Simon Riisnæs Dagfinrud
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Simon Riisnæs Dagfinrud

Designer-developer in Amsterdam, he/him

today marks my first day of freelancing and running @noko. Genuinely just beyond excited. Open for business starting July. Hit me up 🤙🏻

6 days ago

About

Designer, developer.

Working on computational design, generative art, identities, and frontend tech. Interested in language: spoken, written, digital, coded, visual.

Currently freelancing and running noko.

Previously Sr. Creative Developer at WeTransfer's Creative Studio.

Contact

Website
Are.na
Mastodon
Instagram
GitHub
Figma

Teams

Current
noko

Projects

2023

Social media profile for Bygdepride—featuring some simple typography in motion, playing on its mantra that love is love is love is love (is love is love!) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

+4
2023

Ultra lightweight, super simple, featuring a custom interaction experiment and controls.

+3
2022

My new portfolio! Focusing on computational design.

+3
2022

Suite of components and tools to build Wallpapers (interactive ads) for WeTransfer on iOS. Built using web technologies.

+1
2022

The 2022 edition of the Ideas Report, focusing on the sacrifices creatives make to get the dream job.

+3
2022

Super lightweight nuggets of interactive data that are adaptable to all kinds of contexts. With Merknad.

+2
2022

Movement and pride festival. Helping out with a bit of everything. Creating the brand, website, social assets, merch, print, etc. Most fun project ever. #kjærleik 🏳️‍🌈

+5
2022
The Macallan: "In Collaboration With" at WeTransfer

Series of interactive brand stories with The Macallan and collaborators David Carson, Andrew Davidson and Mogwai.

+3
2021

Facilitating the creation of a code of ethics for designers.

+4
2021

Experiments in interactive/generative art.

+3
2021

Development of wallpapers (interactive ads) for clients including Adobe, Apple, Adidas, Netflix, Gucci, Mailchimp, Shutterstock, and more.

+6
2020

Empowering Norwegian media to crack difficult cases using data journalism.

+4
2019

Defining design principles, forming a shared internal language, and building a Vue.js component library for it.

+5

Side Projects

2023

what does an identity consist of? Noko© Digital™ Versatile Design® is a teeny-tiny interactive experiment-and-example of color, motion, pop culture, and branding.

+4
2023

✷ curated graphic feed — using a pen plotter and textile markers to test t-shirt ideas for Forma.

+8
2023

✷ curated graphic feed — an inspiration bot for Mastodon.

+8
2022

A little summary of experiments made in 2022, along with some thoughts.

+9
2022

Generative poster series.

+3
2022

Generative poster series.

+3
2022

Generative posters, every now and then.

+3
2020

A little plugin to (more) easily add page numbers to frames in Figma.

+1

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Amsterdam

Freelancing alongside running noko.

2020 — Now
Amsterdam

Studio focusing on language and culture.

2020 — Now
Amsterdam / Volda
2021 — 2023
Amsterdam

I've taken on a wide range of roles at WeTransfer:

Building immersive mini-sites like Ideas Reports, creating a full development suite for interactive ads on iOS, designing computationally led brand campaigns, or even designing complete products from scratch—all seen by hundreds of millions of users.

2020 — 2021
Oslo / Amsterdam

UserTesting acquired Teston in March 2020.

2016 — 2017
Oslo / Ørsta

(Now Visma Digital Marketing)

2014 — 2016
2012 — 2014
Web designer at Freelance
Ørsta, Norway

Volunteering

2018 — Now
Designer/developer at Bygdepride
Ørsta, Norway

Features

2023

Staff pick 🫶🏻