Unnikrishna M Damodaran is an Indian Visual Artist and Graphic designer, a native of Kerala, India.
Unnikrishna has been exploring his skills with digital art-making for several years along with his day job as a Digital Specialist for a worldwide financial payment network company. Professionally a trained graphic designer, Unni blended his advertising and communication design experience with his native vernacular intrigued visual art bringing about a perfect union of his passions – image, text, and typography. Unni’s text-based word art with animated letter components include daily words and phrases that have two dimensions where the text denotes its ideological meaning and the text itself form the actual art.
His personal project One Hundred Days of Malayalam Number Portraits seeks to reveal and question the value of measuring system; where your potential and efficacy being narrowed it down to a number.
Unni’s convergence into digital art and typography allowed him to introduce a unique element to this combination and helped him further to expand his visual explorations with words and images. Unni mostly uses text, images and typography and let it grow with pixel space to challenge the boundaries of conventional typography and image making – making use of the twists and twirls of alphabetical forms to express the meaning and human character of the content, which enquire and question the communication content and its fallacies in this metaverse.
