Biography
Dr. Michal (Mike) Jelinek is a designer and researcher working at the intersection of creative practice, cognition, and emerging technologies.
His work explores creative cognition in action: how ideas arise through thinking, sketching, movement, tools, and interaction with materials, across physical and virtual environments. He has contributed to industrial, entertainment, and research-driven projects, and has taught and published on creative processes in design.
In one-on-one sessions, he offers thoughtful, experience-based feedback that connects creative outcomes with the cognitive processes behind them.
Mike has worked on projects such as Terminator:Dark Fate, Love, Death and Robots, Future Ink with Wacom and Ars Elektronika, and many others.
Skills
Roles
- Mastery
- Advanced
- Advanced
Technical Skills
- Mastery
- Advanced
- Advanced
- Advanced
Software
- Mastery
- Mastery
- Mastery
- Advanced
- Intermediate
Soft Skills
- Mastery
- Advanced
- Advanced
- Advanced
- Advanced
Languages
- Fluent/Native
- Fluent/Native
- Basic
- Basic
Other Skills
- Mastery
- Advanced
Work Experience
2023 – Present day
Lead - Assistant Professor (Part Time)
Slovak University of Technology
2018 – Present day
Concept Designer
Blur
2020 – 2023
Manager - Creative Thinker - Product Management and Research (Full Time)
Wacom (Germany/Japan ... Global)
Researching the creative processes
Education
Present day
MA
Teesside university (Prague College)
Future design
2018 – 2023
Doctor
Slovak University of Technology
Art and Design
My PhD research investigated creative cognition in design, exploring how ideation emerges through sketching, movement, and interaction with material and digital tools. The work combined cognitive science, design research, and practice-based inquiry to examine the role of the body in thinking and creative decision-making during early design processes.