IA   ISHRAQ ASHTARIAN
Visual Designer User Experience Designer Interaction Designer  
A designer passionate about tackling complex challenges through innovative thinking, embracing the problem itself as the key to finding the right solution.

What Skills I Showcase Here?
Creative Talents / Hands-on Approach from Concepts Through Iterative Design / Exploring the Emerging World of AI and its Potential Future/ UX Instincs / Interaction Design / Tackling Complex Challenges Using Visuals / Animation / Innovative Thinking / Passion for Technology, Art, and Culture. 


Projects
1.  HeartStone
2. Exert Platforms
3. Dissolution: Entwined Realities
4. Q-Uniform
5. Raccoonada


Tools
Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Blender 3D, Premiere Pro

About
Inspirations


 
Concept Development

Emotional Starting Point
The emotional gravity of the California wildfires — fear, awe, loss — served as my conceptual entry point. I aimed to visually communicate this psychological weight through expressive textures, tonal extremes, and abstraction.

Expressive Potential of Printmaking
Inspired by the physicality and unpredictability of printmaking, I used each technique not just for form but as metaphor— carving as destruction, pressing as pressure, ink as smoke.

Influence & Dialogue
Drawing inspiration from Jasper Johns and my own previous abstract work, I created a dialogue between recognizable motifs (e.g., flames, trees, smoke) and altered, abstracted imagery — echoing the duality of fire as both beautiful and devastating.