About open Maris

We make
things.

01 The company

open Maris is an independent company built around a simple idea: create without having to decide what everything has to become first.

We develop physical products, digital experiences, software, media, and experimental ideas.

Some projects begin with a problem. Others begin with curiosity. Some start as a sketch, a thought, or something that simply feels like it should exist.

The medium is secondary. The idea comes first.

02 The idea

Not one thing. Many possibilities.

Most companies begin by defining exactly what they are. A software company. A design studio. A hardware company. A media company.

open Maris was created without that restriction.

We don't want the category to determine what we are allowed to create. If an idea belongs in software, we build software. If it belongs in the physical world, we build something physical.

And if an idea belongs somewhere between those boundaries, we are interested in that too.

03 What we make

Different mediums. One place.

01

Physical

Objects, devices, products, and physical systems designed to exist in the real world.

02

Digital

Software, websites, tools, interfaces, and digital experiences built around useful ideas.

03

Media

Videos, films, visual projects, and other forms of media created to communicate ideas and experiences.

04

Experiments

Concepts that are still becoming something — prototypes, experiments, and ideas without a final category.

04 Philosophy

The goal isn't to make more things. It's to make things worth making.

We try to begin with the reason something should exist rather than the technology that could be used to build it.

That means keeping an idea simple when it can be simple, exploring complexity when complexity is useful, and questioning both when neither serves the result.

We would rather make a small thing that is genuinely useful than a large thing that exists only because it can.

05 How we create

Ideas become real through making.

01

Explore

Start with the idea. Understand the problem, question the assumptions, and explore what might be possible.

02

Build

Turn the idea into something tangible. A prototype, a product, a piece of software, or something else entirely.

03

Learn

Reality is better at answering questions than assumptions are. We use what we learn to improve the idea.

04

Refine

Keep what works, remove what doesn't, and allow the final result to become different from the original idea.

06 The name

open Maris is intentionally difficult to put inside a box.

"Maris" comes from Latin, meaning "of the sea."

The sea is vast, constantly moving, and difficult to define by a single shape. It can be calm or unpredictable, familiar or unexplored.

That idea reflects what we want open Maris to be: broad enough for different ideas, open enough for unexpected directions, and always moving toward something new.

Founder & CEO

Nadif
Muhtasin.

open Maris was founded and is led by Nadif Muhtasin.

The company began as a personal pursuit of making things without being restricted to a particular medium or industry.

As CEO, Nadif leads the direction of open Maris and works across its projects, from early concepts and experimentation to design, development, and execution.

The role is intentionally broad. open Maris is still growing, and the company is built through direct involvement in the things it creates.

07 What's next

There is no final category.

open Maris will change as the ideas behind it change.

New projects may introduce new mediums, new technologies, and entirely new directions. Some will become products. Some will remain experiments. Some may lead somewhere unexpected.

We are not trying to predict all of that. We are building a place that can accommodate it.

open Maris

One idea can become many things.

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