Manolia D'Souza

music, baking, fanfiction,
driving, playing cards,
cooking, travelling.

comic sans, warm weather.

A designer and thinker who loves branding, logo design, typography, mixed media and advertising. Throw in a fascination for photography as well and you’ve got me.
Being South Asian and living in the Middle East gives me a whole new kind of perspective on things. I love details and I love experimenting with design.
The more opportunities I get to do that, the better. I was born in Bombay (what is now unfortunately known as Mumbai) and raised in Dubai.
I'm a bit of perfectionist who likes a good challenge as it prevents me from getting bored easily. I'm moody, stubborn, shy, loyal and somewhat dynamic.
I like to think of myself as a creative, there's no other definite word that I aspire to be defined as, since I enjoy various aspects of art and design from photography to writing, creative advertising to painting, I really do love it all. Numerous things fascinate me, hence I'm inspired by anything and everything around me.
As much as I love clean design, there’s also a love for grunge that resides in my creative mindset. It may not be as ‘popular’ as it used to but I still like to work with it (clearly).
I also have a tendency to trip up the stairs (yes it's true) and can be quite random (if you haven’t figured that one out already).

Some of the clients/groups I’ve worked for so far include:
Aldar Academies, Hilton Abu Dhabi, The First Group, Beach Rotana Abu Dhabi, VOX Cinemas, Holiday Inn Express, Backstage Dubai.