Help Japan!

Here is a series of minimalist posters for the natural disaster which is unfolding in Japan right now. Tens and thousands of people have been affected by the disaster. Please donate if you can and spread the word. You can…

Islam 101

Islam 101 is an ongoing series where the tenents of Islam are explained by seemingly irreverent cast of characters but in actuality they can be used to educate the people about Islam.

Sheikh Mario on Islam

The word Sheikh can…

Eid-al-Adha 2011

The following is the series that I created for the Islamic Festival of Eid-al-Adha (November 2011) Eid-al-Adha (Arabic: عيد الأضحى, Chinese: 宰牲节 Zǎishēng Jié, German: Opferfest) also known as the Festival of Sacrifice is one of two main festivals in…

Book Art Calligraphy: Isma-ul-Husna

Book art refers to the concept of making art literally out of a book or in other words, book as art. I have had this project in my mind for a long time but I did not get a chance…

Pride and Prejudice and Robots

This is a mock photoessay that I did with Zaied Ali regarding the lives of an unrepresented and underprivileged minority – The Robots. The title of the project is inspired from “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.”

(i) Cooking:

After a…

Valentine’s Day

This is another project that I did with Zaied Ali. St. Valentine’s Day has become overly commercialized. Money has progressively taken over the main point of this celebration. The current piece is a critique of the over commercialization of St.…

Kordu

Kordu is an impromptu word for Korean + Urdu. It is a fusion of Korea Hangul Script and the Arabo-Persian based Script in which Urdu is written. East Asian cultures and Islamic cultures be they Arab, Turkish, Persian or Indo-Pakistani culture  have…

Calligraphy

Words tell stories. I like to do pieces which can tell stories, be it Rayokan’s Just Is or be it Tagore’s Ra-Tha sign. While families of scripts have their own style and standards of Calligraphy. Here I have mainly…

Photography

Various places that I have been, faces that I have met and some observations that I have made. There was a time when I used to record daily happenings with meticulous detail which also included photographing the events and while…

Art of Aurangzeb

The word Aurangi is a shorthand for my given name Aurangzeb. It is one amongst many nicknames that I have. I specifically choose this particular name amongst the multitude because it reminded me of the Swedish Impressionist painter Ivan Aguéli.…