Karan is both an industrial designer and an engineer. His interest is in experimentation with materials and making. Stumbling upon an interesting making process and being able to produce a new design out of it always amazes him. 

By discovering what design could offer people, Karan shifted his work from engineering to design ever since. He feels that there are so many things in our everyday life to improve that can help people be happier, inspired, safer, or socially equal. Contributing to a design practice of discovery and relevance would be the greatest achievement of his work.

Experimentation with the making process has always be included in his work. Observe how material changes through different procedures gave him ideas on what it could become. Karan always makes sure that his studio practice has enough room open for new things to happen through the making. And to make sure that innovation will take place, he embraces all outcomes in the making process including failure and success.

Failure is celebrated in Karan’s space. It means something was tried but it just didn’t work out yet. And it means we can keep trying with an improved or different approach.  The notion of failure is just a result of being unable to meet certain demands we hold true. These demands can be internal and external criteria that affect the projects, such as expectations, goals, deadlines, value, and etc. As a designer and maker, recognizing pressures, assumptions and parameters help inform the way to approach individual projects and journey toward innovation. A piece of failure shouldn’t be thrown away the moment it fails.