Teepagorn
Champ
Wuttipitayamongkol
The studio is one person. Writer, translator, and founder of Geppetto Studio. Twenty years spent on the line between people, technology and culture, from both sides of it.
I studied computer engineering and then spent most of my career writing. Those two things never stopped running in parallel, and this studio is what happened when they finally met.
I founded exteen.com, the blogging platform a generation of Thai writers grew up on, and ran it for seven years. I co-founded The MATTER and was its executive editor, and helped start Salt Publishing. I have written close to twenty books of my own and translated more than ten, most of them circling the same question: what is technology doing to us, and what is left that is ours.
On the commercial side I led social marketing at Netflix, then at Amazon Prime Video in Singapore, was Deputy Managing Director at BrandThink, and Chief Marketing Officer of Thairath Group, Thailand's largest media company, through its digital transition.
Geppetto brings that work together: teaching people to think and make with technology, building tools and toys, consulting, writing, and translating. Some pieces begin with a commission; others begin with a question I want to explore.
Technology that keeps people human.
Geppetto is my studio for thinking and making with technology. The work takes five forms: Teach, Tools, Toys, Think, and Text. Each is a way to explore what technology can do for our curiosity, creativity, judgment, and relationships.
Teaching helps people develop their own judgment. Tools take care of routine work. Toys make room for play. Consulting helps clarify a question, and writing gives an idea a form that someone else can think with.
I choose the questions, shape the work, and stay involved in making it. The studio gives these different interests a place to develop together, through work of my own and collaborations with others.
Let’s make something worth making.
Bring a question, an idea, or something you would like to learn.