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Anoushka Khandwala
Anoushka Khandwala is a graphic designer, writer and educator based in London, United Kingdom.

Anoushka started out as a freelancer designing for clients who were interested in her work producing graphic design pieces and writing articles related to social and political issues. Her practice sits at the intersection of words and image, imagining how they can work together to shape culture. Anoushka's work is greatly influenced by her heritage and cultural background.

Education
Anoushka studied at the University of the Arts in London between 2015 - 2018.

Career
Over her many years of experience, Anoushka has worked publishing articles for several websites and businesses including AGIA, Creative Review , Create Lives in Progress and Eye Magazine. The work she has produced for these places has provided her with more recognition in the industry, showing her dedication and eagerness to the cause's she is passionate about.

Out of all her work she has made themes she is most well known for writing about include; decolonization in design, why role models matter, as well as women of colour in design. Anoushka's concerns about how women are not taken seriously in the world of design and how they are being discriminated against is reflected in her practice of making to get these issues across. She believes women should have as many chances of showing their creative minds and presenting their work like anyone else. Her career has mainly focused on her political views as well as passing on her knowledge from past experiences to help up coming generations. For example; talks about how students can survive university and help reduce their stress from studying and university life.

Anoushka is looked upon as an example of a hard working woman in the design industries, showing the importance of stand up for what you believe in.

In 2017 Anoushka had made a series of screen printed posters called just fucking vote that were designed to raised awareness of the importance of voting in the 2017 general election. The colour gradient red-to-blue ratio represented the political spectrum making the posters image and message clear and not difficult to miss.

Activism and Inspiration
A piece of work called What Does it Mean to Decolonize Design by Anoushka explained that the word 'decolonization' is used a lot at design events, often in comparison with the word 'diversity'. She wanted to explain that those two words are not the same and it shouldn't be confused. Explaining in her writing about this, she quotes "diversity is about bringing more people to the table, decolonization is about changing the way we think. " Within her writing Anoushka describes how we live in an existence of privilege and oppression, a lot of people come to see a lot of cultures have been appropriated and stolen.

Anoushka's work and activism is heavily inspired by a lot of female designers and speakers. Something she is well known for doing is putting together panel discussions where women from different cultural backgrounds working in the creative industries come together to talk. An example of this was a partnership with Ladies Wine Design London, where she hosted five influential women talking about the problems with how women of colour are treated in the creative industry.

One of her greatest inspirations is a women named Angela Davis who is a famous speaker from the late 90's. Known for feminist political activism, she raised the issues for the lack of respect and equality for women. Anoushka attributes a lot of her own self belief and confidence in her work from seeing Davis start it before her.