Karl Emil James Koch
Equal parts designer & developer
Design Engineer by day at DuckDuckGoand by night at Cosmic.
Things I've built
KK Sans A humanist sans serif
d×e Learn and grow
Plugins.run Figma utility plugins
Tailwind Size Conversion Pixels ⇔ Tailwind classes
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Content I've written
You Aren’t That Important Some thoughts on the Burnout Epidemic™On Hiring Rethinking design hiring: Balancing skill assessment with respect for candidate timeScrew it, I’m also making a typeface A journey of making a typeface
Music I've released
Echoes ✺ 2014 ✺ L.P.The Pursuit 
Echoes ✺ 2016 ✺ SingleA Year in the Light 
Echoes ✺ 2017 ✺ L.P.Cornerstone 
Slowdance ✺ 2019 ✺ L.P.Bad Dream 
Echoes ✺ 2022 ✺ SinglePyre 
Echoes ✺ 2022 ✺ Single2029 
Echoes ✺ 2022 ✺ E.P.Ever After
Places I've been featured
8px Clipped Content #10 19 Feb 20248pxFeatureInside The Minds: Life as a Design Technologist 29 Nov 2023FigmaSpeakingWhy taking chances comes down to trusting yourself, according to Karl Koch 19 Sep 2023PolyworkFeature
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