I make liquid interfaces that move like ink in water.

Hiroto — a creative technologist working at the seam between code, color, and feeling. Tokyo · GMT+9.

N 35.67° / E 139.65° ·
v0.1 · in flow

01 dissolve Every project starts by letting the brief soften — by listening for the shape under the ask.

02 colour Color is the first language. Long before type or layout, I ask what this should feel like.

03 form Then bodies emerge from the cloud. Components. Cadence. The bones of an interface.

04 flow And finally — motion. Because a screen that doesn't breathe is a screen that doesn't speak.

a film about
how I work

/ 01

Recent work

A small, careful selection. Each one taught me something I'm still using.

brand · 2025

Northwind Studio

Identity and site for a Hokkaido design studio. Cold colors, warm typography.

case study →
webgl · 2025

Mariko x Bloom

A floral generative system that runs in the browser. 60fps on a phone.

case study →
product · 2024

Graphite OS

Marketing site for a tools-for-thought app. Built around one long scroll story.

case study →
art direction · 2024

Solaria Editions

A typographic poster series printed in copper foil. Sold out in 9 days.

case study →

/ 02 — process

Slow code, fast feeling.

I take fewer projects than I could, because the work I want to be known for is the work that breathes — that doesn't try to be loud, that arrives rather than demands.

0projects shipped
0awards on the shelf
0years in the craft
0% caffeine fueled
/ 03

An object I keep on my desk

Drag it. It's a little reminder that the best ideas don't sit still.

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— a thought, repeating

/ 04 — let's make something

have a project worth slowing down for?

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