SAJJAD TAGHIZADEWORK / THE JOURNEY

Design, technology & everything I have built

Always building.
Always moving.

From my first blog to design, software and products. A journey of learning, making and starting again.

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WHERE IT STARTED

Before the job titles.
Before the first office.
It started with a computer.

Before 2013 / Learning by doing

It started
with a blog.

I started with blogs, then built 98soft.tk, a tutorial site that won first place in a school competition around 2009–2011. By sixteen, I was working under the name Devpedia and getting into graphic design.

Devpedia / Around sixteen
SCHOOL BLOGGING COMPETITION1st

98soft.tk.
My first recognition for making something online.

2009–2011Before Devpedia, there were blogs and 98soft.tk.

2013 / Pardis residential complex

Far from my path.
Still moving.

Two colleagues wearing hard hats at the Pardis construction site, from my 2013 archive.
ON SITE / 2013
Exterior of the Pardis residential complex.
PARDIS / THE PLACE
A DIFFERENT KIND OF WORK

The summer before university. Around seventeen or eighteen, doing technical support, computer work and digital inventory at a construction project.

2014 / Mashhad / Developers Pedia

Nineteen.
My first office.

A friend backed me. I thought we were going to change everything. Most days, I was designing logos and business cards.

First businessDesign & websites
Sajjad at his desk in the Developers Pedia office in 2014, working on a small Samsung netbook.
MY FIRST OFFICE, 2014That tiny laptop is still with me.

About a year after opening

We couldn't
make it last.

The rent was higher than the work could support. My friend lost money. I was falling behind at university. We closed the office.

20

I still look at that photo
and feel proud of what
I tried to do.

2015–2018 / Selected graphic work

Covers. Logos.
Everything in between.

Music artwork, visual identities and packaging. I kept making covers as Devpedia after the office closed, then changed my artist name to Lunaticbrain.

Music artwork with a fiery sky
Dark portrait music artwork with red accents
Collage portrait music artwork
Music artwork with a luminous turquoise skull
Nakoja music artwork with a cosmic capsule
Black and white music artwork with a crescent
Gold music cover with illustrated lettering
Foolish music artwork with a translucent skull
Iran-shaped fingerprint artwork

Independent design work

Mehr Aria
Atinik
Fitvibe
Gergedan
Saffron packaging
Food brand identity

2019–2022 / DM360

A different
scale of work.

~18,000 files in six months.The first half of my final year at DM360.

Advertising, campaigns and design at DM360.

American Buffalo theatre poster
Social media advertising report designed at DM360
Ivan Rahmat campaign artwork
Presidential candidates & social media report designed at DM360
VenzCafe advertising artwork
Shahr Bank advertising artwork
Banks & social media report designed at DM360
DM360 website design

Clients & collaborations

DigikalaBank Melli IranNeshanIran InsuranceBank TejaratBaladSnowaPegahBank ShahrKarafarin InsuranceAkharin KhabarHyperMe

Artechio

An independent creative practice. Where creativity meets technology. Independent by choice. Personal by nature.

There’s another side. Move to discover.Touch to peek. Reveal it all below.

AfaTech GmbH / HerzensApp GmbH

It started
with a website.

Then came app interfaces, dashboards and more responsibility. As they saw what I could do, the collaboration grew. I worked across projects and roles, often at the same time.

HerzensApp

From the web
to the app.

WordPress, app UI/UX and portal design.

HerzensApp mobile application interface
Our team together at the office
The people behind the projects.

TimeTK / Selected interfaces

TimeTK dashboard and mobile interface
Attendance tracker interface
AI report analyzer interface
Premade prompt interface

There was much more. These are some of the projects I can show.

During the internet shutdown amid the twelve-day war, we lost contact. That marked the end of our collaboration.

After the twelve-day war / Saiko

One website.
Then much more.

After the shutdown ended my previous collaboration, I was looking for work again. That search led me to Saiko, almost by chance.

01 / THE START

We started with a website.

Then the website became an app. A brand redesign followed. What I was working on kept growing.

SAIKO / WEBSITE
Website image to follow
APP
App screens to follow
IDENTITY
Brand artwork to follow

Saiko / Packaging & production

Beyond
the artwork.

Packaging design and print were familiar territory. Finding a direct supplier in China and arranging a large packaging order for Germany was new to me.

This time, the work extended beyond designing the box to figuring out who would make it and how to get it there.

PACKAGING / PRODUCTION
Packaging and production images to follow

2026 / Disconnected again

Day88.

The internet went down in the middle of all this. I kept working on the Saiko app offline.

A nationwide shutdown. Access gradually returned before the next blackout.

Disconnected again. More than 2,000 hours before partial access returned.

The app work continued through the shutdown and is still ongoing today.

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