WORK · BUILT IN THE OPEN

Work that keeps
looking.

Every project below is live, linked and described from its own record — what it is for, what it decided, and where it stops. No roadmaps dressed as releases.

Four projects, in depth.

CASE STUDIES ON THEIR OWN PAGES

ENGINEERING CASE STUDY · FRAMEWORK-FREE CANVAS IVDNI — Building a Local-First Design Workspace An evidence-backed engineering record: one mutation authority between every gesture and the document, transaction-safe undo/redo, and AI behind a guarded execution boundary — with the limits written down. Read the case study

MixMatter result: an aerial dancer in pink silk against a red sun, black paper sky and lanterns

OPEN-SOURCE SKILL · PHOTOGRAPHY IN, ART DIRECTION OUT MixMatter Keeps what makes a photograph recognizable, rebuilds the rest through crop, flat fields, halftone and torn-paper collage. Nine published before/after comparisons. Open the product

Dark projection-room graphic with filmstrip sprocket rails and the words Cinematic Poetry

TEXT ARCHIVE · 207 PROMPTS · 129 COLOR DNA · NO VIDEO Cinematic Poetry Original cinematic generation prompts published verbatim on their own pages, each with the color evidence written into its text. Enter the archive

CITY SERIES · SEVEN OPEN CHAPTERS Be a Viewer Beijing, Shanghai, Xi’an, Xiamen, Hangzhou, Shenzhen and Chongqing — each with its own visual voice, a shared archival spine, and photography captioned as it was shot. Enter the cities

The rest of the desk.

SMALLER, STILL REAL

Decisions behind the surface.

CASE NOTES

EDITORIAL SYSTEM · 2026

One magazine, several ways of seeing.

The site had to hold essays, city records, moving image and printed editions without forcing every format into the same page. The shared masthead, one content graph and per-family art direction do that work now.

Intent: Make a mixed personal practice legible as one publication.
Role: Research, writing, art direction, interface design and implementation.
Result: A public archive with stable routes, seven open city records and fourteen essays.

Open the live system

CITY ARCHIVE · 2026

Let each city keep its weather.

Beijing, Shanghai, Xi’an, Xiamen, Hangzhou, Shenzhen and Chongqing use different color, pacing and image logic. Their shared chapter structure, literary spreads and return paths make the series readable as one body of work.

Intent: Record cities without flattening them into a tourism template.
Material: Photography, film, literature, field captions and editorial editions.
Decision: Consistency lives in structure; atmosphere remains city-specific.

Enter the city archive

DATA READING · 2026

Read the gap between headline and household.

The data desk places growth beside household pressure, employment, property, local finance and outside institutional readings. Charts appear where comparison helps; source notes remain attached to every claim.

Intent: Show what one national number cannot explain on its own.
Method: Source comparison, editorial synthesis, chart design and responsive longform.
Rule: Every visual must advance the reading or leave the page.

Open the data desk

FILM ARCHIVE · 2026

Publish the text before the film exists.

Cinematic Poetry publishes 207 original prompts verbatim with their Color DNA — and says plainly that no video is published. Honesty about what an archive holds turned out to be its own design problem.

Intent: Make prompt-writing visible as creative work.
Rule: Never imply a screening room before there is a film.
Result: 207 pages generated from one catalog, hash-verified on every release.

Open the archive