The Frameshift Lab

When I'm not building systems for clients, I push into territory where conventional formats simply break down. I refuse to accept templates. The discoveries I make here are published in leading scientific journals or included in permanent museum collections. This is where the thinking happens that makes the client work possible.

Essays & thinking

Essays on why conventional forms fail, and what happens when you start from scratch instead. Here, I explore the foundations of Visual Systems Design and dissect the gap between passive capability and genuine transformational impact.

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Published explorations

Boundary-pushing visual explorations that break the conventions of scientific and expert communication. Published by the world's leading institutes, researchers, and journals as the ultimate proof of extreme complexity translated to a human scale.

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Trillions of Trees
Nature Magazine cover

Forest density visualization.

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On Time Every Time
Ars Electronica (permanent collection)

Generative simulation of Dutch train traffic; the map itself deforms based on travel time.

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Eclipse Spiral
Scientific American

A chronographic visualization of historical and future solar eclipses.

Lab note: The spiral, showing 3000+ solar eclipses, breaks with the decades old tradition of showing about 50 eclipses in tabular form. This approach now part of the scientific eclipse visualization canon.

Prototypes

Interactive experiments built from a blank slate. Here I test ideas that don't fit anywhere else — rapid builds to find out whether a concept actually works before it reaches a client.

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Parallel Lives

Radically rethinking a timeline of historical people.

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3D Spirograph

An exploration into the aesthetic beauty of randomly generated 3D spirographs.

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Prototype Gamma

Deconstructing the flow of global commodities.

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Speculative systems

Design explorations for systems that don't yet exist — but should. Design explorations for systems that don't yet exist — but should.

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Seeds

A running collection of 400+ unformed ideas, provocative questions, and parameter discoveries in progress.

  • Can we map emotion using temperature gradients?
  • The fractal nature of organizational hierarchy.
  • Visualizing silence in musical scores.