hey, I'm
Illia Pogodin
software engineer & accidental artist
By day I build distributed systems at scale — the boring-but-important kind that serves billions of people. By night (and weekends) I rescue single-use plates from the recycling bin and draw on them.
Platesigns started as a way to make something small and tangible — a counterweight to the invisible, ephemeral work of software. Each plate takes maybe an hour. Each one is slightly wrong in a different way. That's the point.
Seattle, WA
Pacific Northwest, where the rain makes you stay inside and make things.
Meta
15+ years building things at Meta, Google, Salesforce. None of those things are plates.
Take a single-use paper plate
Draw something on it with a marker
Hang it on your wall like real art
GIF platform with short-link rendering. Powers a Chrome extension that drops a GIF picker right into YouTube comments — search, click, post.
Chrome extension that adds a searchable GIF picker next to the emoji button in YouTube comment boxes. Uses dwarfer.link short links so GIFs render inline for other extension users.