Arsh Raziuddin

Arsh Raziuddin on working across multiple worlds

Balancing book and magazine design, alongside illustration projects and working at Christie’s auction house, Arsh Raziuddin’s work requires adapting to multiple needs across a range of media

Based in Brooklyn, New York, Arsh Raziuddin is a designer, art director and illustrator, as well as the VP of global creative at auction house Christie’s. She’s designed book covers for a range of publishers, and has been art director on magazines, including her own, while regularly working in collage as a printmaker.

In a way, much of her work – and approach – is encapsulated by the term ‘mixed-media’, spanning all areas of graphic and editorial design and revealing itself in a variety of colourful executions.

Collage was an early draw for Raziuddin, who graduated in graphic design and printmaking from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2013. “Beyond just being drawn to it, I think growing up around Bollywood’s explosion of colour, texture and camp, plus the intricate ornamentation of Quranic script, all feed into this mess in my brain,” she says.

Top (detail) and above: two of four prints made for Healing Our Homeland and Nation Station fundraiser