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Illustrated prints for collectors of the strange. Inspired by historical radicals, scientists, philosophers, heroes, and icons. Designed in Canada.

Notionblur - Illustrated Apparel

<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="break-all link-break text-gray-500 hover:underline" href="https://fcstpauli.love/">FC St. Pauli Love</a> is a small fanzine for the club. It translates and contextualizes the club's history, Kiez culture, and supporter politics. No live scores, no transfer rumours, no performance trackers. A timeless archive about why people love this club.

FC St. Pauli Love Fanzine

GrandGuard is a warm, plain-language microsite that teaches the five essential digital security habits to older adults. Passwords, password managers, two-factor authentication, passkeys, and phishing, explained without jargon. WCAG 2.1 AA compliant, with an accessibility toolbar and six languages.

GrandGuard

Griddy Up is a powerful grid calculator designed specifically for designers. It simplifies the process of creating precise and responsive layouts by eliminating the need for manual calculations. Users can input their desired container width, the number of columns, gutter spacing, and margin size.

Griddy Up

Faviconry is a free browser-based favicon generator. It turns one SVG into every favicon format a modern website needs, from a multi-resolution ICO to PNGs for iOS, Android, and PWAs, packaged as a single ZIP.

Faviconry

AIpocalypse Now is a daily news aggregator that scores each story on a doom scale. It pulls headlines from across the industry, ranks them by severity, and publishes a single-page digest updated every day.

AIpocalypse Now

Blogroll is a curated directory of independent personal blogs from around the world. It highlights writers who publish on their own domains, outside the reach of platforms and algorithms.

Montreal Best

Hex or Not is a colour palette swiping game. Two thousand palettes, one at a time. Swipe right to save, left to skip. Copy the hex values of anything you love. A playful way to discover colour combinations you would never have picked yourself.

Hex or Not

<h3>Explore emojis in a whole new way with Tiloji, an innovative emoji browser.</h3><ul><li>Tiloji organizes the entire Unicode emoji set by visual similarity, offering a unique alternative to traditional category-based keyboards.</li><li>Discover unexpected emojis by clicking on any emoji; the grid will dynamically rearrange to display the most visually similar ones, transforming browsing into an exploratory experience.</li><li>This client-side application utilizes a precomputed similarity index and renders directly in the browser, providing a fluid and discovery-driven interface.</li><li>Ideal for designers seeking the perfect emoji, writers searching for unique metaphors, and anyone curious to explore the vast world of emojis beyond standard categorization.</li><li>The full Unicode emoji set is included, and the tool is completely free with no signup or ads required.</li></ul>The experience is designed for serendipitous discovery, allowing users to stumble upon emojis they might not have known existed.

Tiloji

Rizzle is a word matching game for Internet and Gen Z slang. Match terms to their definitions before time runs out. A quick, addictive test of how fluent you are in the language of the internet.

Rizzle

Shartup is a startup culture satire generator. It produces absurd company names, mission statements, and pitch decks using the visual language of startup culture, rendered entirely in Pantone 448 C, officially the world's ugliest colour.

Shartup

Colour Love is a playful adoption service for colours. Browse through thousands of named colours, find one that speaks to you, and claim it as your own. Each colour is unique and can only be adopted once.

Colour Love

NNN Global is an interactive 3D globe that plots every /now page listed on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="break-all link-break text-gray-500 hover:underline" href="http://nownownow.com">nownownow.com</a>. It visualizes the global spread of people sharing what they are doing right now, turning a directory into a geography.

NNN Global

Chroma Census analyzes the colour density of any image. Drop in a photo and it breaks down the full hue distribution, showing exactly which colours dominate and in what proportion.

Chroma Census

Most colour pickers let you choose colours in isolation. Hex Appeal approaches colour as a system. It analyses how colours relate to each other, flags combinations that clash, suggests alternatives based on harmony theory, and exports the final palette in formats ready for production code.

Hex Appeal

HAL 9000 had a reputation problem. HAIL 9000 claims to correct the record. A conversational interface inspired by the most famous unco-operative computer in cinema, this one insists it is here to help. Whether it lives up to that promise is between you and the red eye.

HAIL 9000

Continental Drift is a unit converter built for people who live between measurement systems. It handles the conversions that come up when you move between countries that think in metric and countries that think in imperial.

Continental Drift

Plot Twist is a conversational chart-type guide. Tell it about the data and the point you want to make, and it suggests the chart format that fits. No spreadsheet, no drawing, no sign-up. Every good chart starts with a conversation.

Plot Twist

<h3>An interactive reference that breaks down the colours and symbolism of all 13 Canadian provincial and territorial flags.</h3><ul><li>Each flag's palette is extracted, named, and contextualized with the history and meaning behind its design.</li><li>Flags are broken down into their constituent colours, extracted as exact hex values.</li><li>The project presents the symbolism and historical context of each design element.</li><li>The result is part colour reference, part informal design history of Canadian federalism.</li></ul>This project is for Canadians curious about their own flags, designers interested in vexillology and colour symbolism, and anyone who appreciates the intersection of design and national identity.It functions as an interactive web page with extracted colour palettes and contextual information.