i lead omnivore, a studio for exploring internet-native culture and taste.
for founders, creatives, and everything in between. welcome 🧸
hi, i'm aki! i'm a first-year at uc san diego studying interdisciplinary computing & the arts.
i spend most of my time at the intersection of ventures and narrative. i'm usually brought in as a 'storyteller' when something works in technicality, but doesn't yet make sense to people. tl;dr, a bona fide cultural editor.
i help turn ideas into something you can see, feel, and believe in via good brand productions and marketing. yes experimental graphic design, yes visually appealing launch videos, yes niche experiences & popups that matter.
i've worked with / at a16z-backed startups, yc china, baidu japan, and institutions like uc berkeley haas, supporting entrepreneurship programs and founder residencies. across these teams, i've operated on creative and marketing campaigns with ~$1M+ budgets, supporting companies that have collectively raised ~$100M+ and been featured in forbes and yahoo finance.
right now, i'm building omnivore. it's what you see here! it's a small studio exploring taste & capital with projects like above - how to creatively spend vc money at that - and how ideas travel across systems.
i'm also working on first loves, a series of physical collectibles about the moments that shape how people fall into hobbies, in collaboration with senior creative directors at nike.
outside of work, i'm usually watching the valorant champions tour, collecting pokémon cards, experimenting with touchdesigner or cavalry, or figuring out which techy gadget to buy next. feel free to say hi at aki@omnivore.studio if you're working on anything cool!
i believe & love work in these four (+1) things
Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.— Steve Jobs
forbes coverage of tripo — $50M series a, 3d ai. handled overseas operations & go-to-market.
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