Simo Virtanen

@simovirtanen.com

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Designer, co-founder & CEO at Sakeus, a three-person digital design company. Prefers Rails views over JS frameworks. Video game hobbyist, bass player and synth-addict, sci-fi/fantasy reader, and always looking for cool music to listen.

The cover for Johanna Lindsey's romance novel 'A Heart So Wild'. The heaving bosom of a red headed lady in a pink dress takes center stage as the lady is embraced by a darkhaired man in cowboy gear, with a gun in its holster. In the background, a withered tree is looming behind a campfire as the couple sits in a flower bush.
A Dingwall Z multi-scale bass guitar with a purple turquoise reverseburst finish.
A stack of books. Terry Pratchett’s Wintersmith, A Hat Full of Sky, and The Last Hero, and Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves.
The brass nut installed on a bass neck
A new nut for a Warwick bass guitar in a package
In the foreground there is a book held with its spine towards the camera. It’s Brandon Sanderson’s Wind and Truth, Book Five of The Stormlight Archive series. In the background there’s a table with a small flower pot and a bottle of beer on it. Behind the table the flooring of the terrace and a green yard with bushes and a hedge basking in sunlight can be observed.
A pile of 7 books on a bookshelf. Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men and The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Martti Haavio’s two books about Finnish folklore, and Brandon Sanderson’s Wind & Truth, Tress of the Emerald Sea, and The Sunlit Man.
The pocketbook edition of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel “The Truth”
A screenshot from a Finnish game store listing Nintendo Switch 2 at 569 euros and the bundle with Mario Kart World at 629 euros. That converts to approximately 627USD and 695USD respectively.
The paperback editions of seven books lay on a carpet. On the left side lay Kurt Vonnegut’s “Bluebeard” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater”. On the right, books are laid in two rows. The top row has three Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels “Monstrous Regiment”, “Thud!”, and “Snuff”. The bottom row has two books: “The Science of Discworld” by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen and “The Long War” by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.
The Westminster bridge during the day. There is no traffic or pedestrians visible anywhere, which is unusual. The Big Ben is standing at the end of the bridge and the Palace of Westminster is to its left. The sky is almost clear blue.
The paperback version of Brandon Sanderson’s novel Rhythm of War, the fourth in the Stormlight archive book series. It’s a thick book of over 1200 pages. The book is held in the poster’s hand, in front of a canvas print depicting Discworld’s Death in denim overalls sitting under a tree.
Instagram search of #kamalaharris shows a message “We’ve hidden these results. Results for the term you searched for may contain sensitive content”.
The cover of Stephen Fry’s Mythos. It depicts Hermes’s winged shoe in the center of the cover with silhouettes of some of the Greek gods around it
Screenshot from Spotify Wrapped with text ”June was your Goth Grind Death Metal moment”
The mock-up image of the Amesoeurs self-titled vinyl record. It’s a double album.
Playstation 5 game Metaphor: ReFantazio
The cover to the 1981 edition of Walter Tevis' Mockingbird. In the background there's a sunset with that paints the sky with the color of fire. In the foreground there's a desolate city with a crumbling skyscraper in the center of the view. Next to the skyscraper there's a text "A love story of the far future".
A blue sky with a brightly shining yellow Sun illuminating the frost covered bushes sticking out from the untarnished snow covered ground.
The cover of Douglas Adam’s The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Figma CEO Dylan Field interviewed by Delian Asparouhov at Slush