Wrap text around a cut-out
Isolate a subject, trace its edge, flow a headline along the silhouette.
Guides
31 walks through the studio.
Every one of them is also a performance: press Watch it in the studio and the studio builds the thing on a real sheet while you watch, narrating as it goes. Nothing it lays is stuck · it all sits on the undo trail.
THE CRAFT
Paper, ink, type and the press · what the studio makes and how.
Print real separations
Palette to Ink Plates to one film per ink · screen print or Riso ready.
A story across frames
Text frames that link, pour, and reflow · and how to cut the thread.
One motif becomes yardage
The Pattern engine and its five symmetries, retunable forever.
The pen workshop
Close a loop, sculpt its points, keep the path for later.
Stacks, Looks and the dice
Retune effects live, bottle a treatment, or let 🎲 surprise you.
The type press kit
Echo, woodtype shadow, inline, misregistered fill, loose sorts · bite, knockout and stencil · and letters that cut.
The giant glyph
One huge letter becomes a shape you sculpt · with small type running along its curve.
To press, previewed
See the sheet with its crop and registration marks, step the pages, then print or save a PDF.
One sheet, every size
Keep the sizes this work is printed in, tell each piece which edge it belongs to, and take them all out in one parcel.
A group prints as one
Dress a group rather than its pieces · one impression at half strength, one overprint, one plate through all of it · and ⌥ an eye to see a piece alone.
The plate keeps its grips
Draw a mask with the pen and come back to its anchors any time · and turn any plate into a fade with two marks you drag on the sheet.
A shape that draws itself on
Draw one hand-drawn, lay it down as marks, and let the reel write it onto the sheet like a hand.
Pour a wash inside a mark
Mark an area, pour it full of pigment with a pooled rim and the sheet’s own tooth, then pick it and change your mind.
Cut a hinge, not two halves
⚯ Joint on the blade’s bar pins the smaller piece at the seam and stands it on the larger · an arm on a shoulder on a body, read in the layer list.
THE MOTION
The reel, and everything that happens in time.
The reel writes down your hand
Switch on the record light, drag the layer while it plays, and it keeps what your hand did.
A poster that moves
Make the whole page move in one press, change one bar, then get the file out.
It draws itself
A picture paints itself on, and a headline comes apart into letters.
It goes where I draw
Draw a line with the pen, hand it to a layer, then send a row along it.
The fall · letters drop from where they stand
Gravity takes a word, or the pieces you picked · they fall, bounce and pile up on the sheet, and ⌘Z unwinds the whole thing.
The living type
The swell, the marker and the writing · a headline that breathes, gets swept and writes itself, and stays live editable type throughout.
Precision on the rail
Zoom the strip, place a bar exactly to the hundredth with the drag readout, and snap every move to the count’s beats.
Stop motion on the reel
One set of pieces, many poses · turn the flipbook on, move a piece, press ▣ Shoot, and the pose holds while the clock steps a frame.
The mark that keeps moving
Draw one stroke, press Living, and the drawing itself boils, flows, waves, drifts, glows or sparkles on the reel · without you drawing a second frame.
A shooting star
A dark sheet, a sky of small stars that twinkle, and one star that rides an arc you draw with a tail of light behind it.
Make a figure walk
Cut a drawn person into parts with ⛯ Part, tell each part what it IS, and press It walks the parts · the thighs, the knees, the arms and the head all answer each other.
✦ WATCH IT PERFORM
Press one and the studio builds it on the real sheet · everything it lays is on the undo trail.
✦ Watch · the sheet starts to move
The studio builds a poster and sets it moving · one press, then the weather. It performs; you keep the sheet.
✦ Watch · it lands on the beat
A count, moves spread across it, and swing · performed on the real rail.
✦ Watch · the plates take turns
Two inks trade places in time · the riso loop, made in front of you.
✦ Watch · the flipbook
Shoot the frame, nudge, shoot again · stop motion with the book bar.
✦ Watch · the print becomes another print
Two effects on one picture take turns owning it · the crossing, performed on the welcome plate.