Behind the Curiosity.

I loved silhouettes before I knew what design even meant. I filled the margins of my school books with drawings instead of notes—a habit no teacher ever fully appreciated.

I remember staring at TIME magazine covers—the red frame, the typography, the composition—with zero idea why I couldn’t look away. I just knew I couldn’t. I loved movie posters too. Not for the films, half of which I never saw. For the design.

I used to borrow English comic books from the library and understand maybe three words per page. It didn’t matter. The drawings, layout and storytelling were already speaking a language I understood, long before English was one of them.

One of my paintings was selected at borough level in school. A small thing, technically, but it was the first time I realised other people could see what I was making—not just me.

During military service, I became friends with someone studying at an art university. That friendship quietly rerouted my entire life. He persuaded me to sit the entrance exam for Graphic Design. I got in. Everything since has followed from that one conversation.

University gave me a bachelor’s degree, then a master’s in Graphic Design. Before I had even graduated, I started my own design company. It worked. That was the moment a hobby quietly became a career without asking permission.

Somewhere along the way, I also fell for drawing, sculpting and visual storytelling. It turns out one obsession invites others.

Today my work moves between design, sculpture, photography, music and emerging technology. Each medium lets me approach an idea differently: photography observes, painting involves the body, design brings image and information together, spatial work invites people inside, and music gives language to what an image cannot fully explain.

I’m still curious, still asking the same kind of “why” I asked as a child in front of a magazine rack. The medium changes. The curiosity behind it doesn’t.

Design simply turned out to be the most patient way to keep asking—and every new discipline offers another way to look for an answer.