Studio
FirstLight is a design studio in Mumbai working across brand, space, and stage. The brands people remember are the ones where strategy, relationships, and craft come from people who have actually shipped at scale, not just pitched it. That is how we built the studio.
Four specialisms, brought together as one team.
We are a small team, each trained inside a different discipline: design and spatial fabrication, brand strategy and client servicing, international growth, business development, and strategy and operations. Most studios are strong in one of these. FirstLight was built so a client gets all of them together, not separate vendors.
Five people, each carrying a different specialism and the track record to back it.
Design & Spatial
Design and spatial fabrication, from concept to the on-site build. Nachiket has delivered exhibition stalls, conference stages, and full identity systems for brands including AMNS India, Huhtamaki, VVF, and Samvad, and is trained in advanced VFX and animation. He runs the work from first sketch to the night before doors open.
Brand Strategy & Servicing
Brand strategy and client servicing, built inside the agency world. Shrushti has worked across Ogilvy and Leo Burnett on brands including Bournvita, Tang, Kotex, Sun Pharma, PhonePe, KTM, and Jeep, and more recently on live and experiential properties in sport. She keeps the idea tied to the business it has to serve.
International & Growth
International reach and business growth. Rushin has built across Australia, Europe, and the GCC, working with brands including Watson Farley & Williams, TATA AIG, Panasonic, and Qube Cinema. He handles the operations and the client relationships that take a studio beyond one market.
Business Development
Business development and revenue growth. Yash has spent three years building pipeline across the Australian market, working in accounting, taxation, IT services, and digital transformation, engaging directors and C-suite stakeholders from first outreach through qualification. He handles how work comes in, and makes sure the conversation starts properly.
Strategy & Operations
Strategy, operations, and the commercial side of running a studio. Siddharth has led strategy at a Mumbai fintech, setting up departments, building financial and reconciliation systems, handling regulatory compliance, and negotiating partnerships and funding. He keeps the business behind the creative work structured and accountable.
Most studios are good at the visual or good at the relationship, rarely both. We have sat on the client side managing budgets and sign-offs, scaled a company from the ground up, and stood on the fabrication floor the night before doors open. The result is briefs that are designed to be built.