Custom Hoodies is a Desktop to Garment web portal where images are applied to hoodies and printed. The logo is a stylization of a tied string on a hoodie done as a stencil-graffiti friendly Little Red Riding Hood superhero symbol, if she was one today, flying around looking for a big, bad wolf. It is attempting to emit a rebellious vibe and an upbeat energy of the street fashion brand, acting as a sub-brand on top of which the users of the web portal can build their own story.
In design practice for 20+yrs as a cross-disciplinary multi-specialist. Experiencing diverse projects caused a spill-over of skills and thinking methods, gave a wider perspective and resulted with a holistic approach. With that base, developed Zero Design philosophy. Interested in visual storytelling or Narrative Design in all its forms, into cutting-edge technologies from a perspective of using them as a tool in addressing deeper emotional needs of advanced users, marrying them to softer, more profound values. Focused on issues of branding, micro-branding, self-branding, etc. in contemporary and future societies. Since 2007, concurrently with design practice, teaching design in academia.
UMA Network Ltd is a venture capital company from Hong Kong with a focus on creative industries. It fuses capital, creation and partnership to pave the way for creator economy to flourish on international scale. Standard practices are not the standard — it is a collective of entrepreneurs, designers, artists, musicians, filmmakers, inventors, all lateral thinkers, united in building creative product-service (eco)systems.