The Lab is where ideas are explored outside of client work.
Some experiments become products. Some influence later projects. Others simply exist because building interesting things is part of the practice.
A digital toy about goldfish that leave your tank, swim into strangers' tanks around the world, carry messages, eat the local food and send you postcards. Most of them come home with a story. Drawn on a tiny grey-green LCD in the spirit of the handheld games of the 90s, and first sketched in 1996.
Toy · Social · Pixel art
Visit →A party game for phones about British politeness at the mouth of an industrial mincer. One QR code, up to sixteen players, no app and no sign-up. Hold to walk away from the machine, let go to jump, and land on somebody else to shove them in ahead of you. Last one un-minced wins.
Games · Multiplayer · Real-time
Visit →A browser-based science fiction trading game exploring narrative systems, economic simulation, lost radio transmissions, and collaborative storytelling.
Games · Narrative systems · World building
Visit →A simple tool that sends a daily email summarising upcoming events and commitments. Built initially to solve a personal problem - and now something relied on every day.
Product · Personal tools
Visit →An experimental iPhone app, which used the weather at your precise location to find a Pantone© colour based on Temperature, Humidity, and Precipitation.
Product · Mobile App
A motivational mobile app to help people track the exact years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds since quitting - Whatever it was.
Product · Mobile App
A small physical device built with Raspberry Pi that listens for music and displays lo-fi album artwork on a 64×64 LED matrix.
Hardware · Music · Experiment
An experimental spatial audio system designed for interactive environments, mapping musical layers to directional navigation.
Audio systems · Games
Experiments in visualising narrative structures - helping writers explore relationships between characters, locations and story arcs.
Creative tools · Story systems
Small prototypes exploring how complex datasets can be presented clearly through thoughtful interface design.
Data · Interface design
Occasional visual experiments exploring motion, illustration and playful graphic systems.
Visual experiments
If you're exploring something unusual, experimental, or simply ambitious, we'd always enjoy hearing about it.