Brand, product, visual, games and beyond: danko is A tech-oriented, multi-disciplined Design Lead with Thirteen years of international experience within a variety of industries.
A synesthete and polymath, Danko is a senior creative who strives to leverage empathy, data and imagination to explore ideas and execute solutions. A strong holistic approach grounds his creative process, collaborating with other talented professionals to iterate and shape scalable, intuitive, user-centric experiences.
Trained as a medical illustrator, Danko has since built up his skillset beyond most conventional creative role criteria. After over a decade working on international corporate identities, branding, product design, mobile games, app UI & UX, art direction and design direction, he has become a generalist who identifies as a creative monster.
Danko’s design process is both analog and digital, combining traditional and modern methods, mediums, tools, disciplines, materials and stimuli to experiment, explore and scale creative solutions for intelligent audiences.
After concluding a teaching position at George Brown College in Toronto, Canada, Danko moved to Berlin in 2014. While in Germany, he designed mobile games, upcycled furniture, branded tech startups, sundowned the Car2Go brand, joined a design agency studio and helped Commerzbank refine and modernize their digital services.
After relocating to Barcelona to join the Typeform creative team, Danko became the Founding Design Lead at Mash, where he helped a small startup team build a fintech SaaS from scratch, shaping the product and company identity.
Currently, Danko is collaborating remotely on user-focused initiatives, SaaS systems and streaming video products with major international clients as the Senior Product Designer within Axonista.
Danko is always interested in meeting over a coffee, soft or hard drink with fellow creatives, creators, builders and innovators.
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