about

made by a small studio in northern italy.

madpixel is a one-person studio out of bologna, italy, founded by massimo albanese. we make tools that sit at the intersection of software, product design, and visual craft — the kind of tools we'd want to use ourselves on a sunday afternoon.

who we make things for

album cover designers. editorial illustrators. vjs running friday-night sets. indie game devs juggling six asset pipelines. photographers who treat raw images like dough, not glass. ai-art remixers looking for actual creative control.

people who want their software to be a material, not a service.

what we believe

• own what you buy. perpetual licenses, drm-free fallbacks, offline-by-default. subscriptions are a fair trade for ongoing infrastructure (ai inference, model hosting), but they shouldn't gate software you already paid for.
• opinionated > configurable. every menu item is a small failure of design. we'd rather make four good choices than ship forty mediocre ones.
• compose, don't filter. our tools are procedural and node-based because the interesting work happens when you can take something apart and put it back differently.
• we use what we ship. if we wouldn't open it on a sunday, we don't ship it.

founder

massimo albanese — software, design, and most of the pixel-pushing. previously [TODO: real bio copy here — past work, talks, exhibits, the madpixelsort origin story].

get in touch

hello@madpixel.com — for support, questions, partnerships, or to argue about color management.