Until 2010
School
Where it all started
Three schools, one after the other.

I’m Karan Pawar, an Ahmedabad-based creative professional working across advertising, design and filmmaking.
My work lives somewhere between thinking up an idea and figuring out how to make it real. As an Associate Creative Director, I work across concepts, campaigns, visual direction and content — bringing together words, images, design and moving frames to tell stories that connect with people.
Over the years, I’ve moved between different parts of the creative process: developing ideas, writing scripts, building visual worlds, planning shoots, working behind the camera and shaping the final edit. I enjoy making all these pieces come together as one coherent thought.
Outside my agency work, I make films of my own. I’m drawn to places, their histories, the people who shape them and the little details that are easy to miss when you’re just passing through. Through travel films, photography and short-form content, I experiment with a more personal kind of storytelling — one that isn’t always dictated by a brief.
Advertising has taught me how to communicate an idea. Making things independently has taught me how to follow one.
Both continue to shape the way I see, think and create.
I like ideas with a point of view, visuals with a purpose and stories that stay with you a little longer.
Work with meSchools, film sets, agencies and two moves to Bombay. Scroll down and follow the trail.
Until 2010
Where it all started
Three schools, one after the other.
2010 — 2014· Baroda
Bachelor of Visual Arts
Four years at the Faculty of Fine Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
2014 — 2015
Designer
My first job, at my father’s packaging design studio.
2015 — 2016
Social work, theatre and film
Worked with Budhan Theatre, an NGO that does social work through theatre, while learning filmmaking from my mentor, the documentary filmmaker Dakxin Chhara, at his production house Nomad Movies.
2016 — 2019
Assistant director
My first feature was the Hindi film Sameer, in 2016. Then came three years of back-to-back films, with a few ads along the way.
2019 — 2020· Mumbai
Independent cinematographer & editor
Behind the camera on corporate videos and ad films, and on the edit for some of them too.
2020 — 2022· Ahmedabad
Advertising agency
Covid brought me back to Ahmedabad, and into agency life.
2022 — 2023· Mumbai
Visualizer
Back to Bombay, as a visualizer on two big client clusters.
2023 — now· Ahmedabad
Associate Creative Director
Home again in Ahmedabad, working on concepts, campaigns, content and films.
All along
Travel films of my own
Running alongside everything above: films and photographs of places, their histories and the people in them.
Photoshop / Illustrator / After Effects / Premiere Pro / Lightroom / DaVinci Resolve
Ambi Pur / Flamingo Travels / Rasna / Oral-B / Nour Diamonds / Fully Faltoo / KaanPhod / Tirupati Oil / Colors Gujarati / Swati Procon / Bakeri / UID / Sangini / Karnavati University / Shilp Group / Sunpride / Sheladia / TrustAid / The Leela / PIV / Wild Watchers / Devasya Hospital / Satvaras Juice / Street Dancer 3D / Map Oil / Livspace / T-Series / Laxmi Dal / TGB / Pramukh / Comedy Central / P&G Shiksha / Intro

I’m usually behind the camera, so sitting in front of one was a cool change. We talked about how design in advertising has moved from print to the feed.