The Frame Fellowship 2026 campaign: Instagram carousel slides with a district map of Bengal and candidate cards, fanned around a phone on a deep teal ground

Frame Bengal

Data VisualisationPoster Design West Bengal 2026

Frame Bengal (framebengal.com) mentors students at West Bengal's state-level public colleges and universities. It pairs them one-to-one with researchers in academia and industry, and funds summer internships at institutions across India and beyond. The Frame Fellowship 2026 chose 34 candidates from thirteen districts of Bengal, and placed them with project mentors in India, the USA, Germany and France.

Studio 1947 was asked to make that result public. Not as an announcement, but as a story: who these students are, where they come from, and how far the fellowship reaches.

The Brief: Make the Data Tell the Journey

The Challenge

The raw material was a spreadsheet: 34 names, home districts, home colleges, host institutions. The design work was reading that data closely enough to find the story inside it. A student from Bangabasi College is headed to the University of North Dakota. Purulia and Cooch Behar sit on the same map as Harvard and CNRS Montpellier.

Every design decision followed from one idea. The fellowship is not a list of winners. It is a set of journeys: from a district, through a public college, to a lab somewhere in the world.

Data Read Deeply

We studied districts, colleges and host institutions until the pattern showed: local roots, global reach.

The Journey as the Unit

Each candidate is drawn as a route. Home college at the start, mentor institution at the arrow's end.

Districts on the Map

Jalpaiguri's one fellowship matters as much as Kolkata's seven, so every district is named and counted.

Data Visualization

A Map of 34 Futures

The anchor poster puts the whole fellowship on one glowing map of Bengal. Thirteen districts are labelled with their fellowship counts: seven in Kolkata, seven in South 24 Parganas, one each in Purulia, Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar. A header band tallies where the mentors work: 18 in India, 13 in the USA, 2 in Germany, 1 in France.

One image answers the three questions every reader brings: how many, from where, and going how far.

Frame Fellowship 2026 poster: district-by-district fellowship counts on a glowing map of West Bengal, with mentor affiliations across India, USA, Germany and France — The selection, in one poster: 34 candidates across thirteen districts, with mentors on three continents

34 Journeys, Card by Card

Candidate Cards

A ten-page carousel introduces every fellow by name. Each card carries the same quiet diagram: a dotted route from the candidate's home college to their host institution at the arrowhead. Jadavpur University to IIT Gandhinagar. Ramakrishna Mission Residential College to CNRS Montpellier. Bidhannagar College to Harvard.

The frosted-glass cards sit over the district map. So even in a name-by-name listing, the geography of the fellowship never leaves the frame.

Carousel page one: candidate cards for Adhiraj Saha, Pratyush Biswas, Swastik Sahoo and Arkaparno Das, each showing home college and host institution

Carousel page two of Frame Fellowship candidate cards with home colleges and destination institutions

Carousel page three of Frame Fellowship candidate cards over the glowing district map of Bengal

Carousel page four: candidate cards for Somiddhya Banerjee, Pratik Majumdar, Prothoma Dutta and Rupam Nandy

College Cards

The Cards in Motion

One card per fellow, all drawn to the same quiet grammar: a name, a district, and a dotted route from a Bengal college to the institution the fellowship leads to. The host campus itself is the card's background.

The repetition is the design. Because every card holds the same structure, what changes between them is exactly what matters: the names, and how far the routes reach.