Legal Research and Writing

My newest job is in Harvard Law School as a Graphic Designer/ New Media Specialist, that gives me the opportunity to work on instructional design and curriculum projects using multimedia. I spent this summer working on a learning web space for a 1L course called Legal Research and Writing (LRW), which is about the use of secondary sources and writing open memos and stuff like that. This website features the interactive space I created using Adobe Flash.

Shoreditch Urban Development Seminar

I took this class called Shoreditch Urban Development Seminar in Fall 2010 at GSD. I worked in a group for this class to work on a site in Shoreditch, London, do market analysis and come up with a proposal for urban design and financial proforma.

Our site was located near the Shoreditch High Street Tube station, at the intersection of High Street and the Great Eastern Street. This area was mostly office and street retail.It had lots of old buildings and under-utilized land, the only new construction in the neighborhood included Bishopsgate and Broadgate Tower designed by SOM.

Our proposal consisted of infill developments, including more street retail, some office and residential buildings and an "anchor" 5-star hotel. We also proposed lots of open spaces and plazas with public art by the local artists.

Harvard College Global Health Review

I joined the board of designers for Harvard College Global Health Review last semester and designed the pages for the interview sections. It was a fun experience working with College students. The full magazine can be found here.

Open publication - Free publishing - More yamada

HCGHR Logo Design

Here is another logo I designed. The Harvard College Global Health Review HCGHR put together this program called GHX for people to Xchange, Xperience and Xplore ideas. Some of the logo options I put together for them in fall 2010:

Chauhaus Music Video

I made this music video last summer. It is a compilation of some video clips I shot for a class called Archi-Cinema that i took in the winter of 2010. The whole video has been shot in and around Chauhaus, Harvard Graduate School of Design's cafe. The soundtrack is Escape Me by DJ Tiesto feat. cc Sheffield.

Escape Me feat. Chauhaus from Shilpa Ahuja on Vimeo.

Digitally Reconstructing Imperial Hotel, Tokyo

This class called "Innovative Constructions in Japan" that I took in the spring made a group of students digitally reconstruct the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. We made an animation (most of it in a really short time and loooong hours) :P

The final project ended up in an exhibition in GSD Loeb Library.

Here is the original video

Logo Design

I designed this logo for a friend this year. Some of the earlier versions I did:

of leaves and trees...

I liked this one the best....

But now this one is finalized, which can be seen on their website...