Astro

Shinji Pons
Software designer
Available

My expertise lies in the design of 3D tools and workflows for creative professionals. Right now, I'm taking my time to look for my next role.

Get in touch if

you are building software that helps other make things
deeply care about human creativity, design and quality

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Experience

2025 - 2026
2025
2024
Acquired by Figma
2023 - 2024
2022 - 2023
2019 - 2021
2017 - 2019
2016 - 2017
2015
2014
2013
2012 - 2013

Projects

2026

Farm Mobile

iPhone showing a mobile app for a Form 4L 3D printer mid-print: a live camera view of a tall lattice-supported part, 'Handle v1' at layer 750 of 2,564 with 7 h 02 min remaining, Pause Job and Abort Job buttons, and a 3D preview of the current print — Image title
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Square view of an iPhone showing the Form 4L printer app mid-print, with a live camera feed of a lattice-supported part, 'Handle v1' at layer 750 of 2,564, Pause Job and Abort Job buttons and a 3D preview of the current print — Image title
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2025

PreFarm

Multi-axis slicing and a point-to-point measurement tool for PreFarm.

PreFarm 3D print preparation software showing a monkey head model with support structures on a build platform, next to printer and job settings — Image title 1
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2024

Ragdoll Dynamics

UI design for Ragdoll across web, Maya and Blender.

Ragdoll in Maya with a colorful wooden mannequin posed mid-dance above a timeline of motion clips and effect tracks — Image title 2
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Ragdoll with a posed mannequin, a clip timeline and effect panels for pulsifier, springyness, motion repeater and kompressor — Image title 3
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2019

Autodesk Alias SubD

Subdivision modelling in Autodesk Alias.

Autodesk Alias AutoStudio with a Porsche 911 subdivision model seen from the side, shaded in red and blue diagnostic colours — Image title
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Top view of the Porsche 911 subdivision model in Alias, shaded in red and blue diagnostic colours — Image title
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Polestar-style coupe modelled in Alias with the subdivision cage drawn over the diagnostic-shaded surface — Image title
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Grey studio render of a sleek coupe on a dark background — Image title
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Render of a green sculpted car body with flowing surfaces on a pale cracked ground — Image title
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Alias Surface Fillet Control window next to a rounded-edge surface with green control points on a dark background — Image title
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Side view of a supercar in Alias with a red subdivision control cage over a wireframe model, beside the Object Lister — Image title
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Flow diagram of what a user can extrude on a subdivision model, covering edges and faces with the normal direction and transform manipulator, in white and orange on black — Image title
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2018

Dynamo for Autodesk Alias

Integrating the Dynamo visual programming system into Alias to make generative designs impossible by hand, without the geometry ever leaving Alias.

Close-up of a rippling surface tessellated into small triangles, shaded from bronze and dark brown to bright silver — Image title
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Alias window showing a dark rectangular slab pierced by a grid of countersunk round holes — Image title
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Dynamo node graph of sliders, code blocks and list nodes over a radial pattern of hundreds of black circles — Image title
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Pink and blue faceted tube made of folded triangles, narrowing in the middle, on a grey background — Image title
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Three curved surfaces in a row shaded from orange to white and dark red, with progressively finer triangle tessellation, on black — Image title
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2014

Nothing has Changed

Artworking for the inner sleeves of the David Bowie compilation album.

Vinyl record sliding out of a teal sleeve holding handwritten lyrics, on a green background — Image title 6
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Handwritten lyrics on lined paper over a teal sleeve and a portrait of David Bowie, on a green background — Image title 7
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2014

Computational Typography

Generative typography made in Adobe InDesign with the open source library basil.js.

Abstract render of angular teal and blue shards dissolving into a hazy blue field, with a dark curved ridge and a patch of red in the corner — Image title
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Blurred abstract image of dark purple and bright green swirling forms streaking outward from the centre — Image title
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Poster of the words 'Tell me the secret which you possess.' scattered along looping orange line-art ribbons on white — Image title
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Page of dense serif text from Epictetus with a stream of individual letters scattered along a U-shaped curve across it — Image title
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Overlapping black and grey rectangles with soft gradient edges, in horizontal bands on white — Image title
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Dense black-and-white texture of fine streaks spiralling around a central point — Image title
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Vertical stripes fading from lime green at the top to deep blue at the bottom — Image title
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Black grid of fine lines distorted into a burst radiating from a dense black centre, on white — Image title
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Poster reading 'stop think look buy' in pixel letters surrounded by black-and-white warped stripes — Image title
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Overlapping rotated translucent squares forming a star-like flower, from yellow-green at the centre to purple at the edges — Image title
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Soft-edged dark green shape against bright yellow, with a jagged faceted boundary — Image title
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Soft red gradient fading into pale cream on the right — Image title
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2012

Louvre Abu Dhabi

Supergraphics and icon design for the museum in English, French and Arabic.

White angular pictogram figure on a black square — Image title 8
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Black pictograms of an elevator with passengers, a walking person, a person with a cane and two children, on white — Image title 9
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Black pictograms of a cafe cup, gift, cloakroom, coat hanger, headphones and stroller, on white — Image title 10
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Pencil sketches of angular pictogram figures around two finished black adult and child figures — Image title 11
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Desk covered with pen sketches and printouts of angular human pictogram studies, with a ruler and set square — Image title 12
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Printed sign layout on a table with English, French and Arabic labels for Exhibition gallery, Cafeteria and Exit — Image title 13
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Row of white three-dimensional letters being assembled on a workshop table next to a ruler, tape and scissors — Image title 14
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Side projects

Select Parent Component
Select components quickly in Figma
Claude Skills
My personal Claude skills