Mirko Santangelo
Creative Director, Partner
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMirko Santangelo is a Creative Director and partner with 11 years of experience designing award-winning digital products, design systems, and motion-driven interfaces for clients like Google, The New York Times, Meta and PBS. Based in the New York City area, he leads Paper Tiger’s design strategy, mentorship and production tooling—building Figma plugins and workflows that boosted team efficiency by up to 70%. His career spans founding PhotoSpotLand, which earned civic recognition in London and investor interest from tech leaders, to teaching and jury roles that reflect a deep commitment to craft and community. Mirko also co-directs Italy’s largest Figma community and serves on the Awwwards jury, blending hands-on product design with thought leadership and event curation. A trained visual communicator with roots in photography and digital imaging, he brings a Zen-influenced focus on balance and iterative improvement to every project.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Design and Visual Communications, Bachelor's degree Design and Visual Communications at Accademia di Belle Arti di CataniaComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Università di Catania
Italian, English
Github Skills (17)
figma10
angular-component8
react-component6
react5
tagging5
javascript4
animation4
smooth4
tagsinput4
js4
html4
vue3
scroll3
angular3
scrolling2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PaperTiger/dark-ui
Dec 2018 - Feb 2022
Dark UI Mode Plugin for Figma App
Contributions:8 releases, 13 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 2 months
figmafigma-pluginsdark-theme
PaperTiger/figma-plugins
Mar 2018 - May 2019
The unofficial plugins panel for Figma App.
Contributions:49 commits, 1 PR, 38 pushes in 1 year 2 months
figmafigma-pluginsdark-ui
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