A bit about mE.

After studying mechanical engineering in college and working briefly in product design, I followed my heart to video production and motion graphics. For the past four years, I’ve been working for an engineering software company, where I design motion graphics and produce, direct, film, and edit live action videos about technology. In my free time, I make 2D and 3D graphics for educators at universities and nonprofits, and I’m constantly learning new tools – from pen and ink drawing to Blender for 3D animation and Three.js for interactive games.

My most recent projects include an interactive language learning lesson, an animation to explain passive solar heating, a web tool to help people learn basic photography terms, and a short film for a nonprofit in Greece.

If you like to learn, we’ll get along. In my free time, I’m taking classes about game design or in a coffee shop, drawing or writing in the margin of a book. I currently live in Munich.

These are some of things that guide and inspire me.

Education & Learning
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning by Richard Mayer
Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen
How We Learn by Stanislaus Dehaene
Learning by Heart by Tony Wagner
UX Design for Effective Instruction online course by Carnegie Mellon
Evidence-Based Backward Design online course by Carnegie Mellon

Writing
Write Like You Talk by Paul Gram

Mental Health
Lost Connections by Johann Hari

Filmmaking, Animation & Design
On Directing Film by David Mamet
Introduction to Motion Graphics and Story Visualization online course by Harvard Extension School (my final project)

Urban Planning & Design
Designing Disorder by Richard Sennett
The Uses of Disorder by Richard Sennett
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
Happy City by Charles Montgomery
Restorative Cities: Urban Design for Mental Health and Wellbeing by Jenny Roe and Layla McCay
Soft City by David Sim
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by William H. Whyte

History & Economics
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Pikkety