Kunel’s work examines how meaning accumulates around objects, systems, and images. Drawing from the visual languages of technology, branding, architecture, and everyday life, he recontextualises familiar forms as vessels for memory, speculation, and cultural projection.

His practice often begins with systems designed for utility, from signage and interfaces to typography and hardware, and explores what emerges when their original purpose is suspended. Alongside his studio practice, he has built a broader creative language that connects contemporary art, branding, and cultural production.

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Exhibitions

Projects

Ather
Simp My Ride
Adidas Originals EQT
Equipment
Absolut
Absolut Warhol
Almost Gods
Bricolage / Indian Art Fair
Casetify Travel Line
A travel object
Nike
Nike Delhi represent
Dell
Dell futurist
Budweiser
Budweiser streetwear
Casetify
Function as form
Monotype
Helvetica the NFT
Jeen-yuhs
Sundance hoodie

Press

‘Templating isn’t the enemy; mindless execution is: Kunel Gaur of Animal’
Social Samosa
July 18, 2025

‘India Art Fair Concludes Successful 16th Edition’
Designboom
February 17, 2025

‘Brutalism x Streetwear: Almost Gods & Kunel Gaur Will Collaborate at India Art Fair 2025’
Homegrown
February 06, 2025

‘Kunel Gaur’s sculptural works fuse function, technology, and brutalist aesthetics.’
Blur The Border
2025

‘The Collaborative World!’
Creative Gaga
2025

‘How Kunel Gaur’s art is a dialogue between Brutalist architecture, pop culture and time’
DesignTO
August 14, 2024

‘Exhibition at India Art Fair digitally explores urban details’
Architect and Interiors India
February 12, 2023

‘Helvetica, the world’s most popular font, serves as a unifying force in a new NFT collection’
It’s Nice That
July 19, 2022

‘Kunel Gaur uses everyday material in his solo show at Method art space’
STIRworld
March 18, 2022

‘How Kunel Gaur’s art is a dialogue between Brutalist architecture, pop culture and time’
Architectural Digest
February 16, 2022

‘Ad Agencies in Web 3.0: Get crackin'’
Forbes India
February 3, 2022

‘Information Architecture’
Platform Mag
January 5, 2022

‘In-Progress Lettering Series: Kunel Gaur’
The One Club
April 9, 2021

‘Kunel Gaur’s Generic Brands’
Vogue Taiwan
March 16, 2020

‘Defining a New Indian Aesthetic’
TEDx
October, 2019

‘Three top creatives from India to serve as judges for The One Show 2020’
BestMediaInfo
December 4, 2019

‘Who is this Animal’
afaqs!
December 20, 2018

‘Design in India: featuring Animal’
DESK
June 13, 2018

‘Taxi Fabric Project’
Designboom
April 19, 2015

Signal

Projects

Post-physical

Kunel Gaur

Kunel Gaur is a multidisciplinary artist and founder whose practice moves across art, design, and culture. His work explores the emotional and symbolic life of objects, systems, and materials, often blurring the line between function and presence.

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Kunel Gaur is a multidisciplinary artist and creative director working across objects, images, systems, and cultural memory. His practice moves between physical and post-physical forms, using industrial materials, functional graphics, typography, hardware, light, code, and found visual language to examine how objects behave after their original purpose begins to dissolve.

His work often sits in the space between the engineered and the emotional. An object loses its function and gains a presence. A consumer object becomes evidence. A character becomes a signal. Through this post-human lens, he looks at the afterlife of design, where the things built for use begin to carry presence, mythology, and memory.

Alongside his studio practice, Kunel is the co-founder of Animal, one of India’s most influential independent creative agencies, where he has shaped future-facing projects for brands, technology platforms, cultural institutions, and global collaborators. He is also the founder of Indianama, a non-profit platform that brings together artists and designers to reimagine India through collective visual storytelling.

His work extends into augmented reality, NFTs, digital objects, product experiments, apparel, public art, exhibitions, and collaborations with brands including Nike, Adidas Originals, Ather, Dell, Monotype, Casetify, Absolut, Budweiser, and Almost Gods. Across formats, the interest remains the same: how images, objects, interfaces, and systems accumulate meaning over time.

Kunel has spoken about the evolving Indian visual language through his TEDx talk, Defining a New Indian Aesthetic. His wider practice continues to move between art, design, technology, and culture, building a world where the familiar is reconstructed into something slightly displaced, slightly future, and already remembered.

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