ABOUT ME

Born in Romania in the summer of 1997, in the city of Sighisoara – the same place where Vlad Ţepeş  - Dracula (1430 - 1476) was born. I spent the first 10 years of my life in Sighisoara, where I developed a passion for visual art and artistic drawing. At the age of 10, I moved with my parents to southern Italy, in Catania, Sicily, where I stayed until I was 20, nurturing my passion for art and graphic design. In 2013, I began collaborating with emerging artists in the Romanian music scene for fun, soon transitioning to work with more established artists and various clothing brands, companies, and others as a graphic designer or as creative director. In 2016, I won first prize with web design startup Flazio in collaboration with Google for the best design made in Sicily for one of my clients and friends Ottica Ferrante. In the same year, I launched my clothing brand called SickMikeShop, which gained popularity in Romania for over 2 years and kept selling clothes and accessories. I graduated in 2017 from the State Technical and Economic Institute "Gioacchino Russo" in Italy, specializing in Administration, Finance, and Marketing - Business Information Systems. At the age of 22, I settled in southern Germany, in Konstanz, where I continue to work as a graphic designer and creative director mainly for my brand, later finding time to expand and collaborate with clients as in the past.