Tools + experiments

Apps, tools,and resources.

Beyond the prototype: finished creative tools, free for anyone to use.

01Image Color ClustererOpen +Close −

What does an album cover look like when you sort it by color? Rearrange an image’s pixels to reveal its palette and proportions, then turn that deconstruction into something new.

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Image Color Clusterer showing an image rearranged into bands of color on a desktop display.
02FormalistOpen +Close −

A starting point for the blank-canvas days. Formalist combines the elements and principles of graphic design into prompts, constraints, and exercises that give you something to work with.

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Formalist displaying a generated billboard design brief and adjustable design constraints.
03Golden Grid GeneratorOpen +Close −

Generate a grid to build on, or make the grid the design. Explore color, structure, and complexity through compositions inspired by Swiss design, deconstruction, and Felipe Pantone.

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Golden Grid Generator showing a geometric composition in blue, yellow, pink, black, and white.
04Tetris Art GeneratorOpen +Close −

Familiar Tetris shapes, a fixed canvas, and a different set of rules. Generate playful compositions with symmetry, asymmetry, and blocks that can overlap or keep their distance.

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Tetris Art Generator with a colorful arrangement of interlocking blocks and palette controls.
05Oblique StrategiesOpen +Close −

A focused digital remake of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies. Press the spacebar for a new card and an unexpected way to approach whatever has you stuck.

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Oblique Strategies displaying a single creative prompt in yellow on a blue screen.
06NOISERzzzOpen +Close −

Kill the quiet. Ambient soundscapes for focus, sleep, and masking distractions, with modulation, recording, and export tools for making sounds of your own.

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Three mobile views of NOISERzzz showing a sound library, track playback, and mixing controls.
07TUBESOpen +Close −

Art for your big screen. Stream the LOW RES catalog through abstract visualizers inspired by the early MP3-player era, with selectable visuals and color palettes.

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TUBES playing music alongside an abstract purple and cyan visualizer on a widescreen display.