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Artist Nandan Pillai Founder Chairman, Orgpeople India Foundation Consultant to Kerala Government for community welfare programmes Orgpeople is proud to present socially committed projects conceptualized by Artist Nandan Pillai that greatly influences and helps to make qualitative changes among children and thereby the entire community.

Mission
“Embrace technology to nurture and safeguard nature for a better world”

Current Pursuit
Fully engaged in the making of his dream project –3D Animation movie ‘Gajaangan’. The project will be the first complete 3D Animation movie in Malayalam – intend to show how to increase the will power to win by overcoming all limitations among children. Community policing promotional activities of kerala police.

The beginning
Born in Thrissur, Kerala Very active in drawing and painting from childhood. Though, not had any formal education in arts began the journey as a Cartoonist after his B.Com education. Got to handle political cartoons in Malayalam news papers and magazines at a young age. Extended his creative work in the advertising field, and went on to introduce advertisement campaigns for well known ad agencies, the first of its kind in Kerala.

Nature Loving Artist
He slowly got on to his passionate area ‘Nature’ and started to give wings to his vision “blend both Technology and nature for better human life”. Conducted art camps and exhibitions among children, realizing that children are the ones to understand the importance of nature and safeguard it. Went on to do conduct live paintings in large canvases of 25 meter length in many districts of Kerala. The uniqueness didn’t stop there; he showed magic using mud, leaves and flowers to paint his creative drawings and messages.

Pioneering works – turning points – A.D.2000

In the year 2000, he amazed everyone by telecasting live the Santhosh Trophy Football Tournament through internet watched by many malayalees in the Gulf Region. It is something that happened first time in India that time. In the same year, he created another magic by starting an online group with over ten thousand students to exchange their creative art forms under the banner India’s First “Cyber Art Village”. Remember, it was long before Orkut, Facebook and other popular social medias gained importance in day to day life.

Expanding the wings- Taking to socially important programs He is the master brain behind several successfully implemented community policing programs. He loves to be with children and is actively involved in developing unique styled projects to spread awareness and love for nature, art and language. They are listed below.

Brain Child behind Projects that won National and International recognition: Pappu Zebra Road-Sense Project” got acclamation from United Nations under projects related to road-safety. The project again got international recognition when Pappu Zebra Road Sense Books came in for much appreciation at the International Safety Media Awards; London, September 2010. The character ‘Pappu Zebra’ was conceptualized the story, dialogues and cartoon drawings were all done by Artist Nandan Pillai. And it was developed to support Kerala Police, initiated by the top ranked officials, for creating awareness on road safety and reducing road accidents. ‘Pappu Zebra’ has been the official mascot of Kerala Traffic Police since 2009. The fame of Pappu Zebra reached states like Rajasthan, Odisha & Hyderabad and is helping them in their efforts to implement road-safety programmes.

Projects implemented in other states in India: The success of Pappu-Zebra lead Karnataka Home Department to invite Nandan Pillai to support them in designing campaign for Fire-Safety. Thus born the character “Uncle Dash and Baby Pom” and the cartoon story for educating the young and the old alike.

Other Popular projects involved in the designing, implementation & promotional activities for various public and state government authorities: The Rail alert promotional campaign for Kerala Railway Police. The first online information, awareness and complaint registration services for Kerala Police as part of community policing which started A.D.2000. Student Police Cadet (SPC) to create young vigilant army of students against social dangers attacking children to which Artist Nandan Pillai is the project implementation team member and SPC promotional campaign coordinator – initiated by Kerala Police. ‘Punyam Pookavanam’ – to which Artist Nandan Pillai is the project implementation team member and promotional campaign coordinator for Kerala Police for a clean and safe Sabarimala.