A living index of capability

25 studies for the web.

A collection of one-off websites, each made around a particular visual technique, interaction, and point of view. Every project is a complete small world.

In series order, 01–25
25 studies shown

Screenshot of Hollis & Vane — Mechanical Orreries

Hollis & Vane — Mechanical Orreries

Interactive WebGL orrery with nested inclined planetary rings.

Hollis & Vane builds hand-finished mechanical orreries to order for private libraries, observatories, and homes.

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Screenshot of SPUR — Monthly riso print club

SPUR — Monthly riso print club

Two-colour risograph halftones with intentional misregistration.

SPUR is a small risograph zine press in Oslo running a monthly print club for stubborn paper people.

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Screenshot of HALIDE — Trailer sound, under pressure

HALIDE — Trailer sound, under pressure

Cursor-distorted raymarched chrome metaballs.

HALIDE is a sound design studio making the pressure, impact, and identity of film trailers.

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Screenshot of Basel Signal — Poster Archive

Basel Signal — Poster Archive

Scroll-locked typography on a persistent twelve-column grid.

Basel Signal is a close-reading archive of International Typographic Style posters made in and around Basel between 1957 and 1978.

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Screenshot of The Quiet Herbarium — a private collection of pressed medicinal plants

The Quiet Herbarium — a private collection of pressed medicinal plants

Five-depth botanical SVG parallax and self-drawing linework.

The Quiet Herbarium is a private collection of pressed medicinal plants, field notes, and careful remedies.

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Screenshot of NULLPORT // Data Recovery Bureau

NULLPORT // Data Recovery Bureau

Typed CRT command terminal with scanlines and barrel distortion.

NULLPORT is an active 1980s data-recovery bureau preserving damaged records for those who still need the truth.

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Screenshot of ETERNAL DEPARTMENT — Open Forever

ETERNAL DEPARTMENT — Open Forever

Scroll-led three.js atrium with a mirrored floor.

ETERNAL DEPARTMENT is the mall that never closed: a nocturnal catalogue of atriums, kiosks, and after-hours rituals.

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Screenshot of Mør Fjord — hold the light longer

Mør Fjord — hold the light longer

Stacked SVG paper-cut landscape with scroll-separated layers.

Mør Fjord Tourist Board offers a slow, practical introduction to an imagined Norwegian fjord for walkers, swimmers, and people who prefer weather to schedules.

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Screenshot of The Ledger of Small Weather — Alder Vale Rainfall Archive

The Ledger of Small Weather — Alder Vale Rainfall Archive

Rainfall data rebuilding a cathedral in canvas.

The Ledger of Small Weather is a living visual archive of forty years of rainfall in Alder Vale.

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Screenshot of UNIT 7 — ground-level performance

UNIT 7 — ground-level performance

Concrete-noise anti-design and a deliberately broken grid.

UNIT 7 is a raw-concrete performance space in the former municipal car park: live work, exposed acoustics, and one orange route below street level.

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Screenshot of Nimbus — sleep, in its own time

Nimbus — sleep, in its own time

Drifting aurora canvas behind frosted glass panels.

Nimbus turns nights of sleep into gentle, useful mornings with a bedside sensor and thoughtful reports.

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Screenshot of Kanazawa Wave Press — hand-printed ukiyo-e

Kanazawa Wave Press — hand-printed ukiyo-e

Animated SVG waves printed over washi texture.

Kanazawa Wave Press is a fifth-generation woodblock studio making hand-printed ukiyo-e editions in Kanazawa, Japan.

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Screenshot of Alley 9 — noodles, records, after dark

Alley 9 — noodles, records, after dark

Canvas rain, flickering neon, wet reflection.

Alley 9 — a late-night noodle bar and record shop tucked behind Hammersmith's last train.

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Screenshot of Kunsthalle Nedre — one work, one room

Kunsthalle Nedre — one work, one room

Cursor caption and a composition made from restraint.

Kunsthalle Nedre is a one-room gallery in Oslo, showing Ida Løken’s A Room That Listens—one work at a time.

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Screenshot of Halcyon Film Lab — Hand-developed 35mm in Oslo

Halcyon Film Lab — Hand-developed 35mm in Oslo

A horizontally advancing film strip with generated grain.

Halcyon Film Lab has hand-developed 35mm film with patient chemistry and honest scans since 1994.

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Screenshot of The Slow Survey — Black Fell Moor

The Slow Survey — Black Fell Moor

Live marching-squares contours over evolving terrain.

The Slow Survey: ten years of walking, measuring, and drawing one upland moor by hand.

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Screenshot of Werkraum — A design school for curious children

Werkraum — A design school for curious children

CSS-transformed primary shapes choreographed into forms.

Werkraum is an Oslo design school where children build big ideas from circles, squares, triangles, paper, wood and conversation.

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Screenshot of Abyssal Station 12 — Living light at 3,800 m

Abyssal Station 12 — Living light at 3,800 m

Cursor-lit bioluminescent particle field and bezier creatures.

Abyssal Station 12 is a research post listening for living light at 3,800 metres below the North Atlantic.

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Screenshot of The Meridian Post — Vol. 1, No. 1

The Meridian Post — Vol. 1, No. 1

Typeset CSS broadsheet with working jump lines.

The Meridian Post, Volume 1 Number 1 — a daily record for the river city of Meridian, Tuesday 28 July 2026.

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Screenshot of Blob & Co. — One soft object per year

Blob & Co. — One soft object per year

Grabbable three.js clay forms with springy squash and stretch.

Blob & Co. makes one soft object each year, shaped slowly for hands that like to fidget.

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Screenshot of Ambrose Engineering — Patent Drawings for Machines Never Built

Ambrose Engineering — Patent Drawings for Machines Never Built

Exploded blueprint components and self-drawing dimensions.

Ambrose Engineering preserves patent drawings, marginalia, and moving blueprints for machines that never made it past the page.

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Screenshot of understory — soil research collective

understory — soil research collective

Growing canvas hyphae built from branching L-system rules.

Understory is a soil research collective tracing the living networks beneath working landscapes.

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Screenshot of CABINET — Bellwether arcade archive

CABINET — Bellwether arcade archive

Pixelated canvas cabinet with a playable 8-bit interaction.

CABINET preserves the one-off arcade machines built, played, and lost in Bellwether, Iowa.

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Screenshot of Maison Aubry — silk in motion

Maison Aubry — silk in motion

Responsive three.js ribbon geometry and iridescent weave.

Maison Aubry is a Lyon silk atelier making luminous, hand-finished lengths for bodies, rooms and rituals.

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Screenshot of Verdance Commons — Power, grown together

Verdance Commons — Power, grown together

Growing Art Nouveau SVG tendrils with animated light.

Verdance Commons is a working neighbourhood atrium where residents grow, share, and steward their own clean power.

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