DUANE HARRIS — YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO — POLYMATH

A polymath who makes culture.

Creative technologist · copywriter · AI founder · builder · strategist · artist. Language as a system. All of it, on purpose.

WEBBY WINNER — APPLE TV+
TBWA\MEDIA ARTS LAB
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Apple TV+.
Webby.
TBWA\MAL.

Webby Award 2022 — Social

SIGNAL OPS.
BGCY.
HATARI.

AI agency. Civic tech. Music. All running at once.

RingReply HireFlow GrantBot

Language.
Systems.
Everything else.

Maximinimalism — fewer moves, bigger impact.

WORK 01 / 05
001 / 005
Webby Award 2022

Apple TV+

Built @appletvplus from zero at TBWA\Media Arts Lab. Invented the Carousel Spreads format. Wrote the language system. Built the content franchise structure.

"Instagram is a grid. A grid is a magazine. A magazine has covers."
TBWA\MALBRAND VOICE SOCIAL COPYSTRATEGY
APPLE
TV+
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[mentality]

750+ archived entries. Card-based publishing system with custom PNG rendering pipeline, Y2K/brutalist visual language, and platform-specific social packages. Live — and embedded further down in The Lab.

DESIGN SYSTEMPUBLISHING IPLANGUAGE
VISIT SITE →
[M]
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BGCY Bank

Full-stack youth engagement app for Boys & Girls Club of Youngstown. 120+ live members, staff PIN system, real classroom utility. Civic tech for the Steel Valley.

CIVIC TECHYOUTH WORKFULL STACK
REQUEST DEMO
BGCY
004 / 005

GLYPH.EXE

Bubble font studio with a Windows 98 aesthetic. Custom type without the friction. Started as a personal need. Now used by others.

TOOLTYPOGRAPHYUI/UX
LINK COMING URL TBD
GLYPH
005 / 005

[Word Worm]

284+ entries. Etymology as cultural criticism. Each entry a snapshot of language mid-formation. Coffee table dictionary in development.

PUBLISHING IPLANGUAGECULTURAL ANALYSIS
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THE LAB — LIVE

Tools I build.
Try them here.

Two of them are running below — embedded, live, interactive. Use them without leaving the page. The rest are in the pipeline.

mirrormentality.xyz OPEN →
LIVE • PUBLISHING
[mentality]

750+ archived entries. A card-based publishing system with a custom PNG rendering pipeline and a Y2K / brutalist visual language. This is the live archive itself.

DESIGN SYSTEMPUBLISHING IPSHIPPED
LOADING MENTALITY…
phonterpro.xyz OPEN →
LIVE • TYPE TOOL
[phonter]

Three type modes — Experiminator, Maxaminimalizer, Millennializer. Font pairings with actual personality. Pick a mode in the live tool and go.

TYPOGRAPHYTOOLSHIPPED
LOADING PHONTER…
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THE MACHINE

AI brand auditor. A layered system-prompt engine that diagnoses strategic drift and sharpens positioning. Live and selling on Gumroad.

LIVE — GUMROAD
LINK TBD →
ND
Neon Dream Aquarium

Full-stack web app — React + Supabase, built no-code via Lovable. Concept to deployed, live.

LIVE
LINK TBD →
pO
promptOS

Prompt management and iteration system. Organizes the prompt-engineering work across every vertical.

LIVE
LINK TBD →
Ze
ZEPHYRA

Astrologer app with a cosmic, dark aesthetic. Birth-chart reads, transits, predictive astrology — with actual depth.

IN DEV — BUILDING NEXT
Gl
GLYPH.EXE

Bubble-font studio with a Windows 98 UI. Type customization without the friction — folding into [phonter].

IN DEV
Ua
Ultra Audit

Site/product audit engine. Surfaces metadata staleness, design-system forks, and version drift — fast.

IN DEV
MUSIC — HATARI
HATARI

Every song is born twice — first as a demo, raw on tape; then as its album mutation. DAYSB4RAGE is the before, released on purpose.

DAYS B4 RAGE OUT/RAGE/US SATURN RETURN HOME B4 MOON SET

DAYS B4 RAGE isn't finished — that's the point. A trilogy that waterfalls out across the summer. Each chapter drops under its own subtitle; the full title only lands when all three complete. Watch it assemble — warm to cold — until a blizzard hands it to the ice.

