About me#

Born in 1982, raised in the backwaters of Switzerland. Got into computers early and with quite a force, much to the detriment of those who’d have preferred I learn my latin vocabulary while attending Gymnasium. Dropped out of that pre-university track eventually and started an apprenticeship that barely kept me interested either. School and I just never got along.

The mere fact that I start this introduction with childhood authority trauma should not distract from the fact that things turned out well, either way. ;) I had a mind of my own and accepting authority, well, let’s say that was a bit of a blind spot. Respect, yes, “system” given authority on the other hand, oh I just didn’t understand why I should.

Escape hatch#

Taught myself typography, graphic design and web development by devouring every book I could find and practicing tirelessly, got my first gigs at small web agencies, and pretty quickly figured out that working for myself was the way to go. I’ve been independent or freelancing for most of my career. My job is basically what I did since I was twelve: playing around with tech and being creative. I can’t imagine it any other way.

I should give a shout-out to the Demoscene here, which was a huge influence on everything that followed. And a veritable petridish for creativity and technology interests. It’s where my hunger for visual design and technology started, where I spent most of my creativity between fifteen and twenty years old. It’s where I learned to work in international teams with designers, coders and musicians, and how to bridge those gaps that sometimes arise between them, not even talking about characters and personalities. Until it kinda fizzled out. But such is life. Fond memories, many of them.

The current#

Married to a lovely woman, working in a cooperative, more time than at any point before in my life to pursue other things, all in all probably the most happy and relaxed in my life so far. Things are good. Things are - dare I say - great.

About the content on this site#

This site has been around in one form or another since 2000. There have been many iterations and many different approaches used. Unfortunately, most of the historic content was lost to the abyss of the internet with each rebuild, but I recently managed to get at least text content back from the Wayback Machine with some success.

Frankly, I don’t care whether my opinions are wanted, boring, or controversial. I don’t write for an audience. But if the rare thing happens that someone pops by who identifies with a thought I wrote down, well, I guess that’s great then. If you don’t, no problem. It’s just, like, my opinion, man.

The subtle, more realistic reason I’m doing this is purely technical interest, trying out stuff and for the joy of designing not for clients, as so many of us web people do.