green jobs at a community level, particularly for low-income area residents. She provides strategic and communication design consulting for the groups's Waste-to-Wealth program educating and employing women in climate justice work. She works with the social impact organisation 10-in-10 and Complexity University as a Gigatonne Team Coach, as well as supporting core team operations in design and storytelling. She is a design contributor to Heartfulness Magazine, and a trained Heartful Communication workshop facilitator, working in the space of wellness, active listening and communication. She also curates programmes for and helps run the Ceramic Center - a non-profit art studio in Vadodara that supports artists to explore varied creative pursuits.
Ananya has presented work at the Victoria & Albert Museum, South London Gallery, Lakshmi Vilas Palace Vadodara, Dutch Design Week, Sharjah Biennial, AWID International Forum, and the first Trans-South East Asia Triennial in Guangzhou as part of Womanifesto Art Exchange.
She has worked on storytelling and research projects for Education Development Center, USAID, Center for Justice, Law and Society at Jindal Global Law School, Complexity University, Womanifesto Art Exchange, Victoria & Albert Museum, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) among other development organisations.
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