Architect Ashik Ikbal is a facile doodler. Like most of the other doodlers his drawings made at his subconscious mind while preoccupied with other activities like chatting with fellow colleagues, talking over the phone, attending at a meeting or sitting in any passive environment. Though predominantly subconscious, yet most of his doodles show mindful display of spontaneous marks of his intuitive feelings.

Ikbal’s doodle works include patterns and symbols commonly made up of straight and zigzag lines, dots and geometric shapes suggest his architectonic mind to get on with things. In terms of expression they are mostly interesting overlay of soft, free flowing strokes announce somewhat of his latent emotional conflicts or unexpressed feelings in symbolic form. He usually picks up any available media for doodling; a graphite pencil or a very regular pen or sometimes mixing up both. Though doodling is a subconscious work; but for him the act enrapts him in composition what keeps him moving with architectural practice and teaching composition ideas to students.

Ashik Ikbal, is an Architect and Assistant professor, currently teaching in Architecture Dept. of American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB). He is a former graduate of Khulna University, Bangladesh and KU Leuven, Belgium. He has been involved in teaching since year 2000 and his academic interests govern around Psychological Mechanism of Perception & Creation, Education, Urbanism and Urban-Sociology and Responsive Design.