People Who Inspire Me

• Alex Tomlinson 🐦
Alex is an incredible artist and friend. The font on this site—Nay Aug—was designed by him. You can usually find him drawing birds, designing typefaces, or working on pigeon post.
• Kasra 📝
Kasra writes on Substack a lot. He has an incredible ability to speak to the heart in a way I've only seen in Anton Chekhov's writing.
• Santi Grau 🇪🇸
Santi is...Santi? There's really no other way to describe him. I first met him while I worked at Tesla. He works on interactive art installations but saying just that would do a disservice to the culmination of his work. He is an artist in every sense of the word.
• Alanna Tran 🎨
Alanna is an incredibly talented designer I met through playing minecraft with my friends Angelo and Raven. You should check out her comics. She has an ability to pack an incredible amount of emotion and detail into her artwork that I don't think I've ever seen anyone come close to.
• Raven Mo 📮
I once had someone I just met mention Raven as "Famous Type Designer Raven Mo." Raven is one of the most talented designers I've ever met. She works on type design, iconography, UI design, and anything you could think on. Pure. Distilled. Creativity. If you like typography, check her work out.
• Angelo 🇵🇷
Angelo constantly uplifts and tries to help everyone around him. When I say that, an idea in your head might pop up, but I can assure you it's a disservice to the amount he cares. Very rarely in life will you meet someone like Angelo, and that's very unfortunate. He's a software engineer at Railway, and a cracked one at that.
• Chris Wang ™
Designed by Chris Wang ™. Chris Wang Design ™.
Very rarely do you see people so versed in classical design tools. I genuinely think if there were a world where Figma and the entire Adobe suite didn't exist, you could give Chris a single 2b pencil without an eraser, and he'd be just fine. His photography is incredible, check it out.
• Eva Zhang 🧮
If you're interested in the application of intelligence, AI as a tool to solve world problems, AI agents, crypto, or matcha, Eva is the person to talk to. She is unwaveringly herself, something most people aren't. More people should be like Eva.
• Amir Bolous 👨‍💻
Amir started Rabbitholeathon, which is where both him and I first truly hung out 1 on 1. He's constantly building things, constantly learning, and I think what I appreciate the most about him is that he cares, a lot.
• Yev 🤓
Yev is crazy, and I love him dearly. He's currently working on LSD (not the drug!!!) If you're interested in a company that can turn any URL into a SQL-compatible API check his work out.

I also have a ton of people who've inspired me who don't have websites (or any online presence!!!) Here are a few of those individuals:

• Pranav, Noah, Alec, Jake, дана, Rahul, Aidan, Andrew, Arman, John, Felix, Mark, Gabe, Miguel, Leon, Justina, Ryan, Parneeth, Nico, JZ, Paws, Long, Liam, James, Jordan, Josh, Linden, Brian, Adam, Brian, Patrick, Xander, Aidan, Ashley, Ben, Erdem, Mitchell, Olivia, Molly, Ray, Aislyn, Cody, Sooj, Vince, Adam, Dave, Remy, Kohei, Sofi, Daniel, Aidan, Alex, Jenifer, Kevin, Arman, Ashely, Brad, Christine, Skyler, Michael, Alex, Yi, Izaan, Spruce, Evelyn, Christina, Adwait, Mathew, Julie, and many more that I need to add...

Lastly, this entire site is inspired by my friend Cody. His love for websites along with creating the most memory efficient programs have forever changed how I think about my art. I will forever cherish our walks around the design center.