What Surrounds Me
Design and art are not just about creating visuals that look good, but about how something can speak without having to explain itself. From an early point, I realized that visual language has the power to shape how I see the world, respond emotionally, and understand stories behind form and structure. From posters and album covers to simple digital interfaces, each leaves a lasting impression on how I think and feel.
I grew up believing that design is a language of its own. It doesn’t always need to be clean, symmetrical, or perfectly resolved. Often, character emerges from imperfection from the willingness to step outside safe patterns, experiment freely, fail, and reshape meaning through process.
Music has played a significant role in shaping how I grow within the visual world. As a long-time listener of rock music, I’m drawn to its raw energy, honesty, and attitude qualities that often find their way into my visual decisions. Rhythm, contrast, tension, and release are not only musical elements, but visual ones as well, influencing how I approach composition and typography.
In my life, design has become a medium to express things that are difficult to articulate with words. Emotion, tension, freedom, and contradiction can all exist within typography, color, composition, and visual rhythm. I believe that honest design is felt before it is fully understood.
As a designer, I don’t confine myself to a single style or approach. I see flexibility not as a lack of identity, but as the ability to adapt with intention. Each project, context, and audience requires a different visual voice, and I enjoy the process of listening, translating, and shaping that voice into something relevant and precise.
Working across different areas of design has taught me that aesthetics and function don’t have to compete. The strongest work lives where both support each other. Good design is not only visually engaging, but purposeful built to work, communicate, and leave a meaningful impact beyond surface-level appeal.
Ultimately, design is an ongoing journey evolving alongside who I am. Tastes change, styles shift, but the core remains the same: a commitment to creating work that feels honest, considered, and meaningful. Design is not just what I do it’s part of how I experience the world.