DESIGNERR
Jeeva A
Designer · Storyteller · DesignErr

JEEVA
DESIGNERR

Senior Visual & Motion Designer
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1st Prize — Communication DesignDesigner Tomorrow! · DOT School
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Top Performer / Best EmployeeFlatworld Solutions · 2025
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3+ Years Self-LearningBengaluru, India
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0 Assets Delivered
Production-grade assets across materials
0 Years Self-Learning
No formal design school — just errors
0 Students Mentored
Tamil Nadu Govt · Naan Mudhalvan
0 Prize · Communication Design
Designer Tomorrow! · DOT School 2026
The Philosophy
01
WHY I CALL MYSELF
A DESIGNERR
It's not a typo — it's who I am. I didn't go to a design school. I learned by opening Adobe, making something terrible, figuring out why it was terrible, and trying again. Every error taught me something a classroom never could. That's the honest truth behind the name DesignErr.
02
I STUDIED MATHS
NOT DESIGN
Funny thing — I actually wanted Computer Science, but financial constraints pushed me into Mathematics. Turned out to be the best accident of my life. Grids, proportions, type scales — they're all just geometry. While most designers feel this intuitively, I can tell you exactly why it works. Maths gave me the precision; errors gave me the instinct.
03
I BUILD SYSTEMS,
NOT JUST VISUALS
When I take on a brand project, I'm not just making a logo. I'm thinking about how it looks on a jersey label, an Instagram post, a packaging box, and a business card — all at once. If the system doesn't hold together across every touchpoint, the job isn't done. That obsession with consistency is what separates a logo from a brand.
04
EVERYTHING I DO
IS STORYTELLING
Whether I'm designing a mascot, animating a 3D scene, or laying out a restaurant menu — I'm always asking the same question: what does this make you feel before you read a single word? That's the skill. The software is just the tool. The story is always the work.
Experience — click to expand
Dec 2024 – Present
FLATWORLD SOLUTIONS
Graphic & Motion Designer
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  • Awarded "Top Performer" (2025) for consistent high-quality output across international visual communication projects.
  • Lead design of production-ready trophy and award graphics for global clients — high precision, brand alignment.
  • Convert legacy assets into high-resolution vector deliverables for scalable marketing and branding.
  • Design and animate mascot characters in After Effects — expressive emotional states improving UI engagement.
  • Export optimised animations via Bodymovin/Lottie for lightweight, fluid mobile and web integration.
Bengaluru, India
After Effects
Illustrator
Lottie / JSON
Character Animation
Production Design
Jul – Sep 2024
ACADEMY OF MEDIA DESIGN
Design Mentor · Contract
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  • Managed and mentored 250+ students — deep-dive training in branding fundamentals, UI principles, and design tools.
  • Developed structured curriculum and led Adobe Creative Cloud workshops.
  • Bridged academic design theory with professional execution — focused on portfolio development and market-ready skills.
  • Part of Tamil Nadu Government's Naan Mudhalvan Scheme — empowering literature students with design as a career path.
Tamil Nadu
Curriculum Design
Adobe Express
Mentorship
Govt Scheme
Oct – Nov 2024
FIRST CONTACT
Graphic Designer · Internship
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  • Contributed to initial brand concepts and digital marketing assets during a remote internship.
  • Iterated on visual designs ensuring brand consistency across social media and digital platforms.
  • Created visual layouts and typography-focused designs for communication materials.
  • Made designs for a new and niche audience — gave a different taste of design thinking and exposed me to a world beyond mainstream commercial work.
Remote
Social Media
Brand Consistency
Typography
Apr 2023 – Present
DOODLENAUT DESIGN CO.
Freelance Designer · Remote
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  • Deliver comprehensive branding, print production, and digital design for diverse global clientele.
  • Produce professional brochures, event posters, and social media kits aligned with client marketing strategies.
  • Manage end-to-end creative projects from conceptual brainstorming to production-ready delivery.
Remote · Global
Brand Identity
Print Design
Social Media
End-to-End
Skills

Built through 3+ years of self-directed learning — no design school, just doing and failing and improving. Click a category to explore.

