Award winning UI/UX Designer, Visual Designer & Creative
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About

 

Klemen Selakovic is an award-winning UI/UX Designer & Podcast Host

Klemen worked and consulted for many international brands from San Francisco, USA, to Beijing, China.

He was named 2x a Young Creative of the Year at the national advertising festival (2013 & 2015), he won the Websi Award in 2014 & 2016, the Gold Diggit Award in 2014, and NETKO Award in 2020. He represented his nation at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for two nonconsecutive years, which resulted in Media Marketing magazine naming him as one of 55 young leaders in advertising in the wider Balkan region. In 2018 he was also accepted into Toptals elite network of the world’s top 3% freelance design talent.

Hosting AIDEA Podkast, he promotes unorthodox ideas about consciousness, drugs, technology, and the future of humanity. The show has over 5+ MILLION views and is often ranked as Slovenia's #1 podcast (Apple podcasts chart). Currently, it's getting 250,000+ downloads monthly.

Giving 20% of his earnings to the most effective charities. Deeply involved in the philosophy/movement of Effective Altruism. Promoting the idea of “giving back” by successful and wealthy individuals.

 
 
 
 

Host of AIDEA Podcast

Conversations about unorthodox ideas that are touching subjects of consciousness, drugs, technology, and the future of humanity that reached more than 4+ MILLION listeners since inception and is often ranked as the #1 podcast (Apple podcasts chart) in Slovenia.

 
 
 

Experience

  • 2021 - Currently | Tessera (New York, USA): Lead Product Designer

  • 2017 - 2021 | Toptal (Palo Alto, CA): Freelance UX & UI Designer

  • 2016 - 2021 | EventBank (Beijing, China): UX / UI Design Consultant

  • 2018 - 2020 | NiceHash (Ljubljana, Slovenia): UX / UI Design Consultant

  • 2015 - 2021 | Freelance: UX / UI Designer & Digital marketing consultant

  • 2015 - 2016 | Reciprocity Inc. (San Francisco, USA): UX / UI Designer & Product Manager

  • 2014 - 2015 | SSDMS: President

  • 2013 - 2015 | Fanfara: Lead of digital communication

  • 2013 - 2015 | Parsek d.o.o. (Ljubljana, Slovenia): UX / UI Designer & Digital marketing consultant

  • 2012 - 2013 | Parsek d.o.o. (Ljubljana, Slovenia): Project Manager

  • 2011 - 2015 | SSDMS: Active Member

 

Making My Mom Proud

(Awards)

  • Best Website, Company or Startup Category, NETKO Awards, 2020

  • Honorable Mention, Awwwards, 2019

  • Best Concept & Best Design, ICONOMI Blockchain Hackathon 2017

  • Young Creative of the Year, Slovenian Advertising Festival, 2015

  • Young Creative of the Year, Slovenian Advertising Festival, 2013

  • Young Creatives - Special Mention, Integrated category, Eurobest 2017

  • 55 Young Leaders in Advertising, Media Marketing, 2015

  • Gold Award, DIGGIT, 2014

  • Grand Prix, Non-profit category, Websi, 2016

  • Grand Prix, Non-profit category, Websi, 2014

 
 
 

Partial Client List

Adriatic Slovenica
AirBnB
Generali
Google
Gorenje
HubSpot
Krka
institute of jozef stefan
L'Oréal
Loterija slovenije
La Roche-Posay
Peugeot

Sensodyne
Simobil
Sixt
SpaceX
t-2
Telekom Slovenije
Uber
university of ljubljana
Vichy

 
 
 

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