Signal Bloom
WebGL
(01) — Portfolio ’26
Independent designer & creative developer crafting brands, products and web experiences that move people.
Currently crafting
Lisbon
(02) — Manifesto
A decade of making things that people remember — and a stubborn belief that craft is a strategy.
(04) — Selected Work
Selected Work
Brand
Halcyon
2026
Identity · Website · Motion System
Product
Nocturne
2025
Product Strategy · UX/UI · Design System
Brand
Obsidian
2025
Naming · Identity · Packaging
Web
Parallel
2024
WebGL · Interaction Design · Front‑end
Web
Monolith
2024
E‑commerce · 3D · Art Direction
Motion
Fieldnote
2023
Identity · Editorial · Motion
(05) — Capabilities
What I bring to the table
Four disciplines, one studio of one. I work end‑to‑end or plug into your team — whichever gets the best work out the door.
Idris Vale — Lisbon, 2026
(06) — About
Ten years of turning ambitious ideas into work people remember.
I started as a graphic designer who couldn’t stop opening the browser inspector. Today I sit exactly where brand, product and code overlap — and I’ve learned that the best work happens in that overlap, not on either side of it.
I partner with founders, studios and in‑house teams who care about details most people never notice — until they’re missing.
Years of practice
Figma
Framer
Blender
Cinema 4D
After Effects
Three.js
GLSL
React
Experience
2024 — Now
Independent Practice
Lisbon, Remote
2021 — 2024
Design Lead
Lumen Studio
2019 — 2021
Senior Product Designer
Kinetic Bureau
2017 — 2019
Interaction Designer
Studio Mora
Recognition
Pixel Honours
×6
Web Craft Awards
×1
The Motion Circle
×3
Letterform Guild
×2
(07) — Lab
The Lab
Orbit Study
Motion
Afterglow
Shader
Soft Machines
3D
Night Current
Generative
Tension
Interaction
(08) — Testimonials
Kind words
Idris didn’t just design our brand — they gave us a way of speaking we didn’t know we had. Six months later, it still feels like the future.
Maren Solberg
Founder, Halcyon Audio
The rare designer who can hold strategy, craft and code in the same hand. We shipped faster than planned and it looked better than we imagined.
Theo Albrecht
VP Product, Nocturne Health
Our website finally feels like walking into one of our buildings. Clients mention it before they mention our work.
Lina Okafor
Partner, Parallel Architects
(09) — Journal
Journal
Motion
Motion Is a Language, Not a Garnish
If an animation can be removed without losing meaning, it probably should be. A framework for motion with intent.
Process
What I Learned Designing in the Dark
Dark interfaces aren’t inverted light ones. Notes on contrast, depth and colour after two years of designing for the night.
Type
Typography Does the Heavy Lifting
Before colour, before imagery, before motion — there is type. Why I design every project in greyscale first.