Hi, I’m Michael Verdi.

Risograph print by me.

I’m a product designer and artist. I work at Mozilla on the Firefox web browser.

I’ve had many past lives including: nuclear sub engineer, performance artist, videographer, Ironman, high school teacher, and freelance designer/stay-at-home dad. I helped invent vlogging in the pre-YouTube days, and wrote a how-to book about it.

For the last few years I’ve been obsessed with combining zines, film, and games. And now that the Apple Vision Pro is out, you can add immersive, 180 degree, 3D video to that list. I’m documenting my process here on this blog. I also send out a free printed zine and an occasional email newsletter. Sign up to get them both.