Karan Saini · Product, packaging and print designer · Toronto
Design for screens,
and for print.
Industry recognition:
























Product, packaging
and brand.
7 FSEA Gold Leaf Awards: foil, die cuts and variable data
An AI team for a shop of one
Packaging and print products, from dieline to press
Booth, nominee kit and a new brand
punch.ninja: link pages sold with our NFC products
bigDAWGS website redesign and design system
NFC tap to give plaque
Three online stores
Brand and campaign work
bigDAWGS brand revamp
Digital platforms.
Physical ecosystems.
Product and UX,
with AI
Research, user flows and high fidelity prototypes in Figma. I took punch.ninja to a live product with 10+ clients in its first month, and I design AI systems like products, for a client and in my own work.
Packaging and
structure
Boxes and print products taken from brief to production: the structures, the dielines and the files. A video card cover that wraps the whole screen module, and a box line for a client that runs on one die.
Print and
embellishment
Foil, raised varnish, soft touch and die cuts, planned with the press operator. I designed embellished print and packaging for the NFL, Netflix, Deloitte and USA TODAY. Work I designed, directed or mentored won 7 awards at the 2026 FSEA Gold Leaf Awards (2 Gold, 2 Silver, 3 Bronze).
Brand and
systems
A brand book of colour, type and spacing rules a team can follow, and Figma libraries built on tokens. I directed the bigDAWGS brand revamp, and its rules became the tokens of the website redesign.
Digital platforms.
Physical ecosystems.
Product and UX,
with AI
Research, user flows and high fidelity prototypes in Figma. I took punch.ninja to a live product with 10+ clients in its first month, and I design AI systems like products, for a client and in my own work.
Packaging and
structure
Boxes and print products taken from brief to production: the structures, the dielines and the files. A video card cover that wraps the whole screen module, and a box line for a client that runs on one die.
Print and
embellishment
Foil, raised varnish, soft touch and die cuts, planned with the press operator. I designed embellished print and packaging for the NFL, Netflix, Deloitte and USA TODAY. Work I designed, directed or mentored won 7 awards at the 2026 FSEA Gold Leaf Awards (2 Gold, 2 Silver, 3 Bronze).
Brand and
systems
A brand book of colour, type and spacing rules a team can follow, and Figma libraries built on tokens. I directed the bigDAWGS brand revamp, and its rules became the tokens of the website redesign.
Award winning
execution.
Work I designed or directed won 7 awards at the 2026 Foil & Specialty Effects Association (FSEA) Gold Leaf Awards (2 Gold, 2 Silver, 3 Bronze), for die cutting, foil and print with technology built into it. One of them is an intern’s piece I mentored.




