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Ashmina Lamichhane

Multidisciplinary designer based in Surrey working at the intersection of community, identity and visual storytelling.



ATAAC Art Exhibition ArtistWest End Centre, Aldershot, May 2025
The ATAAC Art Exhibition was organised by Underadar to exhibit work from the UK Nepali diaspora. I presented my Bidesi MA project along with Mansik Tanab books.

For Bidesi, I framed and hung the workshop poster created at my RCA exhibition with my family, along with the research zines and postcards. To extend the project, I hung a blank A1 sheet with Posca pens and asked exhibition visitors to draw what objects they’d bring to the workshop that reminded them of their cultural background. 

For Mansik Tanab, I exhibited handmade copies of the publication, in addition to perfect bound paperback versions. A total of 24 books sold on opening day. 

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Chillosophy IN Graphic DesignerRemote, Oct 2024 — present
1/3 Webite banner designs
2/3 Instagram Reels/Story/Ads
3/3 Digital Posters
Currently a Graphic Designer at Chillosophy, a clothing brand in Guragon, India. Responsible for creating digital static/motion posters, website banners and reels briefed by creative director. 

Tools used:  Photoshop,  After Effects, InDesign, Premiere Pro, Illustrator
Mamémi CeramicsVisual IdentityItaly, July — Aug 2024
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5/6 Instagram Plan
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Designed the visual identity, directed photo and video shoots, creating a full brand identity for a ceramic studio in Italy. Created logos, colour scheme, illustrations, business cards, posters and social media post plan including carousels and reels.  

In collaboration with Kalpana Pun (Illustrator/Animator)
Tools used:  Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro

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Mansik TanabBook Design/Publishing2024
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Designed and produced books for Sulav Shrestha’s collection of Nepali and English poems surrounding the subject of depression. Responsible for conceptualising cover and content layout formats, organising structure of poems, printing and binding the final copies. Presented to author’s friends and family during a book launch event.

Illustrations by Nayu Rai

Book Size: A5 
Material: Nepalese Lokta and Recycled Birchwood

Tool used: InDesign, Photoshop 
Bliss RestaurantMenu DesignFrimley, Dec 2023 
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Designed menus and created content for Bliss Restaurant and Bar in Frimley. Lead designer for layout and typesetting for food and drink menus, directed video/photoshoots for reels.

Food menu: A4
Drinks menu: A4 folded vertically

In collaboration with Rohan Gurung and Yeshe Magar
Tools used: InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere Pro

BidesiMA ResearchRoyal College or Art, 2022 — 2023 
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Master’s research project responding to the question: ‘Is there a bridge between the diasporic and assimilated identities? Through the lens of the British-Nepali Diaspora’.

Conducted autoethnographic research methodologies (8 total participants); interviews, mind mapping and drawing workshops to explore individual and intergenerational cultural identities within my family. Compiled research in A5 zines distributed and presented in final exhibit ion. Held a live workshop during private viewing of exhibition with all the research participants, mind mapping and drawing objects each of them brought that represented their identity. Objects, drawings, mind map and zine presented for the remaining show.

Exhibited at RCA2023, Kensington
Tools used: InDesign
(Un)LearningInterdisciplinary Collaborative LearningRoyal College of Art, 2022 — 2023 
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Masters interdisciplinary project responding to climate ‘wicked problems’ as a group of six from architecture, communication, design, arts and humanities disciplines. Our approach to solving climate issues was to learn from each other; scheduling a six-week program where each of us curates a learning day along with a prompt to have a ‘silent conversation’. Learning how different disciplines design and solve problems. I was responsible for all visual communication forms, presentations, organising schedule document and designing the final publication where our documentations were compiled. Creating an archive of our learning process and dialogue.

Size: A5
Binding: Coptic (6 signatures)

In collaboration with Alisha Raman, Arianne Lucchini, Anna Makarova, Hyeonsu Cheong and Ge Tang.
Tools used: InDesign, Photoshop

©Ashmina Lamichhaneashmina@live.com2025