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AI Didn’t Design This Project. It Helped Me Explore It.

AI Workflows
Triptych of back views wearing DIIV band tees: left with red-blue band members, center glowing red square with silhouetted figures, right guitarist in blue hues.

How AI Has Become Part of My Design Process

AI Workflows Signal
Bold black poster explaining how AI becomes part of my design process: large spaced title, small descriptive text, and geometric circle and square motifs with a logo bottom-left.

Why Every Designer Should Leave the Computer

Signal
A painter on a ladder adds final touches to a large mural of a dark-clothed figure on a bright yellow wall.

Unexpected Public Art.

Creative Minimal
Weathered turquoise geometric metal shelter with a bench inside, set in a grassy park.

Skateboards Before Strategy

Brand Strategy Creative

From Portfolio to Public Art

Brand Strategy Creative
Vibrant mural: black-and-white portrait of a woman in a hat on a yellow wall, with a blue panel to the right.

AI Doesn’t Make You More Creative. It Makes You More Efficient.

AI Workflows Creative
Large bright blue letter A over a grayscale palm tree background, likely a branding hero image, conveying a bold, tropical-themed brand mark.

Born from Skate Culture

Brand Strategy
Skateboarder mid-air performing a trick with a green deck against a clear blue sky.”,

Why Better Portfolios Often Show Less

Signal
Triptych of three square images: a black square with the 'ab+a' logo in white and teal; a vintage illustration of a person wearing a hat; a pop-art portrait of a pale-faced person with a chain against a green background.

Branding Is Becoming Infrastructure

Creative
Modern concrete building with bold cut-out letters on the corner; a man stands on a walkway near a plaque reading 'DESIGNED BY: KIRILL'

When Information Becomes Identity

Creative
Framed yellow poster on a gray wall listing designated landmarks and districts in Coral Gables, with dense text in black.

I Didn’t Build a GPT to Generate Ideas. I Built One to Kill Bad Ones.

AI Workflows
Close-up of a blue eye on the right with the slogan 'Shape the Signal.' in bold white letters on the left.