Looking for a customised and adorable gift for someone special on their D-Day? Call artist and graphic designer Minal Chag of Purple Prose.
Minal designs e-vites for birthdays, anniversaries, house warming parties, weddings, baby milestone graphics and more. She also has her own line of quirky stationery and keeps experimenting to come up with new stuff like coasters, bookmarks, tote bags, coffee/chai mugs, mouse pads and more!
A doodle artist, Minal says she is extremely fond of zentangles - a technique of creating something using repetitive art patterns, which is fun and relaxing. She does typography art as well and use mixed media art technique – digitally editing the hand-drawn art work on her phone and uses the PicsArt App for this purpose. Her favourite tools for doodling are Staedtler pens, Sakura Micron Pens and Koi Brush pens on a regular basis for the blacks and greys.
MInal loves designing the wedding evites – most of them being save the dates and for wedding functions. More than the techniques she tries to understand what a client is looking for, why the design is important and how and where will she/he use it and most importantly the emotion behind it. Baby milestones is another special genre that she is specifically fond of creating lifetime memories for parents.
The pricing of the e-vites depends on the quality of the picture shared and the client specification for edits. A standard save the date or wedding e-vite starts from INR 1,500. The effort in designing a wedding schedule e-vite is a lot more so charges vary accordingly. The same is applicable for the baby milestones set of creatives.
MInal has had some celebrities feature her work recently - from Ayushmann Khurrana and Nakuul Mehta who appreciated her artworks. She has also collaborated with MTV Presents Nescafe Labs.