Head shot of Matt Lemche

Web Developer | Video Editor | Layout Designer

My first design project started with an old chair that I pulled from the basement of our family home at age 13. I wanted to see it transformed from traditional to modern, and I wanted to create something useful from forgotten material. This experience of learning through doing has shaped my career path. When I get into the nuts and bolts of things, I feel most excited about possibilities. I believe that uncovering how something works creates bridges in the imagination across which new concepts can enter the world.

As a developer, I love the magic of seeing something begin as lines of code and finish as a beautiful digital experience. My aim is to help thinkers, designers, and creators bring their ideas to life and to share them with the world.

  • preview of the decades project web app.

    The Decades Project is a documentary series that explores long-lasting friendship and the creation of personal milestones, with episodes recurring every ten years. This site was a one-day build that I created to bring attention to the approaching anniversary of the project. The team needed something simple but with a touch of intrigue all under a very tight deadline. You'll recognize this project in my motion graphics section as well.

  • preview of dear urban cyclist web app.

    Dear Urban Cyclist began as a Reddit post in 2020. The author had ambitions of turning his concise set of rules into an attractive S.P.A. I created a design along with a few illustrations that played off of the stern yet good-humoured tone of the text by adding a bit of relaxed whimsy.

  • preview of rummage app.

    Rummage was my culminating project at BrainStation. Completed from proposal to deployment in 20 days, it was a real test of my emerging skills. I decided to tackle building my own database, since that was my area of least experience. I focused a lot on getting the look right, a holdover from my design days.

  • preview of moody app.

    Moody App was the result of a 24hr pair-programming "hackathon". Fellow developer Ali Akbar and I created a light-weight, song-suggesting app that reads text input to assess tone. Using a combination of an API that reads sentiment from text, and the music catalog API from LastFM, we were able to create an app that suggests songs based on the user's perceived mood.

  • preview of who said what website.

    Who Said What? is the result of a 24hr group "hackathon". Fellow developers Maggie Rodrigues, Omar Said, Steven Loewen, and I decided on the concept and brought the idea to life in less than a day after only four and a half weeks of our program.