// About me
Designer, engineer, founder. Based in Cagliari.
I design product experiences, build the technology inside them, and start the companies around them.
- TLM-01
- 17yrs
- IN SYNCHRONOUS ORBIT AS A GENERALIST
- TLM-02
- 7
- VENTURES
// Minneapolis → London
From the print shop to product design.
1998–2009
Minneapolis
Learning by making
- 2003–07
Graphic Design & Visual Communications, A.A.S.
Minneapolis College
Posters and print
Gig poster designer, silkscreen T-shirt printer, commercial printer
Olson, then my own agency
Short stint at world-famous Olson Agency, launched my own agency and failed quickly
Also: residential builder, pizza chef, public payphone technician, mortgage underwriter, skyscraper roof maintenance
2009–2020
London
Design and innovation
- 2009–13
MEng Design & Innovation
Queen Mary / Goldsmiths, University of London
- 2009
ARTCRANK Europe
Brought ARTCRANK to Europe and ran it for 12 years (London, Bristol, Manchester, Oxford, Paris + others)
- 2013–20
Cinter, co-founder
Design + engineering studio, founded after my studies. Launched 4 products in 4 years, bootstrapped by our agency model. 100+ projects with startups and enterprise (Intel, Infosys, Tata Consulting Group, Airbus).
Trained in graphic design (Minneapolis) and design & innovation (London), developing deep experience across the arts and tech with 3D printing, electronics prototyping, full in-house branding.
// Cagliari · 2020–now
The day jobs, and the community I’m building on the side.
Business Development Manager
2018–2019
Total Patient Management platform, developed by the Inpeco R&D lab in Pula.
inpeco.com
Director Technology Innovation
2018–today (founded 2012)
Helping founders and operators to build businesses their customers will love.
businessdesigntools.com
Founder
2022–today
Brand and comms studio for VC and PE firms.
swanmakers.com
Non-profit founder community. 200+ members.
entrepreneursmeet.it
A map of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Sardinia.
ecosystemsardinia.com
Earn globally, build in Sardinia.
buildinparadise.com
In Sardinia: business development at Inpeco, then Swanmakers. Entrepreneurs Meet began as a side project and spun out Ecosystem Sardinia and Build in Paradise.
// Deep dive 01 · Members' area
A members' area that keeps a community connected between events.
Entrepreneurs Meet is a non-profit that gets interesting people in a room together. The members' area is what keeps them connected afterwards.
- My role
- Brand, co-organizer, product design, build
- Team
- Luigi Laezza, Matteo Cantarelli, Chris Verbick
- TLM-01
- 200+
- MEMBERS
- TLM-02
- 20+
- NATIONALITIES
- TLM-03
- 45+
- EVENTS
Entrepreneurs Meet: a non-profit founder community in Cagliari. I designed and co-developed its members' area.
// One system, two registers
Same page, two moods: Fun for members, Pro for partners.
The Entrepreneurs Meet design system ships two token registers, so one set of templates speaks to members and to institutions.
// Members' area
A home dashboard, a searchable directory and a product tour.
The live members' area: home dashboard, directory with full-text search and product tour. Other members' details are blurred.
// Networking Mode · Monthly Mixer
In the room, the app switches to Networking Mode.
During a Monthly Mixer, the members' area becomes a tool for the evening: scan each other's codes to connect, answer the night's icebreaker, see who you've met, and find the hosts.
Networking Mode in the Entrepreneurs Meet app during a Monthly Mixer: Meet, Icebreaker, People and Event.
// Deep dive 02 · The anywhere studio for songwriters
I'd love to have something like an effects pedal that makes it feel like I'm making music with someone that's not even in the room.
Riffs began as a co-design project with a musician from Austin, Texas. Musicians capture short song ideas, share them with other musicians, and learn from and build on each other's music.
Riffs: a platform for capturing and sharing short song ideas, co-designed with a musician from Austin, Texas.
// Screens and process
From a job to be done to a record-and-listen flow.
Long chats with my ex-bandmate in Austin, Texas turned into ideas about how we could compose music together in a fun way, without the baggage of working together as a band.
UI is laser-focused on a simple interaction and flow. Listen, record, share. Repeat.
Originally developed in 2024, this project remains a concept.
// Deep dive 02 · Live demo
The Riffs prototype, live.
Tap to try it · arrow keys still move the deck
The Riffs prototype running live inside the deck, on its Home screen. When presented, it can be tapped and explored.
// Studio · founded 2022
Brand and communications for VC and PE firms.
We started from zero, rebuilding the mark and rewriting the brand story. Website, brand manual, pitch decks, financial and impact reports, and all other assets flow from a single point of inspiration: the Power of Ten. As a DeepTech fund with diverse holdings, Ananda tells a story of impact investing that ranges from the microscopic to extraplanetary in scale.
Swanmakers is my brand and comms studio for VC and PE firms. Ananda: Our first client needed a rebrand for their fifth fund (€130MM AUM). Running research and cross-team co-design sessions lead to a complete rebrand and new communications strategy.
// Ananda · website
A website for a DeepTech impact fund.
[The Ananda website in one line: structure, what you designed and built.]
// Impact reports + infographics
Making fund impact data legible.
Impact reports for WakeUp Capital & Ananda: layout, infographics and data storytelling for funds and their LPs.
// From pitch decks
Infographics that convince, selected from pitch decks that raised.
// ARTCRANK · events
A poster party for bike people, brought to the UK.
ARTCRANK, a bike-poster show, started in Minneapolis. I brought it to Europe and ran the editions in London and other markets, working with 300+ artists over 12 years.
// ARTCRANK · my posters
My ARTCRANK poster designs.
These are my posters and screen prints.
TRANSMISSION ENDS · CAGLIARI
Thank
you
chris@swanmakers.com · linkedin.com/in/chrisverbick
