Interview with Ravi Vasavan

April 2009: Ravi Vasavan is a young designer currently working as Art Director and Designer in Sydney. He has an Impressive portfolio combining vector shaped graphics and 3d illustrations with photography.

Hi Ravi. What are you up to at the moment?
Hi Clayton, right now, I am just sitting at my desk and getting ready for a long afternoon revising things across few projects that I’ve taken on recently. And in general, quite a lot of projects have been flying in and out and few of them are high-scale and exciting, really can’t contain myself until I am allowed to chuck them into my online portfolio and be able to show it to friends, and people in general!

How did you get involved with depthCORE?
A dinosaurus age ago, Justin Maller, the founder of depthcore, asked if I’d like to contribute few pieces as a guest artist which I gladly and admittedly, excitedly took on! This role evolved into a resident artist. I think it was a piece of work that impressed him, and he subsequently featured it on the front page of DeviantART which sparked all of this. I am glad I did this piece, without depthCORE, I highly doubt that I would have progressed as an artist, designer and as a whole person in last few years without my peers at depthCORE whom continiually pushed my game to the highest level. I am absolutely indebted to the wonderful peers at depthCORE forever.

Do you have a typical creative process when starting a new piece of work?
Not really, although I do recycle some processes but usually done up with a new zest to it, to adapt with the new brief. But there seems to be some quirks that I stick with for every processes, let it be personal or client work – I like to sit down and look through FFFFOUND! for all kinds of imagery before starting off with the project, actually, that is more of a daily habit, I do that in the morning quite often, instead of reading up on the latest news!

Dream job/dream client?
One that lets me to do whatever I’d like to, and oh, budgeted to an extent where I can bring in my favourite collaborators and new artists to work. I love bringing in a good spice of others touch, style, ideas into a project which allows it. There is no certain client that I’d love to work for.

Do you have a favourite artist, or artists?
(hopefully this is intended for ‘visual’ artists, because I am profoundly Deaf therefore rendering ‘listening to music’ an inability! heh).
Jonathan Zawada, UPSO, Alex Trochut, Clayton Cubitt and uhhh, a lot more! Can’t possibly list them all, that would take me forever to do so.

Where do you find inspiration?
Everywhere, inspiration is something that doesn’t have boundary in any situations, let it be whilst I am sleeping – sometimes I wake up from a sleep, feeling totally inspired to do something… or whilst in a rush to somewhere, seeing a small thing on a side of the road could be blown up into a huge project. And this goes on, it does not really stop, just as long you open yourself up to it.

Links:
www.dirtylipbalm.com
www.aboyinmidair.com
www.aneverendingtale.org
www.depthcore.com