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Space / software / objects
Independent practice
INDEPENDENT PRACTICE / COLOGNE, GERMANYSTUDIO / 001

Work that
holds up
to questions.

We design where the sketch stops helping: in the rules, records and decisions that a working thing has to carry.

Explore the work DESIGN + ENGINEERING / 2026
CHOOSE A COVER / HOVER, FOCUS OR TAP 01–03
View case study Wearhouse
PROTOTYPES / 202601–03 / PROJECTS
01 / SELECTED CASE STUDIES · 2026

The work, up close.

Current experiments in ownership, attention and assembly.

02 / EDITORIAL SOFTWARE / PRINT CULTURE02

Kushluk.

Four printed pages put a boundary around the morning. Read a fictional edition, revise the editorial cut, then inspect what would come off the printer.

KUSHLUK / EDITION 004A4 / 01–04
CONTENT SELECTED02THE DAY, CLEARLY
PRINT FIRST FOUR PAGES NO FEED
Concept edition; four-page publishing engine is still being built.
04–07 / IN THE MAKING

Also on the bench.

Not yet case studies. These are active questions.

04

Agent Stack

SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE

An experiment in coordinating independent AI agents and tools.

ARCHITECTURE / EARLY BUILD
05

Harmonia

SPATIAL AI RESEARCH

Exploring how language, topology and geometry might reason together.

RESEARCH / REDESIGN
06

Meridian

EVERYDAY OBJECTS

A material and identity study beginning with the everyday sock.

CONCEPT / NOT A SHOP
07

Kunstwörter

SEMANTIC DESIGN LANGUAGE

A connected German–English vocabulary of art, making and perception.

PRIVATE RESEARCH RESOURCE
08 / THE PRACTICE

Research is useful when it becomes something a person can test, keep or build upon. The medium changes; the responsibility to show your work does not.

How the practice works
Questions, collaborations, half-formed ideas

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