Graphic designer, based in India

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Five years designing brand identities, packaging, and social content for cosmetics, kid's products, pet care, and editorial. Currently a textile digital designer at Gagan Silk Mill, Surat.

ToolsIllustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, CorelDRAW, Premiere Pro, After Effects
FocusLogo & brand identity, packaging, social content, typography
Contactmanishawakode16@gmail.com
Portrait of Manisha Wakode

About me

I'm a detail-oriented graphic designer with five years of experience across digital and print media comfortable moving between a logo system, a product package, and a month of social content for the same brand. My path here started sideways: a diploma in dress designing and a degree in fashion coordination, before a certification in graphic design redirected that eye for material and pattern toward branding and visual identity. I keep building on both I'm currently a textile digital designer by day and take on identity and content projects alongside it.

Skills

  • Logo & brand identity
  • Packaging design
  • Social media content
  • Typography & colour theory
  • Photo & video editing

Education

  • Certified Graphic Designer Pashium The Design School, Pune
  • BA, Dress Making & Fashion Coordination Kolhapur University
  • Diploma, Dress Designing & Garment Manufacturing Pune University

Experience

  • Textile Digital Designer
  • Gagan Silk Mill Pvt Ltd, Surat 2023–Present
  • Textile Digital Designer
  • Shreeji Mill Pvt Ltd, Surat 2020–2023

Selected work

Six projects spanning brand identity, packaging, and content design a mix of client-style briefs built to show range across categories.

Brand identity & packaging

Floria

A cosmetic brand built around softness and ritual. The wordmark folds a rose into the "O" of Floria, and that motif carries through the packaging, gift bag, and print collateral a feminine identity meant to feel elegant rather than decorative.

TypeCosmetic brand
DeliverablesLogo, packaging, print
TypefaceHeroeau Elegant
Floria packaging
Floria packaging
Brand identity & merchandise

Totopop

A kids' brand identity designed to read as play before it reads as type — every letterform doubles as a character. Built out across a full merchandise line: apparel, tote bags, plush toys, and packaging, all sharing one rainbow palette.

TypeKids' brand
DeliverablesLogo, merchandise, packaging
PaletteMulticolour, high-contrast
Brand identity & retail

Pristine

"Polished to Pawfection" — a pet spa identity combining a paw print and a dog's face into one handwritten-style mark. The teal and black palette was chosen to feel fresh and clinical without losing warmth, and carries through storefront signage, grooming products, and retail packaging.

TypePet care / spa
DeliverablesLogo, signage, retail packaging
TypefaceSweet Kitty
Pristine pet spa storefront signage with teal logo
Instagram post design for a skincare brand shown on a phone
Social media content

Skincare content

A set of Instagram posts and stories for a skincare line's summer product line, built around bright fruit-toned graphics and product-first layouts designed to stop the scroll while staying legible at feed size.

TypeSkincare / beauty
DeliverablesFeed posts, story templates
PlatformInstagram
Social media content

Plant shop content

Instagram content for an indoor plant shop, leaning on real texture and greenery rather than heavy graphics — the design work here is mostly restraint: a clean grid, a quiet wordmark, and layouts that let the plants do the talking.

TypePlant & home retail
DeliverablesFeed posts, profile design
PlatformInstagram
Instagram post design for a plant shop shown on a phone mockup
She Travel Alone magazine cover, editorial layout design
Editorial layout

She Travel Alone

A magazine concept about the emotions and freedom of solo female travel — courage, independence, and self-discovery told through travel stories. I designed the cover and inside spreads, pairing a bold masthead with documentary-style photography.

TypeEditorial magazine
DeliverablesCover, inside spreads
FormatPrint layout

Where this eye came from

Before branding and packaging, I trained in dress design and fashion coordination — years spent thinking about fabric, pattern, and how something looks on a body in motion, not just on a page. That background still shapes how I design: I care about how a mark holds up in the real world, on a tube or a storefront sign, not just in a mockup.

I work mostly in Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign, with Premiere Pro and After Effects for anything that needs to move.