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Sai Karlen — Art Director and Designer.

A visual designer & artist focused on the creation of digital and physical experiences, design systems and brand identities.

Work led by research and experimentation to provide unique, straightforward and memorable solutions.

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Featured Projects

Sai Karlen
Digital Playground 2022-23

The Word Enigma on a purple cliff

Sebastian Moody
Voices 2022

Robert Andrew
Presence 2021

The Blak Infinite: Ellen van Neerven
Shoutlines & yaburuhma dugun (always sky) 2024

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View fullsize My tenth work for Genuary 2025. A very tricky exploration of TAU-only calculations in generative art. – Prompt 10: You can only use TAU in your code, no other number allowed. By @darienbrito – #genuary #genuary10
View fullsize My ninth work for Genuary 2025. A generative pattern tool inspired by the patterns found in public transport seating. . Playing catch up. – Prompt 9: The textile design patterns of public transport seating. By @piterpasma – #genuary #genu
View fullsize My eighth work for Genuary 2025. A series of particle fields with one million segments. – Prompt 8: Draw one million of something. By @piterpasma – #genuary #genuary8
View fullsize My seventh work for Genuary 2025. Mathematical artworks created using spreadsheets and colour scaled array formulas. – Prompt 7: Use software that is not intended to create art or images. By @camilleroux – #genuary #genuary7
View fullsize My sixth work for Genuary 2025. A generative voxel landscape tool composed entirely of primitive shapes.
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Playing catch up. – Prompt 6: Make a landscape using only primitive shapes. By @jbarbeau.art – #genuary #genuary6
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Iterating Isometric Cubes.
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Prompt 5: Isometric Art (No vanishing points). @p1x3lboy
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Parametric particles.
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Prompt 3: Exactly 42 lines of code. @roni.kaufman.art –
A particle visualisation tool that simulates complex motions with adjustable parameters. 
It allows real-time customisation to
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A tool for layering NURB Curves in dynamic and flowing fields.
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Prompt 2: Layers upon layers upon layers. @monokai –
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A HTML tool for creating these fun line patterns.
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Prompt 1: Vertical or horizontal lines only. 
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Businesses I work with:

Vandal Sydney
Biennale of Sydney
Onespace Gallery
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Magpie Goose
Blaklash
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Speculative Architecture
Mimili Maku Arts
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