Pallavi Thampi is a Toronto based graphic designer and illustrator. She is currently in her final year at OCAD University studying graphic design and minoring in English. She also enjoys colour-coding, electronic music, typography, patterning, photography, coffee sipping,freewriting, reading well worn books, over-analyzing, museums, taking walks in strange cities.
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Pallavi and NOTW:
"In exploring Mirvish Village, I was struck by the constructed and branded theatricality of the entire neighborhood. Honest Ed is such a well-known and theatrical trademark of Toronto and it permeates every aspect of the neighborhood, from every angle. In ‘Honest to Holt’, I question the ownership and authorship, the cheap abundance, and glorified nostalgia and kitsch aesthetic of Honest Ed’s and Mirvish village using typography as a means of satire. In my work I’m also interested in ownership of space, and the relationship between space and object. Emporium delves into the divide between low and high-end items and spaces, and the transformations of the discounted deals into objects of desire."
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