Hi, nice to meet you!

I am...

  • Matti Vähätalo
  • a 26-year-old web designer and developer
  • originating from Finland
  • living in São Paulo, Brazil
  • also giving English lessons in addition to my "proper job" (see mattiv.com/idiomas)

I have...

  • worked on web design for 5 years
  • been freelancing part-time since October 2007, and full time since December 2009
  • graduated on Interactivity Design and gotten my diploma of Bachelor of Media at the end of 2008 from TAMK University of Applied Sciences, School of Art and Media, one of the most highly valued design, media and art schools in Northern Europe

I enjoy...

  • travelling
  • music
  • games
  • philosophical conversations
  • history
  • deepest mysteries of life, science, religion and the universe
  • 42
  • football (soccer) and beer

I am also...

  • passionate about technology and the Internet
  • curious and eager to learn
  • straightforward and open in social encounters, but I also have my shy side
  • diplomatic, but sometimes very stubborn

I believe in...

  • honesty and transparency in life and in business
  • feelings as a motivator, reason as the tool to achieve
  • wanting less being the key to satisfaction

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

-George Bernard Shaw