ArinVale

Designer/ Creative developer/ Digital maker
Arin Vale, designer and creative developer, in a concrete studio space
Based between
ideas + technology
Selected work
2023 — 2026

I design what comes next.

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I turncomplex ideasinto simpleexperiences.

I work at the seam between design and code — shaping interfaces that carry weight, systems that survive contact with reality, and interactions that feel like they were always there.

Independent since 2023

Selectedwork

2023 — 2026

Four projects, told as chapters rather than thumbnails.

  • Nova
  • Forma
  • Luma
  • Motion
Project 01 — Fintech / Data

Nova

Year

2025

Role

Design + front-end

Category

Fintech / Data

Scope

Product, system, build

Nova product interface across desktop and mobile
01 Context01 / 05

01 Context

Numbers nobody reads

Nova arrived with eleven dashboards and one problem: people opened them, squinted, and left. The data was rich; the reading of it was not.

02 Problem

Depth without noise

Analysts needed density. Everyone else needed a story. One interface had to carry both without becoming a compromise.

03 Direction

Data as editorial

We treated each screen like a spread: a headline number, a supporting line, then the detail — paced instead of dumped.

04 System

Sixteen components

A typographic scale for figures, three chart primitives, and motion rules that make comparison feel physical rather than decorative.

05 Result

Fewer clicks, longer sessions

Time-to-first-insight dropped by 41%. Weekly return visits doubled in the first quarter after launch.

Project 02 — Digital commerce / Spatial experience

Forma

Warm minimal interiors showroom with sculptural armchair
Product detail study for Forma

01 Environment

Start in the room

Instead of a catalogue, Forma opens inside a space — light, material, proportion — and lets the products emerge from it.

02 Product

Objects with weight

Each piece is photographed in situ and scaled truthfully, so a chair reads as a chair, not a thumbnail.

03 Interface

Quiet controls

Commerce lives at the edges: a hairline price, a persistent bag, no banners competing with the room.

04 Interaction

Move to understand

Drag to re-light the scene, scroll to move through rooms. Every gesture teaches something about the object.

Project 03 — Cultural / Digital
LUMA
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Experimental typographic poster from the Luma identity system

An interactive identity system for a cultural platform.

01 Idea

A logo that behaves

Luma's mark is a set of rules, not a file: letterforms stretch with the programme they announce.

02 System

Type as architecture

One serif, five widths, two rhythms. Posters, screens and signage all inherit the same grid.

03 Motion

Slow, deliberate, loud

Titles arrive by mask instead of fade — the identity reads as a curtain rising, never as a transition effect.

How Iwork

Five moves, in order
01 / 05Understand

01

Understand

Read the business, the constraint and the person who has to live with the result.

02

Define

Write the problem in one sentence. If it takes two, it isn't defined yet.

03

Explore

Draw badly and quickly. Volume beats precision at this stage.

04

Build

Design in the browser — motion, weight and edge cases are not decisions for later.

05

Refine

Remove. Then remove again. What remains should feel inevitable.

A few thingsI’ve built

Practice
Creative director at Atelier DigitalProduct designer at Nova LabsDesigner at Form Studio

Atelier Digital

2026Atelier Digital

Creative director

Leading a six-person practice across identity, product and interaction.

2024Nova Labs

Product designer

Owned the data experience end to end, from type scale to shipped front-end.

2022Form Studio

Designer

Brand systems for cultural clients, plus my first proper motion work.

What peoplesay

01 / 03
Mirei OstrandTeodor VanceHalle Roque
“Arin has the rare habit of asking the question everyone avoided in the kickoff, then answering it with something you can click.”
Mirei OstrandVP ProductNova Labs

Playground

Experiments / ideas / things I built for fun
ELASTIC
01 / 06Interactive typography

Letterforms that lean toward the pointer.

01 / 06

Outsidethe screen

Notes from a life away from the cursor
Empty city street at sunrise
Books, film camera and coffee on linen

Follows you around

Arin sketching by a window
Currently ReadingThe Timeless Way of Building
Currently ExploringRiso printing + generative type
Currently ListeningAmbient piano, mostly at 5am
Currently BuildingA tiny tool for archiving sketches
Open for select projects — 2026

Let's makesomethingworthtalking about.

Good designshould makepeople feelsomething.

Arin ValeDesigner / Creative developer
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