About me, Elliot Hopkins.

Updated on August 30, 2025

I’m Elliot, a curious & creative person who loves mixing technology, design, and storytelling to make things that feel personal and meaningful. Whether I’m writing, designing, or coding, I’m always chasing new ideas and projects that spark connection or feeling. But who cares about that if you don't even know who I am, right? I mean, that's why you're reading my about page, after all.

Elliot as a child, around the age of 7, sitting in front of his first laptop computer, smiling.
Me as a child with my first computer.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a creative person and I’ve always been working on some new project. I’ve also always been fascinated by technology — whether I was playing with pretend electronics, messing around with my dad’s computer, or begging my parents for a computer of my own.

My creativity and my obsession with technology often collided, and as soon as I got my hands on tech, I started making things with it. I learned to code in Scratch, Python, and JavaScript as I made small programs and games. I built all sorts of simple websites with HTML & CSS. I also used my tech for other projects, like recording and editing YouTube videos, making animated stop-motion LEGO brickfilms, drawing and “animating” in MS Paint, and dabbling in some basic graphic design.

Now I’m in high school, and I’m both very different yet very similar to my younger self (funny how that works, right?). Just like back then, I’m still always working on some project and constantly picking up new interests in random, fun, nerdy things.

These days, I’m writing for my high school’s student newspaper, designing graphics for various projects (including the logo for a student-run record label), and constantly experimenting with and tweaking this website. My dedication to making this site personal runs deep — even the font you see in the headers is my own handwriting.

At the core of everything I do — whether it’s journalism, design, or music — is the same drive I had as a kid: a love of experimenting, tinkering, and bringing ideas to life. For me, one of the best feelings in the world is taking something that only existed in my head and making it real, even if it’s small or "unimportant" to others.

I’m also passionate about creating things that carry personality and emotion. Especially now, in a world where a lot of things feel corporate and where AI is changing how we think about so many things, I think it’s more important than ever to make things that feel human.

As for the future, I have a lot of things I want to do at some point in my life. Hopefully, I'll get to them all eventually. I want to be a teacher someday, work in tech somehow, and keep songwriting & producing music. I think I’ll always want multiple creative ventures going at once. No matter what I’m doing for work, I want to have at least one major project or hobby outside of it.

I don’t know exactly what my first steps will be from here, but I’m not that worried. I've always found a way to keep myself busy.

If you want to see what I’m working on, the apps I'm using, and the music I'm listening to, check out my now page. Or, if you’d rather dive into my thoughts and experiments, head over to my blog.