About
It started with a news story about Hollywood actors being photoshopped to look better. I was intrigued enough to go find Photoshop CS4. A cracked unlicensed copy, obviously.
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I never really stopped.
We didn’t have internet at home, so I paid by the hour at an internet café to download fonts, brushes, and stock images, then went home and used them until I could afford to go back. Most of what I made was Counter-Strike forum signatures. A few of them were genuinely good.
These days I’m the only designer across two products, which means I own the whole thing: strategy, research, interface, and the design system underneath it. I like it that way.
I sit between design and engineering. I prototype in code, sweat pixel-level detail, and care more about whether something works in someone’s hands than how it looks in a presentation. Lately that’s meant taking a product from a one-line idea to a near-finished thing on my own.
Same obsession as the café days. Better tools.
Now
- Reading, The Design of Everyday Things
- Listening, Floating Points, Cascade
- Learning, Metal shaders
Outside design
- Photography, Street and everyday, on a small fixed-lens camera
- Reading, Design history, biographies, the odd novel
- Music, Electronic and jazz, found on too many apps
- Based in, Botoșani, Romania
