699 Years of Blue was inspired by The Met’s Ming dynasty Jar with dragon. I was drawn to the idea...699 Years of Blue was inspired by The Met’s Ming dynasty Jar with dragon. I was drawn to the idea...
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699 Years of Blue was inspired by The Met’s Ming dynasty Jar with dragon. I was drawn to the idea that an image created nearly seven centuries ago can still feel alive today. Rather than simply making the vessel look futuristic, I wanted to explore what survives across time: the object itself, its imagery, or the cultural memory attached to it. The transparent form and dissolving cobalt dragon represent that tension between fragility and endurance, suggesting that cultural memory survives not by remaining unchanged, but by being reinterpreted and carried forward.
Jar with dragon, Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and period (1426–35), Object No. 37.191.1.
Ledger — AI CFO Platform
Ledger is an AI platform that acts as an always-on Chief Financial Officer for founders — connecting to accounts, learning cash rhythm, and surfacing risks before they become real problems. I designed the full landing page.
My role: UI/UX Design
Scope: Landing page
Financial tools for founders usually feel either cold (dashboards) or intimidating (accounting software).
For Ledger, we borrowed from old-world institutional finance instead — serif type, oil-painting textures, classical architecture — so an AI CFO feels like real authority, not another app.
Built this over a weekend as an experiment with AI-assisted design and development.
Duo Case is an absurd concept for turning two iPhones into a very unofficial foldable iPhone. The goal was to see how far AI could accelerate the process while keeping creative direction, design decisions and final execution in human hands.
I’ve been razzmatazzing and flibbertigibbeting with Claude Code and somehow ended up with a new yels.dev.
It finally feels like me: simple on the surface, slightly complicated underneath, and very much alive.
You can see who I am, what I do, the work behind Herodot, RaptorLabs, CyberLink Security and Solmint, plus a selection of projects I’ve built across AI, cybersecurity, Web3, product systems, education, archives, and experimental digital spaces.
The simple-on-the-surface, layered-underneath idea comes through so clearly in the presentation. I especially like how the project archive turns the site into something to explore rather than just a résumé of links.