Skip to content
ak

Aydin Kalantar — Product Designer

Designing systems with the patience of a craftsman.

I design and build digital products, from interface to code, shaped by years of cutting and fitting natural wood veneer by hand. Precision is the common material.

Portrait of Aydin Kalantar in a sunlit brick studio
Fig. 01Designer · Developer · Maker
  1. 01  Product design
  2. 02  Interface engineering
  3. 03  Design systems
  4. 04  Wood veneer marquetry
Bob Marley, a round natural wood veneer marquetry portrait by Aydin Kalantar
Bob MarleyNatural wood veneer

The craft — Natural wood veneer

Made by hand, one sheet at a time.

Long before interfaces, I worked in wood. Each marquetry piece is assembled from hundreds of hand-cut fragments of natural veneer, chosen for grain, tone and the way it catches light. Nothing is stained or printed; every color is the wood's own.

The discipline carries into everything I design: respect for the material, tolerance measured in fractions of a millimeter, and the patience to fit each part until the whole feels inevitable.

  • Portraits
  • Abstract
  • Geometric
  • Commissions

About

A short hello.

I'm a product designer who works across user experience, code and physical craft. I take products from first sketch to shipped interface, and I bring the same tactile sense of material and detail from the workbench to the screen.

More about me
Fig. 02Introduction · 0:10

Contact

Have a product that deserves craft?

Based in Mayfield Heights, Ohio · Working with teams everywhere