Parker
The artisan behind the lacquer
привет! (Privet! - Hello!) I'm a Russian-Australian Designer, Developer & Content Creator based around Sydney, Australia. I treat interfaces the way Khokhloma masters treat wood: start with a dark, quiet ground, then apply ornament only where it earns its place. Most of my work lives at the front-end — Vue and React, but also the design decisions underneath: type scales, spacing systems, interaction states. What I find most interesting is the distance between a design file and a finished interface, and how much craft it takes to close it faithfully.
I didn't start here. My first degree was a Master's in international economics — reading systems, not building them. I retrained through a web development immersive, then a Bachelor of Arts in Digital Experience & Interaction Design, and picked up an Azure administrator certification along the way. Since 2018 I've worked front-of-house and back across agency and client sites in parking, mining, hospitality, retail and more — different industries, same brief: make it considered, not just functional.
Outside client work I run an independent production label where I build everything myself end-to-end: a podcast platform on Next.js 15, a browser game in React, and a blog — my own three-panel folk triptych of code, film criticism and mischief.
The artwork on this page is drawn from a piece I painted myself — a traditional spoon in the Kudrina style: black field, crimson rosette, gold leaves, rowan berries.
Painted, fired, shipped
Podcast platform
Full production site for an independent film-criticism podcast: git-backed CMS, custom RSS feed endpoint, zero-egress audio delivery, and a bespoke design system with strict token rules.
Publication
A film review publication built and operated end-to-end: custom domain and DNS, static delivery, and long-form criticism with proper Chicago-style citations.
Browser game
A darkly comic choose-your-fate horror game with a large library of authored scenarios driven from a single JSON data file, styled after Polish film posters.
Nothing filed under that craft yet.
Tools of the trade
Folk art, rendered in code
Khokhloma is a Russian folk painting tradition from the 17th century, originating in the forests of the Nizhny Novgorod region. Craftspeople decorated turned wooden objects — bowls, ladles, spoons — with a black lacquer ground, then applied ornament in red, gold, and green before firing in a kiln. Heat transformed silver tin powder into gold, producing the characteristic warm gleam of genuine Khokhloma lacquerware. The four colours — black, crimson, gold, green — have not changed in three centuries.
The style used here is Kudrina — a variation built on movement rather than pattern. Where standard Khokhloma fills the ground with isolated berries and leaves, Kudrina composes a kustik (little bush): a central rosette anchoring spiralling vine tendrils, with rowan clusters appearing where the stems branch. It is a style with a strict painting order — vine framework first, then leaves, then the rosette, then the berries last. The SVG animation in the hero follows that exact sequence.
The ornament on this site is drawn directly from a spoon I painted by hand. Every hex value in the colour system is sampled from that physical piece: the lacquer ground, the rosette crimson, the leaf gold, the vine green. The kustik SVG in the hero mirrors its composition — same stem geometry, same teardrop leaves, same twelve-berry clusters, same five rim dots. Building the site was, in a sense, painting the spoon again — this time in a text editor.
