The person behind the pixels

Hi, I'm Hari.
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A packaging designer who packaged himself. Fine-art kid from Delhi, now making brands that look like they mean it — and I'd love to tell you how I got here.

Hari Talwar, packaged like a product
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Delhi born✦Fine-art trained✦Agency-sharpened✦Detail-obsessed✦Remote-ready✦ Delhi born✦Fine-art trained✦Agency-sharpened✦Detail-obsessed✦Remote-ready✦
Sketching at the drawing boardSketching it out
At a gallery showGallery days
Photo Communication weekPhoto Comm. week
Behind the lens, shooting on a NikonBehind the lens
A painting on the easelOn the canvas
Holding a Day of the Dead printDay of the Dead
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01 — Where it started

It began with a paintbrush, not a mouse.

I trained in fine art at the University of Delhi. Long before I ever opened a design file, I was learning to see — how colour behaves, why a composition feels balanced, what makes an image stop you. That eye is still the engine behind everything I make.

"Delhi taught me to look. Design taught me to make people look back."

From the studio, I moved into agencies and client work, where beauty suddenly had a job to do. A mark wasn't just nice — it had to sell on a shelf and survive a two-inch thumbnail. I fell for that challenge, and I've been chasing it ever since.

02 — Off the clock

Places that filled the well.

Travel is where I steal colour palettes, textures and ideas. A few of the places that shaped how I see.

Hari in Phuket, Thailand
Patong & the islandsPhuket · Thailand
Hari in Hong Kong
Red taxis & the Big BuddhaHong Kong
Hari at Ba Na Hills, Da Nang, Vietnam
The Golden BridgeBà Nà Hills · Vietnam
Hari in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sketching under the towersKuala Lumpur · Malaysia
03 — Where it all comes from

Still an artist, first.

Before the brands and the briefs, there were sketchbooks. My drawings are where the instinct lives — and why the design work has a hand behind it, not just a mouse.

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— Hari Talwar

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