Vanya Padmanabhan is an art director and digital designer living and working in New York City. She holds a B.S. in Industrial Design. She also has an eponymous jewelry brand.

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Website Design, Art Direction, Product Photography
Website Design, Front-End Development, Art Direction, Event Production
Art Direction, Product Photography, Marketing
Website Design, Front-End Development
Website Design, Front-End Development
Website Design, Front-End Development, Photography
Website Design
Jewelry Design, Art Direction, Branding, Product Photography



Kolams are auspicious rice flour drawings made every morning outside the front door, blessing the house. Last December, I photographed almost 1,000 kolams. I then coded a Chrome extension that loads a new kolam image every morning when a new tab is opened, blessing my digital home. Over the course of the day, the image slowly pixelates to white, mimic-ing the daily wear of life on physical kolams.