Kunal Kundu

Kunal Kundu, an alumnus of India’s premier Design Institute, the National Institute of Design (NID) with a specialisation in Animation Film Design has 20 years of industry experience working as an artist, art consultant, animation film maker, illustrator, animated IP creator and design educator for various national and international organizations.

Kunal’s animation short film project ‘A Reason to Die for’ has been shown in festivals like International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Taiwan International Animation Festival (TIAF), Tehran International Animation Festival and Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF). Kunal’s work as an animation producer for Sesame Street, India has resulted in 17 short films for the TV programme ‘Galli Galli Sim Sim’, which has been aired on Cartoon Network and POGO channels. He has worked as the Creative Director for India’s first 4K animated feature film, APPU apart from creating award winning original animated IPs for animation series content.

Kunal’s signature art style is ‘Crumpled Paper Art’ in which he makes his creations by crumpling paper into art sculptures. His debut children’s book Wildlife on Paper: Animals At Risk Around The Globe has won quite a few recognitions. Notable among them are Eureka! Honor Award, Gold Medal Recipient of the Moonbeam Spirit Awards and Winner of India’s Best Design Awards presented by Design India. His paper sculptures have been exhibited as part of the prestigious On Paper Of Paper (OPOP) exhibition which has been showcased at the India Design ID show. Winning the Gold Award in the scientific illustration category for Global Illustration Award organised in conjunction with the International Information Content Industry Association (ICIA), the Frankfurt Book Fair and llluSalon, a global illustration resource platform and the Gold Medal in the creativity category for International Art Professionals Awards organised by Mondial Art Academia, France are a couple of other notable recognitions achieved by Kunal.