About


Ned Karlovich is a systems designer based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Now
Institute of Free Technology, Logos・2021 to present

Executive Creative Technologist. Prototyping and shipping applications on the Logos stack, building AI agent tooling for it, and leading 404 Dynamics, the internal creative studio.

Previously
Nike・OLIVER / Adidas・Magic Leap・Status・R/GA・The Invisible Party・Fahrenheit 212・ATTIK

Global Creative Director, Brand Design, at Nike (on staff 2007 to 2011 and 2021 to 2023, freelance 2013 to 2019). Executive Design Director at OLIVER / Adidas (2020 to 2021). Brand Creative Director at Magic Leap (2019 to 2020). Creative Director at Status (2018). Group Creative Director at R/GA (2016 to 2018). Co-founder and Creative Director of The Invisible Party (2011 to 2015), and Creative Director at …,staat Amsterdam (2011 to 2012). Design Director at Fahrenheit 212 (2006 to 2007). Senior Designer at ATTIK (to 2006).

See the projects
Works on

AI agent systems and LLM evaluation, agentic infrastructure on NixOS, open-weight model deployment and local inference, brand and interface systems, and games.

Read the case studies
Stack

Python, TypeScript, Django, FastAPI, React, Next.js, NixOS, PostgreSQL.

Education
Yale・School of Visual Arts・Carnegie Mellon・PennWest Edinboro

Yale University (MA, Painting). School of Visual Arts (MFA, Graphic Design, Designer as Author). Carnegie Mellon University (BFA, Painting). PennWest Edinboro (BA, Graphic Design).

Contact
ned.karlovich@pm.me

Email is the quickest way to reach me. The CV has the full history, with a PDF.

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