DB4R · I / III THE HEAT SUMMER · FIRST TO DROP
01
WHOA NELLY OPENER
be the villain.
Track one. The tape clears its throat — everything after is consequence.
Prod. PAPACITO (Nicodee)
02
PLANET PAPACITO
might fuck around and open a portal.
The first orbit. A v2 already exists elsewhere — this is where it launched.
Prod. PAPACITO (Nicodee)
03
LEMONADE
when life gives you lemons, eat them.
Sour first. The sweet arrives in the mutation — this is the pucker.
Prod. Rich Mello
04
CHIP SKYLARK
smile like a threat.
Shiny-teeth energy. A cartoon reference that hardened into a mood.
Prod. Rich Mello
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ROCKSTAR RANDDY BONUS
the first one's free.
The first solo song I ever shared — self-titled, free, a slight flex. In as a bonus because it's already yours. The closest one to home.
Prod. David Arcade
DB4R · II / III THE DRIFT MID-SUMMER
05
SLUMDAWG BILLIONARE
no roster, just me and this money.
Broke and certain. The demo keeps the swagger the master will sand off.
Prod. Rich Mello
06
BERMUDA DIAMOND
lost by design.
Something got lost making this. That loss is the version you're hearing.
Prod. Optic Beats
07
COLLECTING CALLS
let it ring.
A voicemail never returned, flipped into a beat. Left raw on purpose.
Prod. NICODEE
08
BABUSHKA HOLIDAY
unpack yourself.
Somewhere far and warm — the last postcard before the weather turns.
Prod. Rich Mello
DB4R · III / III THE COLD FRONT LATE SUMMER · THE BRIDGE
09
RAGE ROVER
crash out. change your timeline.
The engine before the rage. You can hear where OUT/RAGE/US gets its fuel.
10
BETTER WEATHER
it can't rain forever.
Written waiting for it to clear. The demo still has the clouds in it.
11
SATURN RETURN
how many deaths have you lived?
The demo that named an era. The whole saga bends around this one.
12
BLUE JAY IN A BLIZZARD
be the bluejay in the blizzard.
146 BPM, C♯, no polish — the cold front's edge, where DAYS B4 RAGE hands off to the ice.
→ THE MUTATION · FALL / WINTER
LOVE YOU SHOULD TRY IT
Deep dark blue, moonlight dancing on the wavy reflection. Too cold for summer — this one isn't a demo. It's the first glimpse of what DAYS B4 RAGE mutates into: the ice project.
LISTEN ON SOUNDCLOUD →
SIGNAL OPS

AI that does
the work.

Steel Valley-built AI services for trades, hiring, and nonprofits. Real systems, not demos.

01 — VOICE AI
RingReply
AI receptionist for trades

Never miss a call. Answers, qualifies, and routes leads 24/7. Built for HVAC, plumbing, electrical — businesses that run on phones.

Starter / Pro / Enterprise
02 — HIRING AI
HireFlow
AI hiring screener

Screen applicants before they hit your inbox. Qualifies, scores, and summarizes — so you only talk to people worth talking to.

Pay-per-hire / Monthly / Unlimited
03 — GRANT AI
GrantBot
AI grant writing for nonprofits

From brief to draft. Knows how grants are written, what funders want, and how to position your org. Built from real relationships.

Per-grant / Retainer / Nonprofit rate

Strategy
first.
Culture
always.

"The best copy disappears into the culture. You stop noticing the words and start feeling the thing they were pointing at."
DRHJCREATIVE

Five years in LA writing social-first work for Apple TV+, Beats by Dre, Amazon Music, Airbnb, and Netflix — a Webby winner out of TBWA\Media Arts Lab. Now back in Youngstown building my own: THE MACHINE (a live AI brand auditor), Signal Ops, [mentality], [Word Worm], BGCY's Blue Crew, and HATARI. A polymath by trade and temperament — I don't switch hats, I wear them at once.

5+
YRS EXPERIENCE
WEBBY AWARD
750+
[MENTALITY] ENTRIES
300+
[WORD WORM] ENTRIES
2020 — 2022
TBWA\Media Arts Lab — Apple
Led Apple TV+'s Instagram launch. Jr. Copywriter → Copywriter in 11 months. Carousel Spreads, the voice system, content franchises.
Webby Award — Best Social Presence
2019 — 2023
Los Angeles
The agency years — Ghostpistols, TBWA\MAL (Apple), Translation (Apple Music Live, Beats, Coors), freelance for Airbnb and Amazon Music.
2023 — Present
SIGNAL OPS / drhjcreative
AI products that ship. THE MACHINE — a live brand auditor on Gumroad. [mentality] and [Word Worm] as publishing IP; Signal Ops services in build.
2025 — Present
Boys & Girls Club of Youngstown
Blue Crew — a real ad agency run by 11–13-year-olds. The Agency simulation, BGCY Bank. Civic tech meets education meets design.
Ongoing
HATARI / DUANYS WRLD
The outlet. Music and alter-egos. OUT/RAGE/US → SATURN RETURN → HOME B4 MOON SET.
LET'S BUILD SOMETHING

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© 2026 DUANE HARRIS / DRHJCREATIVE / HATARI YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO