# Pablo Stanley

> Pablo Stanley is a Mexican designer, illustrator, educator, and co-founder of Blush and Lummi. His remixable illustration libraries include Avataaars, Humaaans, Open Peeps, and Open Doodles. He works on Vercel’s creative team on v0 and builds independent creative tools. Udemy acquired Lummi in June 2025.

- **Role:** Designer on the creative team at Vercel, working on v0
- **Organizations:** Vercel, Blush, Lummi, InVision, Lyft, Udemy, Bueno, Latinxs Who Design, Sketch Together, Canva
- **Nationality:** Mexican
- **Education:** Bachelor’s degree in Design and Visual Communications, Centro de Estudios Universitarios Xochicalco
- **Known for:** Created remixable illustration libraries Avataaars, Humaaans, Open Peeps, and Open Doodles., Co-founded Blush, which makes artists’ illustrations customizable., Co-founded Lummi, acquired by Udemy in June 2025.

## Career timeline

- **2011** — Visited San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum on December 30, bought drawing supplies, and made two comics that he posted to 9GAG the following morning.
- **2013–2015** — Product design and teaching at Udemy, according to his portfolio.
- **2015** — Began Sketch Together, his YouTube design-teaching project.
- **2016–2018** — Created The Design Team comics.
- **2017–2020** — Worked in product design at InVision.
- **2017** — Released Avataaars, according to his portfolio.
- **2018** — Released Humaaans.
- **2020** — Published Open Peeps launch results on February 25; co-founded Blush.
- **2021** — Created Robotos; TIME Studios announced development of a children’s series based on the collection in November.
- **2022–2023** — Founded and worked on Bueno, according to his portfolio.
- **2023** — Portfolio dates the Lummi and Musho projects to this period.
- **2024–present** — Works on Vercel’s creative team, including v0.
- **2025** — Udemy announced its acquisition of Lummi on June 18.
- **2026** — Continues building tools and writing about AI, design, and human-computer interaction.

## Achievements

- Created remixable illustration libraries Avataaars, Humaaans, Open Peeps, and Open Doodles.
- Co-founded Blush, which makes artists’ illustrations customizable.
- Co-founded Lummi, acquired by Udemy in June 2025.
- Reported 6,435 Open Peeps launch-day downloads and $1,801.75 in proceeds; announced a $500 donation to Latinitas.
- Created Robotos, the collection behind a children’s series development announcement from TIME Studios in 2021.
- Teaches through Sketch Together and online design courses.
- Created The Design Team comic and helped build Latinxs Who Design.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Appeared on Dive Club on July 21 to discuss prototyping v0’s design mode, Efecto, hilos, and creativity with AI.
- **2026-04** — Published “Friction Is the Feature: Agentic Design teams with personalities” on LinkedIn on April 7.
- **2026-02** — Published “A new way of interacting with the machine,” predicting more conversational, generative interfaces.
- **2025-06** — Udemy announced its acquisition of Lummi.

## Links

- Website: https://www.pablostanley.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pablostanley1/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/pablostanley
- GitHub: https://github.com/pablostanley
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/sketchtogethertv
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pablostanley/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pablostanleyart

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Last updated: 2026-10-22