I’m realizing more and more how alien LinkedIn feels to me.

Not just uninteresting. Not just inconvenient. Alien in its very structure. It is a space of corporate busyness, robotic politeness, and constant self-packaging. There, a person seems to turn themselves in advance into a job description, a career signal, a neat professional silhouette.

And at some point I realized: I don’t want to be there even formally.

A good professional is not made of competencies alone. They are made of taste, character, attentiveness, experience, strangeness, pain, curiosity, mistakes, pauses, inner fire.

And LinkedIn seems to say:

“No, no. Leave only the title, the case study, the achievement, the team thank-you, and five bullet points about leadership.”

Not a person. A profile.

P.S. Symbolic how it turned out: May 1.

I wanted to make the packaging of an ordinary matchbox more noticeable and interesting. The visual idea is based on a match tied into a knot. I was interested in the paradox: a simple and familiar object begins to be perceived differently when its form becomes impossible.

Logo for an Obsidian plugin that processes and uploads images to my website. “Iskra” refers to the moment of a brief spark: a rapid transition from a local file to a processed and published result.

A typical battery collection container almost always looks like a technical necessity. It communicates its function, but it doesn’t attract attention. It can be placed in a store, accompanied by instructions and an environmental message, but the interaction itself still feels dull and impersonal. I wanted to turn an unnoticed, obligatory object into something people would want to approach.