Bio

Karaka Singh is a senior Design and Visual Communication student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is a hard working student and wants to follow in the footsteps of his father, who did a lot of work in typography, design, and painting. His interests include illustration as well as creating products that are visually understandable. Karaka is skilled at using a range of media to create his work, from digital media like adobe, to coding and web design. Besides design, he loves photography, especially landscape and night photography, which you will find him doing in his free time.

Project Description

On August 5,2012 the shootings at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., left six dead and turned attention to the Sikh community, a religious group with a relatively small but growing population in the United States whose members are often mistakenly identified as Muslim. My project focuses on sikhism as a religion as well as some of its history and customs. There are roughly 300,000 sikhs currently living in America and more than 27 million living in the world. My project hopes to start a dialog and answer common questions about my religion such as why we wear a turban and the importance of our hair.

Research Question

Who are sikhs and their religion?