Who’s that?

Portrait of a woman with long dark hair wearing a black top, neutral facial expression, plain white background.

Hi! I’m August Hattiangadi (Hut-yung-uh-dee).

I enjoy telling and hearing stories. I take myself and others seriously! I love receiving criticism. I don’t know any other way to be, really.

I’m a student at UCLA’s Design and Media Arts program, with a minor in Gender Studies. I’m also a Director of (Fashion) Design for FAST at UCLA. The ever-expanding list of things I make includes: design systems, garments, graphics, music, music videos, performance art, print media, video essays, video games, and written works.

If you don’t know where to start, ask me about:

- How to motivate people to do something they’ve never done before

- What my peers are up to on Instagram (2026), John Berger’s Ways of Seeing (1972), and what they have in common

- Why everyone is a dj right now

- Ontological approaches to feminist theory

I’m on a break from Instagram right now, but send me an email or text me! (The only person I still call is my grandma, sorry!)