Ravista Mehra
FOUNDER
Ravista Mehra is the founder of South Asian Salon. Mehra is an Educator and Visual Storyteller based between New Delhi and London. As a creative practitioner her design practice lies in decolonising the human narrative through the interdisciplinary fields of graphic design, experiential design, and post-colonial history.
Bhavani Balasubramanyam
MEET
Bhavani Balasubramanyam is a visual storyteller and facilitator based between Glasgow and Singapore, using comics, illustration, and theatre to explore South Asian identity, mental health, and the occasional cameo from her cat, Kevin.
Rian A. Sadiq
BRANDING & VISUALS
Rian is a Norwegian-Kashmiri graphic designer. His practice combines design, writing, and research, with a strong focus on societal themes such as activism, norm-critical perspectives, multilingualism, and decolonial thought. Growing up in a Western society while being raised in a Muslim, South Asian household, duality has shaped his approach to design.
Saachi D'Souza
ARCHIVE MANAGER
Saachi D’Souza is a writer and editor whose work moves across reportage, essays, and comics to explore society, culture, and identity. She curates Queer-ing Food in India, a digital platform documenting the intersections of queerness and food. Her practice is driven by curiosity about memory, politics, and the everyday.
Shivani Sridhar
CULTURALLY
Shivani is an Indian Graphic Designer & Multimedia artist currently based in London. Her practice is passionately feminist and expressed through multiple media. Deeply narrative driven, her work is prescribed by intensive practice based research. Through it, she hopes to build a dialogue about the politics of being a woman in Indian society.
Nasreen Ahmed
RECULTURING
Nasreen Ahmed is a third-culture social scientist and artist with Kashmiri ancestry based between Norway and the Netherlands. Her work seeks to redefine decolonisation / reculturing of oneself, and of academia and the arts. A Criminologist by education, activist by experience and an artist at heart, her practice exists somewhere in the in-between.
Sharad Chaubey
WEBSITE DESIGNER
Sharad is a user experience and graphic designer based in Bengaluru. With a background in engineering, he discovered his true calling in design – blending strategy, creativity, and problem-solving. He draws inspiration from India’s diverse cultural traditions and storytelling techniques, which shape his perspective on design and human connection.
Asita Singh
BRANDING & VISUALS
Guided by curiosity, Asita Singh explores where art, science, and technology meet. Her work seeks human connection through research-driven storytelling and sensory experience, with a growing interest in interaction design and installation.
Dona Pabasara Kannangara
SPOTLIGHT
Dona Pabasara is a creative strategist & advocate for youth empowerment, blending art and impact to bring global stories to life. With a background in political economics, she is passionate about projects that drive transformational change in their local communities & celebrate diverse voices.
Vaishali Soni
MEET
Vaishali is a multidisciplinary creative blending storytelling, design, and art to explore themes of identity, human rights, and technology. A self-taught illustrator with roots in journalism, she’s currently building The Living Room Diaries, a Substack community for creative reflection and connection.
Shreya Agarwal
MEET
Shreya is a graphic designer based in India and London, specialising in speculative design, typography, and interaction design. Her design practice is centered on experimentation through research, with a deep commitment to using design to help people and spark excitement in their lives.
Jhinuk Sarkar
COLLABORATIONS
Jhinuk Sarkar is an illustrator, educator, and creative access consultant whose work spans illustration, inclusive practice, and cultural production. Shaped by a cross-cultural upbringing, her practice explores belonging, sensory awareness, and representation, alongside research into neurodiversity and creativity.
Sudeshna Saxena
CULTURALLY
Sudeshna is a maker with a restless mind. A deep love for crafts, handmade processes and storytelling led her to work closely with traditional Indian textiles as a designer, researcher and illustrator. Her visual practice focuses on telling stories, primarily those associated with traditions and material culture.
Karishma Tuladhar
CULTURALLY
Karishma Tuladhar is a multidisciplinary architectural designer and researcher based between London and Kathmandu. Her architecture philosphy centers on design emerging from its site—environmentally responsive, spiritually grounded, and rooted in community. Through her practice, she aims to foster belonging and deeper connections between people and place.
Sai Shraddha
RECULTURING
Sai Shraddha Suresh Viswanathan is an interdisciplinary leader and scholar-activist working across engineering, social psychology, and anti-racist praxis. The first migrant woman to serve as President of the National Union of Students, her leadership centres intersectionality, socialist advocacy, and lived experience; she was a 2023 Young Scot Award winner.
Yumna Zahid
TYPEFACE DESIGN
Yumna Zahid is a multidisciplinary graphic artist with a passion for creating purpose-driven work. Her unconventional approach to design, rooted in unorthodox problem-solving and storytelling, inspires her to craft impactful visuals that spark curiosity and conversation.
Nayonika Ghosh
TYPEFACE DESIGN
Nayonika Ghosh is a visual designer/creative currently based in London. Her practice explores the idea of in-betweenness—across cultures, languages, and materials. . Observe, make and reflect - are the three ideals that inform her methodology. Interdisciplinary in nature, her portfolio spans graphic design, type design, photography, moving image, and writing.
Eisha Mehtab
RECULTURING
Eisha Mehtab is an Erasmus Mundus scholar and a Social and Cultural Psychologist, originally from Pakistan and now based in Norway. he is a visual poet, beginner digital artist and photographer (you can see her work at @callmeconundrums on Instagram). She is also a writer on her Substack called ‘Calling out conundrums’.
Deepesh Sangtani
CULTURALLY
Deepesh Sangtani is an interdisciplinary designer and maker from New Delhi, India. His practice lives at the intersection of visual arts and graphic design, with a focus on
space, place, and print. He is drawn to the tactile nature of making and enjoys creating physical design objects that celebrate the often-overlooked details of our everyday surroundings.
space, place, and print. He is drawn to the tactile nature of making and enjoys creating physical design objects that celebrate the often-overlooked details of our everyday surroundings.
Kuhu Juneja
SAS NYC
Kuhu Juneja is a New York–based Art Director and Designer from India, working across branding, motion, and visual storytelling. Her work blends satire, culture, and social commentary to challenge norms and spark dialogue.
Chinmayee Vaidya
WEBSITE DESIGNER
Chinmayee Vaidya is a Mumbai-based UI/UX designer who brings a people-first perspective to her work through a background in healthcare. She specializes in research-backed problem-solving, turning complex insights into thoughtful and accessible user experiences. Her practice is driven by a commitment to creating digital spaces that support storytelling and community-building.
