About me

I always knew a presence online mattered. Especially on social media. So I always had a profile.

Those profiles were targeted. LinkedIn is for my professional product design work. Instagram is for my Latin dance photography. They work because they are restricted. I could not post everything else I do there, and I did not want to. I want those audiences tied to that specific thing. LinkedIn is how I promote my work and connect with related people and potential clients. Instagram is for the photography. Mixing hobbies and unrelated design stuff into those feeds would mess that up.

The problem is I am a creative person with ADHD. I cannot stop experimenting with multiple things. I try a lot. And I never had a place to share the rest.

So I wanted a personal space that is not targeted to one craft. It is targeted to myself, as a person and as a whole. A place where I can post whatever I am working on, or whatever I want to share, without a filter.

This site came together with inspiration from Show Your Work!, the second book in Austin Kleon’s trilogy.

Who I am

I am a product designer. I started as a photographer, then explored graphic design. Now I work as a freelance digital product designer. In my free time I experiment with physical product design. I design my own lamps and home decoration, and a lot of other design-related things.

I also read a lot of books, mostly around design and business.

A living timeline

I wanted this website to feel like a living timeline, because that is basically what it is. A living timeline of myself and my growth.

I post what I am working on now, and I keep a record of what happened before. As I grow, I change the things I work on. I change interests. I change hobbies. I change the way I view things. I want all of that displayed here.

The roots

Under everything are four roots. Those are the main things I put my time and effort on.

Design. My passion for about the past ten years. I started as a graphic designer and transitioned into product design.

Photography. Where I started. My first real job. A hobby I turned into work. I still do it, mostly as a side job now.

Business. I have tried to have my own business for as long as I can remember. As a kid I made things and tried to sell them. Small decorations, that kind of thing. Even in World of Warcraft at fifteen I was running a shop selling in-game items.

Books. I started reading about ten years ago with Shoe Dog, the biography of Phil Knight. Before that I thought books were boring. I could not finish them. That book got me excited. One book led to another. I have read around a hundred since then, mostly business, design, and self-improvement.

Who this is for

This is probably for people who know me, or want to know me better. People who know me as a photographer often do not know the design work, and the other way around. Almost nobody sees the book habit, or the hobby design that is not client work.

Here they can see me as a whole.