Press · Ionut Maxim

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A small press kit for editors and journalists writing about design, clarity, mentorship, or the way independent practice tends to shape a career. Use anything here without asking. Credit appreciated, never required.

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01 · ONE LINE

Ionut Maxim is an independent designer, strategist & mentor based in Oslo, focused on clarity.

02 · ONE SENTENCE

Ionut Maxim is an independent designer, strategist, and mentor based in Oslo, working with maybe eight teams a year on small, well-shaped engagements in the space between design, product, and strategy.

03 · SHORT — ~60 WORDS

Ionut Maxim is an independent designer, strategist, and mentor based in Oslo. He has been building digital products for over twenty years, on his own since 2014. He works with mid-stage product teams across Europe and Japan, on engagements that tend to last between three weeks and three months, sized so they end well. He writes a quarterly essay on design judgment and runs a standing mentorship cohort for designers.

04 · LONG — ~120 WORDS

Ionut Maxim (b. Bucharest, 1988) is an independent designer, strategist, and mentor based in Oslo, Norway. He has been building digital products for over twenty years, on his own since 2014, including the Berlin studio Lemma, which he left in 2021 for quieter, solo work with eight to ten teams a year. His engagements sit in the space between design, product, and strategy: most often quiet, well-shaped, and short. He writes twenty-seven essays on design judgment, free at ionutmaxim.com, and convenes a standing year-long mentorship cohort of six mid-career designers. He speaks rarely, publishes when there is something to say, and is, on the whole, an unfashionably small practice on purpose.

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Photos, bios, talks.
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The shape of slow clarity.

On mentorship, as a discipline.

Six questions, in practice.

"The metric that has quietly stopped moving."

Judgment over process.

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