The Studio · Selected Works

Selected works.

Five engagements, each a small inquiry into a part of the interface our profession had stopped looking at. Newest first.

Q1 · 2026
Case Study

Initial™

On the gravity of beginnings.

A fourteen-week inquiry into the drop cap — the enlarged first letter of a paragraph — and what is owed to the act of beginning.

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Q4 · 2025
Case Study

Whilst™

On the dignity of waiting.

A sixteen-week inquiry into the loading indicator — three dots, in succession — and the proposition that the user, while waiting, is alive.
Q3 · 2025
Case Study

Latent™

On the typography of the not-yet.

A twelve-week inquiry into placeholder text — the greyed word inside an unfilled input field — and what is owed to the moment before the user has spoken.

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Q2 · 2025
Case Study

Caesura™

On the design of the held breath.

A sixteen-week inquiry into the horizontal rule, and the radical possibility that the eye, like the ear, deserves a place to rest.
Q1 · 2025
Case Study

Threshold™

Rethinking the act of commitment.

A fourteen-week inquiry into the rectangular interface element traditionally known as "the button," and what happens when we treat the moment of intention with the gravity it deserves.

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