Alicia Souza has been referred to as a ‘happiness illustrator’ owing to the snippets of happy incidents, funny conversations, and daily life musings about which she draws. She’s added it to her designation ever since, as ‘commercial illustration’ sounded like a drag. She’s been drawing professionally for over a decade (👵🏼!) and has hundreds of products manufactured from her drawings. She has also done a number of TED-x’s, public speaking events and is an INK fellow. Alicia was born and brought up in the Middle East, had a little stint in Melbourne, and currently lives in Bangalore with her husband, dog, lots of pencils, and a naughty toddler.
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Time Out, The Telegraph, Tanishq, Mondelez- Cadbury, Yahoo, The Hindu, Wipro, Google, IIMB, Cornetto, Ashoka Foundation, Penguin, E&Y, Myntra, Motorola, Accenture, Oreo, Air Asia, Vodaphone, Amar Chitra Katha (monthly spread on the Tinkle digest for 3 years), 3M, Clean & Clear, GE, Tinder, Zivame, Huffington Post, Unibic, Amazon, TVS Scooty, Teach For India, Netflix, Dell, Asus, Lenovo, Tata Cliq, Nivea, Del Monte, Horlicks, Times Of India, HP, Society6, Himalaya, Fossil, Cello, Microsoft, Urban Ladder, Bingo, Canva, Netflix, Intel, One Plus, Samsung, MG motors, Jockey, Flipkart, Asian Paints, Canon, Duroflex, Olay, Nykaa, Pantaloon, Purpose, Nestle, Bausch & Lomb, Tang, Angel & Rocket, Big basket, Swiggy Instamart
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Kiehls, GAP, Kerastese, Google, Apple, Lenovo, Hoegaarten, Bewakoof, Little Black Book, Royal Canin, Ikea, Adobe, Apple, Cafe Coffee Day, Tanishq, Puma Social Club, Wacom, Dyson.
I’ve slowly decreased the number of exhibitions and talks I am able to take on due to time constraints but these are the ones I had the pleasure of being a part of.
Talks:
2013: Google (hyd), TEDx (Punjab University), INK Talks, The Hindu (We’ve Changed with you, demonstration),
2014: Ink Women (Scribing), Gyaan Asda (NID), TEDx (Symbiosis Bangalore), Think CIQ (Gear School), Goa Fest, Festember (NITT), Wipro (workshop), IIM, Construkt Fest, NUVU (American School of Bombay, Workshop), SMW (Infosys, Panel)
2015: Cognizant, Decathalon, Intuit, Myntra (fashion incubator), Yahoo (kids day)
2016: Exotel (web), Symbiosis (Pune)
2017: Taxi Fabric, Tech Sparks
2018: Bangalore Design Week, Design Fabric Festival, Saarang (IIT Madras)
2019: Design Con (TiEcon Kerala)
2021: Today At Apple
2022: IIA (Young Architects Festival)
2023: Under 25 Summit , Adobe Alchemy, Meta Conversations (Mumbai), Design Democracy (Hyd), SalesForce Design Day, Google UXU23 (internal global stream), IFP Festival (season 13)
2024: Food Nerd Festival, Workshop Week panelist,
Exhibitions:
2012: Comic Con, Hundred Hands, Sunday Soul Sante (May & Oct), Foresight (June)
2013: Comic Con, Sunday Soul Sante (March, June, Nov, Dec)
2014: Sunday Soul Sante (March)
2016: HGH Exhibition,
2017: DXD exhibition,
2018: Comic Con, Itsy Bitsy Creativity Carnival, CARE Fundraiser
2019: Itsy Bitsy Creativity Carnival, Comic Con (Bangalore, Bombay, Delhi)
2020: DG Book Launch
Reviews:
‘Amazing! Will work with her forever’ -Every client (hopefully)
‘Most likely to sit at her desk all day’ -Moksha, Lavanya, Juhi; Roommates from college times.
‘You may have a problem coming this often’ -Chipswallah down the road
‘Best person that’s ever been born’ -My siblings.
‘Mama, pleasssse can I have…’ -Oliver, my child
