Emīl Blūm

A designer focused on untangling complexity to present the truth.

I'm operating somewhere between a designer, artist and chronic experimenter. For the past 15 years, I have applied my imagination, logic, and curiosity to help strangers, friends, and myself communicate what's worth paying attention to. Currently doing that as a founder and Creative Director at Calumma. This website is my "Library of Everything" — a living archive of how my brain works and what I enjoy pursuing.

Role Clarity · Craft · Wonder

Based Northern Portugal

Focus Truth · Play · Rebelliousness

Status Open for partnerships

Currently Founder of Calumma

01 Featured A selection of work that guided me to uncover what I enjoy creating the most. 02 Code Tools, toys, and experiments built with LLMs as co-builders to explore what earlier was unreachable. 03 Art The expressive and personal practice in contrast to a career spent making things clear and organised. 04 Moments The ordinary and wonderful, captured through various lenses over many years. 05 Swarf Offcuts, abandoned directions, and experiments that helped inform the final solutions. 06 About The story arc of my curiosities, how I got where I am and what I'm doing to go further. 07 Play Interactive experiments — things to click, explore, and get briefly lost in.

08 Connect

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