hello,

my name is aparna nair, and i am a Mechanical Engineer at the ARM Institute, where i design, program, and simulate solutions for industrial robot applications. i studied Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (2023), where my focus was product design and rapid prototyping. i like to make beautiful things, and i strive to make beautiful things that work well for as long as possible.

my interest in art started maybe 15 years ago, when i started drawing comics. in high school, i did freelance illustrative branding (Apu @ Trivandrum) for various small businesses (tourism, restaurants, events), as well as my own fundraiser for the Kerala Floods of 2018, during which I raised $2000 for the relief fund. since then, i’ve learned a lot more about myself, creating, and the world, which led me to product design. i hope to design sustainable consumer products contextualized for the tropics at some point in my career.

i’m currently based in pittsburgh, PA, and you can get in touch via my contact tab.