Medhavi Nanda
About
Medhavi is a budding communication designer.
As a child, she saw the world through patterns, colours and stories, and was constantly sketching, rearranging and questioning how things could look and feel better. That curiosity led her to design, not just as a visual tool, but as a way to create experiences that connect and resonate.
For Medhavi, design is how she connects with the world and expresses herself. As a multidisciplinary creative, she enjoys connecting thoughtful research with purposeful designs.
Deeply curious by nature, Medhavi is always dipping her toes into new disciplines, including brand development, advertising, video production and editing, UI/UX, editorial designs and illustrating. Whether it is strategy and storytelling or technology and experimentation—she likes to embrace a jack-of-all-trades mindset that allows her to approach problems from multiple perspectives.
The Sacred Third: Fractured Stories of Identity
The short documentary film brings together conversations, environments and everyday moments of survival of transgender women living in Bengaluru, India, including the different livelihood practices followed by them.
It captures this group of people within the spaces they move through, including work sites and homes, focusing on how they interact and carry out their routines in public spaces.
The Sacred Third examines how work, stigma and cultural representation shape the lives of transgender women in Bengaluru, India, using re-storytelling to foreground dignity, struggle and memory beyond tokenistic narratives.
Grounded in everyday life, it draws from labour and cultural practices such as traffic signal collection and ritual blessings, alongside structural barriers to employment.
Through semi-structured interviews and visual documentation of workplaces and shared living spaces, it reflects how identity is lived and negotiated, and how communities build their own systems of support and belonging in the absence of formal opportunities and social acceptance.
MeetCute by Bumble
MeetCute by Bumble was an initiative designed to redefine how people make relationships on dating apps in an increasingly digital world. The project involved developing the branding, user experience strategies and interactive campaigns to bring the concept to life.
This project was a group project, ideated and executed by Medhavi and three other classmates. Created as an added feature on Bumble, MeetCute aims to facilitate authentic connections through in-person community events.
Advertising: Billboards
Feature navigation on the app
Subversive Commentary of an Icon: Merlion Sweet Treat
Discover the enchanting 'Merlion Sweet Treat', a captivating diorama that brings together the iconic allure of Singapore's Merlion and the irresistible charm of a gourmet cupcake!
This whimsical masterpiece features a meticulously crafted miniature Merlion head majestically perched atop a cupcake, adorned with shimmering sprinkles and luscious frosting.
Perfectly blending cultural pride with sweet indulgence, the 'Merlion Sweet Treat' is a visual feast that promises to delight both the eyes and the palate, being served as a delightful fusion of culture and confectionery that is both enchanting and delicious.
Ahmad Hanif Bin Ahmad Jamal
Graciella Lim
Zhang Yitong
Keila Zaneta Arifin
Theo Cao Yunxi
Steven Zoltan
