Our founder, Roshnee, spoke about cultural identity, design and other interesting things as one of 16 interesting speakers at the 15th year celebration of the Interesting talks held in Conway Hall, London.

An Ayurvedic brand crafted for the millennials, Ayuga’s branding by us is based on balance: balance of modern and ancient, of recipes and rituals. Our design approach was inspired by Ayurveda’s representation through history and explored its modern versions through textures & colours.

Nestled in the up and coming plush neighbourhood of Alibaug, Avās is a wellness retreat that establishes a new-age meaning of seaside luxury. Local’s insights placed Avās as a luxury ‘baugh’, taking inspiration from the surrounding landscape and cultural wealth.

As the French makeup giant celebrated Diwali with fervour, they wanted to craft a campaign that is elegant yet memorable for Indian consumers. We took inspiration from Diwali motifs, rituals and quintessential design elements, rendered them with a modern touch for this campaign.

A fast-growing micro-financing company, Capri Global believes that when one person grows, the entire community grows with them. We dived deeper into this insight to extend their strategy to design, creating a new logo for the brand that fits Indian sensibilities and emotions.

A D2C lifestyle brand, Zouk’s rebranding involved helping them dive deeper into their cultural roots and embrace them. As the brand steps into new categories and geographies, Local’s intervention helped them align with their India-inspired approach and cruelty-free mission.

Our Founder & Creative Director, Roshnee Desai spoke to HELLO! India Magazine about her inspiration & journey of starting LOCAL with an aim to take local design global.

We are proud to announce that our first clients, Dr. Sheths for indian skin have been acquired by (our other clients) Honasa (of Mama Earth fame).

LOCAL is privileged to have designed one of India’s most iconic D2C skincare brands and to see its next big leap!

A restaurant brand we recently conceptualised and designed has been listed in the 24 best New restaurants in the world by Timeout London!

A testament to great food matching a great brand story.

Roshnee took over the indian creative women account for a day to run us through her day and creative mindspace. She also doled out some advice and industry insights which was received fabulously by the community.

Our creative director was  invited to be a part of the Jury at the Foxglove Awards 2021

Our founder, Roshnee ticks a big life goal by being invited to speak at the prestigious School of Visual Arts in New York where many great design stalwarts have taught! She conducted a session with with the MFA Interaction Design batch of SVA NYC on How To Design With Cultural Context.

Our Founder and Creative Director, 

Roshnee Desai is taking a one week long

course on Visual Culture Heritage at 

National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.

On 26th January, India's Republic Day, LOCAL launched its newsletter. Signup to LOCAL Labs to subscribe.

We participated in Berlin based design exhibition Indernet which focussed on showcasing creatives from the Indian diaspora. 

Roshnee Desai was invited to participate in the University of the Arts, London Alumni Association India's first online festival - BluePrint on 13th December 2020. She was part of the panel discussion, 'Mindful Insights of the Creative mind' and hosted the discussion 'The Brand and the Creative'

One of India's leading contemporary youth culture platforms, Homegrown cover's LOCAL Labs' project 'The Indian Graphic Design Story' in an exclusive story.

We participated in a lively discussion about the role of design and branding in enhancing India as a tourism destination along with Saurav Roy and Firdaus Variava

Packaging of the World : A website which has been the design industry’s go to reference over the years for all things packaging featured our little gem from 2 years ago: our Diwali packaging for The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. India.

LOCAL Labs gets featured in the Local newspaper Mumbai Times - India

We held our first collaboration with Open Collabs in Germany inviting over 300 Indian designers to create one of India's biggest graphic design poster series with over 5 lakh posters on the themes of 'Local Businesses' and 'Localities.' Stoked to have our local Marathi newspaper cover it.

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