Nick Robalik

I'm a tech-saavy designer who prefers PC/Windows over Mac. I understand this makes me certifiably insane to most designers. They're wrong, but that's okay.

I wrote the first art program I ever used. It ran on MS-DOS, and let you position blocks of colored ASCII characters to make images. In 1987, it was awesome. It still kind of is.

I wrote my first book before I was old enough to drink. It was the top pre-order in its category on Amazon.com for two months. Don't buy it now, because a 12yr-old book on 3D animation is pretty out of date.

I worked in advertising long enough to confirm that most people who do are, in fact, completely soulless monsters.

I was active in the then-"New Media" community when living in Philadelphia, and spoke at multiple events. Then I looked around and saw nobody was listening and was still working on silly startups to snap up venture funding, was a bit disgusted at the non-sustainability of it all, and stopped. I think we're back at the same place, except now I'm seeing it happen in NYC and I'm more disgusted.

In Jan. 2011 opened a Coworking space in Brooklyn, NY to help designers get access to cool gear they wouldn't otherwise have available. It's called Bitmap.

I run a design shop called HERO, that does interactive design, development & animation for way-cool projects. 

I'm working on an independent video game, which you can read more about here.