Colourthattravels.

I'm Hira Bostan — illustrator and graphic designer. Art has always been my way of expressing stories, emotions and ideas: brand identity, packaging and illustration for people who'd rather be noticed than fit in.

Every project gets its own palette. So does every page here.

Scroll through and the background changes to the colour that defined each brief. Flat vector illustration, luxury branding, book covers and shop builds — all in one place.

The long way round

A flat-vector poster series about walking into places that don't have a map yet. Layered mountains, a single winding path and a palette that shouldn't work — teal, coral and blush — but does.

Flat vector illustration of a hiker with a backpack walking a winding path into teal mountains, framed by pink and red tropical plants

The Sakb House

Brand identity for a South Asian bridal jewellery house. A high-contrast Didone wordmark paired with a hand-lettered script, set against warm sand so the gold does the talking. Delivered as lookbook pages and a double-sided business card.

Lookbook page for The Sakb House Jewellery with a serif wordmark and four photographs of gold jewellery on a sand backgroundFront and back of The Sakb House business card, one side with the wordmark, the other with a QR code over dried roses

Ceraphem

Logo, swan mark and packaging system for a silk hair-accessory brand. The signature is a twisted-fabric emblem that recolours across the range — blush, sage, mauve — so each SKU is recognisable on the shelf from across the room.

Four dark plum tiles showing the Ceraphem gold wordmark, a gold swan mark, packaged silk scrunchies in tubes, and a twisted fabric emblem in four colourways

The Brooks

Full-wrap book cover for a noir thriller — front, spine and back. One light source, one silhouette, one colour that isn't brown. Everything else stays in shadow.

Full book cover spread for The Brooks by J.K. Stones showing a plague-doctor figure under a single lamp on a dark brown background

Purple Mountain Majesty

A phone wallpaper built around a single Pantone chip. Balloons cast shadows on a swatch that doesn't exist, and a small figure reaches for them. Minimal, but every shadow was placed by hand.

Purple phone wallpaper with two white balloons floating above a tilted Pantone colour chip labelled Purple Mountain Majesty

Ridge at golden hour

Eleven shades of orange, stacked into mountain ranges. A study in atmospheric depth using nothing but tone — the further away a ridge is, the closer it gets to the sky.

Layered orange landscape illustration with a large sun, mountain ridges receding into haze and a silhouetted figure on a rock

TheShee coffee

Logo and shipping-box print for a small-batch pour-over roaster. Beans fall from the wordmark straight into the dripper — the whole brand story in one line drawing that prints in a single colour on kraft.

A hand taping a cardboard box printed with the TheShee logo and a line drawing of coffee beans falling into a pour-over dripper

The Rich Collection

Shopify storefront for a luxury occasion-wear boutique. Product photography direction, theme customisation and a mobile-first layout so the shoes look as good on a phone as they do in the window.

Desktop view of The Rich Collection online store showing a green embellished shoe and matching bag product pageMobile view of the same store showing a yellow embellished shoe product

Studies in paint

Digital painting and drawing — a Supra from behind, a skull, portraits built from grain and a single colour. Heavier and darker than the client work, and the place where the brushwork gets pushed.

Loose digital painting of the rear of a Toyota Supra with glowing red tail lights on a charcoal background
Black and white portrait drawing of a woman with a large afro and red-lined eyes, on a hatched background
Grainy purple-toned drawing of a skull in three-quarter view
Dark red single-colour silhouette portrait of a woman in sunglasses

Sketchbook, August 2025

Quick daily drawings on the iPad — no undo, no cleanup. A coffee machine, a snail, the cat that lives on the wall, whatever was in front of me. This is where the illustration work starts.

Loose red-line sketch of a man in glasses over a speckled backgroundTeal line sketch of an espresso machineOrange sketch of a snailPencil-style sketch of a cat resting its paw over a ledgeSketch of a telegraph pole against a blue sky with cloudsMonochrome drawing of a tree beneath large cumulus clouds

More illustration and marks

Character work, badges, fan pieces and logos. Mostly vector, occasionally grainy on purpose.

Vector portrait of a scowling man in a baseball cap on a dark red background
Vector portrait
Circular badge illustration of a small castle on a red cliff above the sea at sunset
Cliff house badge
Illustration of a masked spirit at a table with tea and cake, a fan piece
Fan poster, film series
Grainy retro illustration of people in an open-top vintage car in front of a farm
Vintage road trip
Cartoon firefly with big eyes looking up at a bright star in a night sky
Character study
Poster with green falling code and the words Escape Matrix
Escape Matrix poster
Soft illustration of a crescent moon seen through a window with curtains
Moon through the window
Close-up illustration of a hand painting another hand's fingernail with polish
Nail salon illustration