Gully Boy

A bilingual typeface and merchandise proposal for Gully Boy.

A merchandising proposal for Gully Boy, developed with Varun Mehta and Jeet Soneji for Urban Monkey India and Yash Gangwal, in collaboration with Excel Entertainment. The pitch was rejected; the work is presented here as a design study rather than released film merchandise.

The team explored the visual language of hip-hop through a bold geometric alphabet. Tight counters and narrow gaps suggest the streets and lanes associated with the film. A complementary Hindi typeface carries the same formal logic into a bilingual system.

The archive follows that system from letter construction and sketchbook tests to graphic compositions and proposed apparel and accessory applications.

Participants Varun MehtaJeet SonejiAdvaita Kelkar
Collaborating organisation Excel Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
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Gully Boy — Latin letter construction; project archive from Varun Mehta.

Varun Mehta
Varun Mehta
Advaita Kelkar
Advaita Kelkar

Original case study and project archive Varun Mehta — Gully Boy