Karan Rawat is an acclaimed award-winning advertising and design head from India and the man behind one of the country’s leading agencies called AutumnWinter Communications and Design, firm is known for its work with fashion brands.
His career began as a visualiser at McCann Erickson, after graduating from the Sir JJ School of Applied Arts. He then moved onto JWT to take on the role of Senior Art Director, followed by the Creative Director position at Enterprise Nexus for the next 8 years. Having established his name in the industry, Karan pursued other interests and became as Assistant Film Director to cult filmmaker, Ram Gopal Verma for almost 1.5 years after studying Film making from New York Film Academy (6 months course from NYFA). But when Grey Worldwide came calling, he couldn’t say no and returned as the Vice-President and Executive Creative Director for the renowned agency. After a successful stint, he moved onto becoming the President & Executive Creative Director at Umbrella Design, which was to be the final stepping stone to establishing his very own agency. For over 12years, across his career, Karan has worked on the famous Indian denim brand, Killer Jeans. He is credited with building the brand from ground up and still handles the account today. He is in the industry for almost 23 years now.
Some of the other popular brands he has worked on include:
Audi, Kinder Joy, Coke, Fanta, Smirnoff, Nutella, Ferrero Rocher, Honda Brio, Lucky Strike, JW Marriott Group, Fuji, Times of India, Femina, Filmfare Awards, Reliance Communications, Lawman Pg3 Jeans, Integriti Clothing, Easies Clothing, Peppermint Kids, Ruff Kids, Reliance Jio, Close-up Toothpaste, ICICI Credit cards, Parle wafers, Parle-G Biscuits, Bharti Axa, Bajaj Alliance, Marico Group, Raymonds Suiting’s and more.
Karan combined his passions and set up AutumnWinter Communications & Design as well as a side-project production house called SpringSummer Films, through which he works on directing ad films and branded content.
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