Cover art illustration for "Running Away from ELEPHANTS"

Cover art illustration for the Speaking Tiger Publishing's upcoming book - Rauf Ali's novel, "Running Away from ELEPHANTS". Illustration by Kavita Singh Kale and graphic design by Maithili Doshi-Alphale

 

Cover art illustration for "Gurgaon Diaries"

Cover art illustration for Rupa Publication's upcoming book - Debeshi Gooptu's novel, "Gurgaon Diaries". Illustration by Kavita Singh Kale and graphic design by Mugdha Sadhwani

Cover art for Mridula Garg's "The Last Email"

Cover art illustration for Speaking Tiger Publishing's upcoming book - Mridula Garg's novel, "The Last Email". Illustration by Kavita Singh Kale and graphic design by Maithili Doshi-Aphale

New cover art illustration

New cover art illustration for Speaking Tiger Publishing's upcoming book - Easterine Kire's novel, "Don't Run, My Love". Illustration by Kavita Singh Kale and graphic design by Maithili Doshi-Aphale

Recent cover art illustration

Recently finished this cover art illustration for Speaking Tiger publishing's upcoming book - Indra Bahadur Rai's novel, "There's A Carnival Today", translated from the Nepali original,"आज रमिता छ" ("Aaj Ramita Chha"), to English by Manjushree Thapa, published by Speaking Tiger Books. Illustration by Kavita Singh Kale and design by Maithili Doshi-Aphale

Sunday Surprise!

Art from the graphic novel titled "17 Seen Unseen" written and illustrated by Kavita Singh Kale and Santosh Kale, published by UNESCO MGIEP, is part of the article "A FOR ART. C FOR CHANGE" by Rachel Lopez in the Hindustan Times national newspaper today! Happy to be sharing this space with some amazing Indian artists :) 

A for art. C for change. Kids’ books are getting darker, cooler, nuttier

Comic page from the book- "Daily Dilli" (WIP)

"Frail-Vigor", Watercolour on paper (Series of drawings created during the Trelex residency in Switzerland)

Drawings created during the Trelex residency in Switzerland

My Garden

Alienbots (Series of illustrations)

A comic approach to SDGs: 17 Seen Unseen, a graphic novel for 12+ children

A comic approach to SDGs: Seen Unseen 

UNESCO MGIEP in partnership with India Habitat Centre and the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, inaugurated an art installation on the Sustainable Development Goals at the Jor Bagh Metro Station on 5^th of December, 2016. The art installation consists of extracts from a comic book produced by UNESCO MGIEP to raise awareness about the SDGs. The comic book is a story of three young people taking on the problems of the world like poverty, illiteracy and so on. The world problems have been depicted as monsters.

The exhibition was inaugurated by Anantha Duraiappah, Director, UNESCO MGIEP along with the creators of the comic book Kavita Kale and Santosh Kale in the presence of eminent Indian film actor Manoj Bajpai. The striking images piqued on the curiosity of the passers by and got them interested in the SDGs. Daily commuters of the Delhi Metro could be seen clicking pictures of the stark black and white images of the comic.
At the inauguration ceremony of the art installation, Anantha Durraiappah said, “education can happen through a range of media and UNESCO MGIEP has chosen comics to have a wider outreach. Our target is to get common people, especially the young, interested in the Sustainable Development Goals.”
About the Comic: Seen Unseen
To make the SDGs a reality, it is essential that we adopt creative approaches to solving world problems. At UNESCO MGIEP, we have developed a graphic novel to reach young people, who we believe, are the torch bearers for this change. To sow the ideas of peace, sustainability and global citizenship, it is important that we speak to young people in ways they find interesting. The displays here are the result of this idea. UNESCO MGIEP engaged two creative minds, Kavita Singh and Santosh Kale who sat with our team comprising of academicians, scientists, educators and freethinkers and have created this fictional narrative.
If you like this idea and would like to talk to us further, write at monster@unesco.org.
Download here: 17SeenUnseen