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MN LOKESH

MN LOKESH

I am a Creative Director helping brands in their craft.

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Cover image for CURRENT — Insulated Water Bottle
CURRENT — Insulated Water Bottle / Lifestyle & Motion Built for people who move—seamless, monolithic, sculptural. A water bottle with no visible seams, no cap compromise, engineered as one continuous form. Ombré gradient from deep cobalt to open-sky blue, with warm coral accents that signal confidence. Wave symbolism drives every frame—the mark repeats as a flowing pattern system across the entire visual world, filling space with motion and depth. Photorealistic campaign imagery where the bottle lives in gradient light fields with kinetic presence. M N LOKESHWAR REDDY, Creative Director
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Cover image for Title: PULSE — Boutique Fitness
Title: PULSE — Boutique Fitness Brand Identity PULSE built its entire identity out of the thing members already read before class — the schedule board. A strength, cycle, and mobility studio where the grid, the type, and the icon system all come from one real chalk board, not a mood board. Chalk dust, board wear, and one instructor's face carry the brand across three rooms and every application. Where competitors manufacture a wellness aesthetic, PULSE photographed the object its members already trust. The result feels earned before you've taken a single class. M N LOKESHWAR REDDY, Creative Director
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Cover image for LUMEN — Boutique Screening Lounge
LUMEN — Boutique Screening Lounge Brand & Spatial Identity System LUMEN is a screening lounge for people who miss watching things together — part indie cinema, part social gathering space, built for curated film nights, live screenings, and community events. The visual direction is built from "The Beam" — the literal cone of projector light — treated as the brand's entire visual language, present in the space itself, not just printed on a poster. The logo's aperture glyph is replaced by a precise iris-blade shape derived from real camera/projector mechanics, carrying The Beam gradient (Projector Gold→Beam Violet) directional through every touchpoint. Color is Near-Black, Screen White, Projector Gold, Beam Violet, and Ember Red — modern and cinematic, never nostalgic, no vintage red-velvet or old-marquee clichés anywhere. Imagery is deep controlled darkness with The Beam as the singular dramatic light source cutting through it — real volumetric light, dust catching the beam, warm-to-violet color shift along its length. Real guests genuinely absorbed — laughing, leaning in, finding seats — never posed stock-photo energy. This is what shared cinema looks like when it's built modern. M N LOKESHWAR REDDY, Creative Director
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Cover image for AMBLE — Specialty Coffee Brand
AMBLE — Specialty Coffee Brand & Packaging System AMBLE is a specialty coffee brand for people who treat their morning cup as a pause, not a pit stop — slowing down built into every touchpoint. The visual direction is built from "The Trail" — a single unhurried line tracing the exact motion of a slow walk, a pour, or rising steam — running through everything. Color is Espresso Brown, Cream White, Clay Terracotta, Sage Green, and Warm Gold — strategic warmth without cliché, matte stand-up pouches with degassing valves as the core format. Typography is clean modern geometric sans with warm rounded terminals paired with neutral grotesk — confident, contemporary, zero old-world. Imagery is warm, soft-directional natural light — morning window light, golden hour — never hard flash. Real unhurried moments: hands wrapped around a cup, genuine half-awake softness, someone actually pausing. This is what slowing down looks like when it becomes a brand. M N LOKESHWAR REDDY, Creative Director
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