Visual Identity Systems
Logo Architecture
Advanced Typography
Design Systems
Blender 3D
Cinematic Lighting
Product Animation
Mascot Design
Brand Strategy
Environmental UX
Packaging Design
Print & Collateral
Character Animation
Kinetic Typography
SaaS Animation
Lottie / JSON Optimisation
UI Interaction States
Compositing
Brand Identity Reels
Video Editing
3D Rendering (Blender)
Motion Storyboarding
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe InDesign
Blender
Figma
Gravostyle
Generative AI Tools
Microsoft Copilot
Asset Optimisation
Developer Handoff
UI/UX Integration
Production Design Management
Brand Guidelines Writing
Client Communication
Photography
Project Management
User Research
Education, Certifications & Awards
Education
B.Sc. Mathematics
G. Venkataswamy Naidu College · Kovilpatti
2021–2024
Certifications
This is Animation — Yellow Brick Program
Sony Pictures Animation (SPAI)
2025
Microsoft Copilot Masterclass — Expert
Skill Nation
2024
Foundations of UX Design
Google / Coursera
2024
ChatGPT for Everyone
GUVI
2024
Awards
🏆 1st Prize — Communication Design
Designer Tomorrow! · DOT School of Design · Gre-O
2026
⭐ Top Performer / Best Employee
Flatworld Solutions
2025
Mentorship Impact — 250+ Students
Tamil Nadu Govt Naan Mudhalvan Scheme · AMD
2024
Links
Behance Portfolio
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Career Journey
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2021
Education
Maths, Not CS
Wanted Computer Science. Financial constraints meant choosing Mathematics — lower fees, regular college. Best accident of my life.
2022
First Failure
Book Cover Competition
Entered an intercollegiate book cover design competition. Made it in PowerPoint. Lost. But it was the first time I made something for a brief — and I was hooked.
2022
College Design
Invitations & Certificates
Making welcome/farewell invitations, cultural event certificates using PPT → Picsart/Pixellab → eventually Illustrator & Photoshop. Self-teaching, one tool at a time.
2023
First Real Software
Adobe via DNDC
Through Doodlenaut Design Co., finally got access to proper Adobe software. First real client projects — Jill Vilas branding, VMS Village Milk social media. Everything changed.
2024
May–Jun
Finishing College
Graduation + job hunt + self-learning all at once. Submitting resumes everywhere. No responses. Kept building skills in parallel.
2024
July
Design Trainer · AMD
Selected as trainer under Tamil Nadu Govt Naan Mudhalvan scheme. Taught 250+ students design fundamentals. Contract ended September.
2024
Oct–Nov
Fake Interviews & Exploitation
Multiple interviews and internships that took my work without pay or offer. RTT News tests, CityTech, First Contact internship, Orvionar, Corizo. Got my designs, then went silent. Real industry betrayal.
2024
Oct
Real Freelance Work
Sea Food Festival branding, restaurant menus, Grace Super Market (interview assessment), DeScale — all while job hunting. Kept delivering regardless.
2024
Nov
Packaging & Video Editing
No Broker Hood Christmas gift packaging and video editing for Bengaluru and foreign clients through DNDC. First packaging project. First international brief.
2024
Dec
Flatworld Solutions
Finally selected as Junior Designer at FWS, Bengaluru. After months of exploitation and rejections — a real job, a real salary, real clients worldwide.
2025
Jan
Full-Time + HoppIt
Training done — full-time designer at FWS. Simultaneously designed HoppIt Activewear brand identity through DNDC. Named the brand. Built the mascot. Full system from zero.
2025
Feb
Catalogue Design · FWS
Product catalogue design as a trial file for a client at Flatworld Solutions. Learning how international clients review and demand precision.
2025
Mar
Bowls & Brews
Through Brandverse × DNDC connection. 30 social media creatives per month — posts, stories, reels — with only raw photos and videos. No assets. Pure design work.
2025
Apr
Rejected by Brandverse
B&B opening ceremony + Stanley Sofas branding work rejected by Brandverse QC — people who didn't understand design making design decisions. First major creative conflict.
2025
May–Jun
Bangalore Times Fashion Week
Worked as free designer for the event affiliated with Brandverse. Miscommunications, endless revisions, impossible timelines while working full-time at FWS. Eventually parted ways with Brandverse.
2025
Jun
Promoted · Senior Designer
Promoted to Senior Designer at Flatworld Solutions within 6 months of joining. The work spoke for itself.
2025
Jul
B&B Direct Partnership
Bowls & Brews came back directly — said our designs gave them profits even when other agencies couldn't match the quality. Started working with them and their partner brands directly.
2025
Aug
BAAKU · National Competition
Designed BAAKU — a national mascot submission for UIDAI's Aadhaar identity programme. A government-level brief asking one designer to represent a billion people.
2025
Oct
Ghama Ghama · Rejected
Designed a restaurant entrance board illustration for Ghama Ghama. Client rejected it. Added it to the list of errors that teach more than approvals ever do.
2025
Nov
Top Performer Award
Awarded Top Performer at Flatworld Solutions for consistency, workflow innovation, and cross-team impact. One year in — already leading by example.
2025
Dec
UX Design · Muscle Up India
Environmental UX report and glass door sticker design for MUI fitness brand. Applied Golden Ratio composition to real-world storefront design.
2026
Jan
Project Lead · FWS
Promoted to Project Lead at FWS. Managing a team of 3 — 1 senior + 2 juniors. 10K+ assets delivered. QC, client communication, automated scripts, project tracking.
2026
Feb
Gre-O · Created
Designed the full Gre-O brand identity and communication system for Designer Tomorrow! — AI-driven agri-gaming interface bridging digital screens and physical soil.
2026
Mar
3D · SaaS · Photography
3D product explorations, SaaS animations in Blender + After Effects, photography learning. New brand projects — FindO, Srivari brand guidelines.
2026
Apr
Gre-O Wins 1st Prize
Designer Tomorrow! by DOT School of Design. 1st Prize — Communication Design. The judges called out the identity system and visual language as the strongest in the cohort.
Now
May 2026
Still Building
Animation film assets. B&B store entrance illustration. Gre-O app prototype. Web motion exports as JSON at FWS. The work never stops.

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