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Spatial experience
Space, movement, material and atmosphere—composed into something people can feel.
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Spatial / Experience / Strategy
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Ideas becoming physical
SAMIRAJ PAHWA
Spatial + Experience DesignerCreative Strategist
I make ideas
walk-in-able.
Turning brand thoughts into spaces, stories and beautifully strange things people can actually step inside.
INTRO FILM / 00:60 NOW PLAYINGMeet Samiraj →
make it
memorable ↗
memorable ↗
India ↔ Everywhere
Freelance / 2026
SPACE×STORY×MATERIAL×MEMORY×
About / the short version
I design spaces, experiences and brand worlds that give ideas a physical form.
01 / The space between
Somewhere between strategy, design and making.
My work moves from hospitality operations to brand strategy, exhibitions and independent projects. That mix makes me ask two things at once:
What should this idea mean?How do we actually make it happen?
Good design is what people feel, notice, remember—and talk about afterwards.
What I do / choose your adventure
One idea.
Many ways in.
From the thought behind a brand to the room it eventually lives in—I connect the dots until the idea can be felt.
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Brand experience
Taking identity beyond graphics and turning it into a physical, memorable world.
03
Exhibition design
Making products, stories and brands easier to understand through environments.
04
Creative strategy
Finding the idea behind the idea, then connecting brand, audience and experience.
05
Visual storytelling
Building narratives through objects, graphics, materials and tiny visual clues.
06
Creative direction
Carrying the thought from first scribble through development, build and launch.
Selected work / formative chaos
Things I've
helped become real.
01
Hospitality / Operations / Experience
Nomads Café
CASE FILE / 01ENTER THEPROJECT WORLDOPENWhere the understanding began: an experience is not designed only on paper. It is made by every interaction a person has with a space.
“Before designing spaces, I learned how people experience them.”
Project archive / drag with your eyes
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Strategy / Identity / Spatial storytelling
Fabric Pandit
CASE FILE / 02ENTER THEPROJECT WORLDOPENA cross-functional playground spanning brand strategy, customer journeys, packaging, exhibitions and the on-ground problem solving that makes ideas real.
“A brand can become an entire environment.”
Project archive / drag with your eyes
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Concept / Props / DIY fabrication
Experiential Worlds
CASE FILE / 03ENTER THEPROJECT WORLDOPENHalloween, Christmas, Pokémon and Jumanji-inspired environments built through found materials, resourcefulness and a little beautiful chaos.
“Make another world with what you actually have.”
Project archive / drag with your eyes
04 / Loom Collective
One exhibition identity. Four cities. A world designed to travel without becoming repetitive.
A brand that
learned to move.
01
Surat
Build the foundation
02
Ahmedabad
Take the identity somewhere new
03
Kochi
Design around uncertainty
04
Hyderabad
Take the experience further
Municipal boundary geometry / SMC GIS + DataMeet India
“The brand wasn't just being displayed anymore.
It was being experienced.”
Independent
experiment!
experiment!
05 — Building now
KAREGAR/I
A physical home for digital-first brands.
By the karigars,
for their karigari.
An independent project exploring what happens when online-first brands get a physical world of their own: a curated community for founders, makers and audiences creating culture beyond the screen.
- Brand experience
- Community building
- Physical brand worlds
- Curated discovery
01Online identity→02Physical world→03Real community
How I work / no magic formula
Think it.Translate it.Make it.Test it.
Think
Understand the idea, the people, the context and the problem.
ThinkTranslate
Turn an abstract thought into a visual, spatial or experiential direction.
TranslateMake
Experiment with materials, objects, space and whatever is available.
MakeExperience
Put it in front of people and see what actually happens.
ExperienceSometimes the best solution is the one you can figure out, build and make work. — that's the fun part
In the making / field footage
Not just the
final frame.
The tests, the conversations, the last-minute fixes and the hands-on chaos that turn an idea into an experience.
actual working moments →FIELD LOG / 01:16CLICK THE FILM
Field notes / everywhere
I collect
places.
Old buildings. Markets. Signage. Scrap materials. Objects. Textures. Temporary structures. People making things with whatever they have.
Most people walk past it.
I take it with me.
Personal archiveOngoing ↗
Old buildings
Memory in the walls
Odd signage
How a place speaks
Local markets
Systems in motion
Scrap material
Potential, not waste
Found objects
Stories with edges
Temporary things
Made to disappear