Ms. Satabdi Jena

Ms. Satabdi Jena graduated form Pearl in 2009, the third batch of Communication Design at Pearl Academy, Naraina. She believes in 'Everyone needs a laboratory and Amazing things only come from Experimentation' and 'Travel as much as and as frequent as you can'.

She was an average student and belonging to a non-business oriented family where she had to take up Science just because of the family pressure, but then she could not take up science and hence switched to commerce along with mathematics. After completing her school life, she had to decide on to her college. She applied for Architecture (because of her mother), and cleared it, she moved to Manipal for her graduation, but soon dropped it and came back to Delhi. She was then counselled by her parents and then finally walked down to Pearl Academy for doing her graduation in Communication Design. While at Pearl, she took up various client projects as well as started as a freelancer.

Then soon after her graduation, she realised that Printing, Packaging and Editing was her major field of interest. She moved to the Boston University for doing her Masters there, while studying she took up 4 jobs (an TA at the university campus, College tour guide, made subs at Subway and Panda Express) as well as started taking Creative writing classes and learnt violin (as a hobby). She faced a lot of problems like cultural change, food and accent. After completing her graduation she took up a job at a TV company in New York City, where she had to do Graphic Design, Set Design and work in the Production Team; she left the job after 8 months and then moved down to India (New Delhi).

She opened up a studio here but did not know how to go about it. Later realised that she had to get everything in correct order before pitching for clients. She then converted a room at her home in to her office place, got her company's name registered, then decided on the company's goals, created a team, fetched for good vendors and began pitching for clients. This is how she started her life from Pearl to the outside World.

She now owns a Design Studio AKAAR at Mehar Chand Market, Lodhi Road. She even got her work exhibited at various exhibitions and also came to the CMF Festival'15 at Pearl to showcase her work.

She has definitely inspired me and I'm sure most of us. Her ideas have been creative and inspiring. Her thoughts have a clean and vast showcase of her qualifications.