Aswathy Nair
All work

Spatial graphics, event design · 2024 · 2026

Installations

Two large-format installations: a curved timeline wall for Advaya, from the House of Angadi, and a life-size snakes and ladders board for PinQ Events & Decor.

Clients
Advaya, from the House of Angadi · PinQ Events & Decor
My role
Installation design, plans and elevations · Board artwork, art direction for the snakes
Angadi
Curved timeline wall, 18′-2″ × 7′-0″, 2024
PinQ
8 × 8 ft snakes and ladders board, 2026

The brief

Angadi

Angadi gave me their illustration of a sari woven through the generations, marking 600 years of the family's weaving. My job was to turn it into a freestanding wall.

I planned a curved wall — straight for ten feet, then an eight-foot arc — with the Advaya wordmark and brand timeline on the front, and the illustration set tone-on-tone behind it in terracotta.

Angadi

The illustration
Line illustration of a patterned sari flowing across the page, with figures spinning, dyeing and weaving along it and temple pillars behind.

Angadi

Plan and elevations
Drawing sheet of the curved wall: rear elevation, front elevation with the Advaya wordmark, 7′-0″ high and 18′-2″ long, and a top plan showing a 10′-0″ straight run into an 8′-0″ curve.

Angadi

Final artwork
Final artwork for the front of the wall: terracotta with the gold Advaya wordmark, ten milestones from 2010 to today, and the illustration tone-on-tone behind.

The brief

PinQ

PinQ wanted a giant snakes and ladders board for the Bengaluru Wedding Fraternity Meet Up, rooted in India, where the game began.

The brief asked for an 8 × 8 ft board with a 1 ft border, ladders finished with jewels, and snakes drawn from Indian textile crafts like beadwork, bandhani and embroidery. Its strongest idea was the numbers: each square from 1 to 100 is written in a different Indian language.

I designed the board around that idea — numeral in its own script, the number's name below, a reference number in the corner, a Jaipuri floral border and lotus corner blocks framing the grid — and oversaw the snakes, knitted by other vendors.

PinQ

The board
Pink snakes and ladders board with a floral border and lotus corners; each of the 100 squares shows its number in a different Indian script with the number's name below.
The finished board with white ladders and five floral-patterned snakes in purple, pink, blue and red.

PinQ

Details
Squares 1 to 3, 18 to 20 and 21 to 23, each numeral in a different Indian script with its name written below.
A language per square. 1 to 3, 18 to 20 and 21 to 23, each in its own script.
Squares 45 to 47, 54 to 56 and 65 to 67, each numeral in a different Indian script with its name written below.
Number and name. The numeral in its script, with the number written out in words below.
Corner of the board: a pink lotus block where the floral borders meet, beside square 100.
Lotus corners. Pink lotus blocks where the borders meet.
Floral border with pink blossoms and green leaves on a lilac band, edged with a chevron trim and a black and white check.
Jaipuri floral border. Blossoms and leaves on lilac, edged with a chevron trim and a black and white check.

PinQ

At the event
The finished snakes and ladders board mounted on a red printed wall in the PinQ booth, with fabric snakes and ladders and flower arrangements on either side.
On site. The board placed at the Bengaluru Wedding Fraternity Meet Up.
The clients posing in front of the board in the booth, beside framed photographs and flower baskets.
The clients. Posing with the board.
Close-up of a fabric snake wrapped in pink, green and gold brocade with sequins, winding over squares 17 to 44 next to a green ladder.
Close up. The board up close, with a snake made by the vendors.
Close-up of a snake's head in green and gold beadwork, with a green ladder at the side.
More details. A close-up detail of the snake.