The craft of design.
Made and taught, in the age of AI.

House of Maestro is a studio and an academy in Berlin. It's where we teach what we've learned about design — and where we keep figuring out what AI changes about the work.

Join our next Workshop in Berlin | June 12 2026

THE ACADEMY

How you can learn

Four ways to learn here. Pick the one that fits the week you're having.

Webinars

free

Live, sixty minutes, every month. A new topic each time. Replays go to subscribers within a day.

Courses

ENTRY

Self-paced programs you keep. Lifetime access, structured modules, and the kind of brief that makes you finish them.

Workshops

DEEP

One to two days online or in person, in Berlin. Small cohorts, real work shipped by the end, and a room you'll want to come back to.

1:1 Coaching

PREMIUM

Direct work, with me. Coaching for solo designers finding their way through AI, and small programs for in-house teams doing the same.

“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
NEXT EVENT

Coming up this month

AI for designers

IN-Person workshop

- Workshop intro + meet & greet
- Prompting and the AI design stack
- Activity: Build your working setup
- Lesson + demo: The new design process
- Capstone: Rebuild a piece of your work

June 18, 2026 - 1 hour

Berlin

Youtube

From the channel

Design System + AI

Most designers know AI can help with design systems. Few know how to set it up properly. This session shows the exact workflow: connecting Figma to Claude via MCP,  using skills to train AI on your tokens and components, running a real library audit, and generating new pages with Claude Design.

THE NEWSLETTER

Letters from the studio

Weekly notes on design, AI, and the craft of doing both well. Written from a working practice, not a content calendar.

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LAST ISSUES from the newsletter

Recent issues

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Issue #17

June 14, 2026

There's a quiet thread running through everything below: AI can now play almost every role on a design team — but it still can't tell you whether the work is good. That judgment is yours.So this issue is about both halves. Sharpening the eye that judges the output, and building the system that produces it faster.

The invisible Rules

I just released a short free guide...

Your AI Framework

Most designers are improvising with AI — a different approach...

Pixel & Prompt - Session 03

If you missed our live webinar about the AI designer stack...

DIGITAL RESOURCES

From the Shop

Files, kits, and small books we've made along the way. Bought once, yours for good.

Ebook

The invisible Rules

This short guide reveals the invisible rules underneath: hierarchy, color, type, and composition, distilled into the essentials.

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NOTIOn WORKSPACE

The Design Theory

Design theory is not about rules. It's about understanding why things work — so you can make better decisions, faster.

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Ebook

Design System + AI

Download our presentation as PDF based on the course "Design System + AI" on Maven.

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