Tools + experiments

Independent / 01—07

Apps, tools,
and resources.

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

These are creative and lifestyle tools I built independently and share freely with the world. They range from JavaScript to Swift, each one made to be useful, playful, and open to anyone. I believe independent tools like these are where the true soul of the internet lives.

Image / Color

01

Image Color Clusterer

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.

Image Color Clusterer showing an image rearranged into bands of color on a desktop display.

Design / Practice

02

Formalist

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.

Formalist displaying a generated billboard design brief and adjustable design constraints.

Composition / Generative art

03

Golden Grid Generator

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.

desktop only

Golden Grid Generator showing a geometric composition in blue, yellow, pink, black, and white.

Pattern / Generative art

04

Tetris Art Generator

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.

Tetris Art Generator with a colorful arrangement of interlocking blocks and palette controls.

Ideas / Creative process

05

Oblique Strategies

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.

Oblique Strategies displaying a single creative prompt in yellow on a blue screen.

iPhone / Ambient sound design

06

NOISERzzz

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

Three mobile views of NOISERzzz showing a sound library, track playback, and mixing controls.

Apple TV / Music visualization

07

TUBES

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.

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