İstanbul based Production Designer/ Art Director graduated from New York University, NYU TISCH School of the Arts with an MFA degree in Production Design and Scenic Design. Her background in MFA, Lighting Design from Parsons the New School for Design and BFA in Interior Architecture from Bilkent University helped her uniting skills with her passion. 

Sıla Karakaya, fell in love with theater on May 12, 2001 at 20:00; and she still tries to recall that unique moment on stage by creating worlds for theater, commercial and film characters.

Designer founded +b612 Design Studio in 2014 to spark the collaborative creativity in her team. Since 2013, she is teaching at İstanbul Bilgi University, developing her own academic method on Production Design for Stage and Screen, in Faculty of Communication and Fashion Design Department.  

She is after wit in life.