Onindo Ahmed
Brand Strategist, Designer & Design Educator
I started drawing professionally at eight as a cartoonist for Prothom Alo. More than two decades later, my work has moved far beyond drawing. I work across brands, businesses, products, communication, and creative education.
I am interested in the space where design meets strategy and where creativity can create meaningful change.
Design drives change
Onindo Ahmed is a Bangladeshi brand strategist, designer, and design educator with over two decades of experience.
He started drawing professionally at the age of eight as a cartoonist for Prothom Alo. He later co-authored the published comic book Gunda-Panda.
His professional work spans branding, communication design, design thinking, product strategy, storytelling, and business. He has been part of ventures including Yellow Raptor, helping build brands and creative systems.
Through Thinkdemy, he teaches and mentors creative professionals and students. He has also delivered workshops, training sessions, and academic sessions for institutions including NSU SBE, ULAB, IBA, DU, BYLC, SME Foundation, and others.
His work is rooted in the belief that design can influence how people think, how businesses operate, and how meaningful change is created.
I help businesses understand what they stand for, how they should position themselves, and how that thinking should translate into a coherent brand.
→From visual identity to campaigns and communication systems, I work on making ideas understandable, distinctive, and memorable.
→I work at the intersection of business, product, brand, and user experience, helping turn ideas into clearer propositions and stronger products.
→I use design as a way of understanding problems, finding opportunities, and developing better solutions.
→Good ideas need good stories. I work with businesses and people to find the narratives that make their work easier to understand and harder to forget.
→Teaching has been a significant part of my career. I work with students and professionals to help them develop better ways of thinking, making, and communicating.
→My career began with drawing and illustration and gradually expanded into branding, strategy, communication, business, and education.
I have worked across creative studios, startups, businesses, educational institutions, and entrepreneurial ventures.
Professional cartoonist from childhood.
Co-author of a published Bangladeshi comic book.
The creative industry has moved from analogue craft to digital tools to AI automation. I've worked through every shift, and contributed to its evolution along the way.
I started at eight, drawing and writing cartoons for Prothom Alo. Kids my age read them. Everything was drawn by hand, then carried to a cyber café or photo studio to be scanned on a drum scanner. Yes, scanners were drums!
The idea comes first. Then you find a way to get it onto the page.
Artists I knew said nothing replaces drawing by hand, and that digital was ruining everything. They weren't wrong, and I still miss those days. But time doesn't stand still, so I moved to CorelDRAW and kept going.
Keep up with what's new instead of mourning what's gone.
Graphic tablets and Photoshop became my daily setup, all of it running on Windows 8, live tiles included.
Every new setup is a chance to bring something old back.
Procreate on the iPad Pro became my tool for digital drawing.
A new tool is just a new way to draw.
When AI arrived, I got early access before many others. For a while I had custom GPTs of my own. They're gone now.
Tools can disappear. What you learned from them doesn't.
Now I build my own processes from scratch and use local models to develop AI products. The work gets done much faster.
Learn slowly when the work needs depth. Learn quickly when it needs speed.
That's the real advantage of starting early. As long as I stay curious, I won't grow old before my time.
Through Thinkdemy, I have taught and mentored creative professionals and students across different stages of their careers.
I have also delivered workshops, training programs, lectures, and academic sessions for:
My approach to education is practical and industry-oriented. I am interested in helping people develop not only better creative skills, but better ways of thinking.
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A selection of interviews, articles, and media appearances featuring my work, ideas, and involvement in Bangladesh's creative community.
An interview exploring how artists and designers think about generative AI, image-making, creativity, and the future of visual work.
→A feature covering a gathering of cartoonists and the creative community in Dhaka.
→A video conversation featuring my work and perspective as a cartoonist, designer, and creative professional.
→Coverage of Thinkdemy and its work around design education and the Rejected 2018 design exhibition.
→Daydreaming wannabe philosopher. Thinking in the opposite direction.
I believe design can change how people understand things, how businesses behave, and how ideas travel.
Good design is not decoration added at the end of a process. It can shape the process itself. That is why my work moves between strategy and execution, business and creativity, teaching and making.
For brand strategy, design, education, collaborations, speaking engagements, or interesting problems worth solving.
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