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Tako Shop
E-commerce rebuild for a small-batch takoyaki vendor in Osaka. Headless Shopify, custom product configurator, three languages, and a takoyaki-shaped loading screen we are still proud of. +38% conversion in the first quarter.
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A studio for fun means a back-catalogue that's a little bit all over the place. Some shipped, some self-built, some sold out, some that didn't quite work. Thirty projects, sorted by craft, all real — even the ones we made for nobody but us.
E-commerce rebuild for a small-batch takoyaki vendor in Osaka. Headless Shopify, custom product configurator, three languages, and a takoyaki-shaped loading screen we are still proud of. +38% conversion in the first quarter.
A subscription site for a Tokyo bento studio shipping lunchboxes across the Kansai region. Custom CMS, weekly menu rotation, allergy filters, and a Stripe-backed sub flow. Designed in the back of a Shinkansen.
A portfolio site for a small Tokyo architecture firm obsessed with how light moves through a room. Big photography, slow scroll, hand-set Japanese & English type. Quiet on purpose.
A small indie label in Bangalore releasing experimental South Asian electronic music. Catalogue page, custom Bandcamp-style audio player, monthly mix series. The header is the actual waveform of their first release.
A free colour tool for designers — generate accessible palettes from a single hex, check contrast ratios against WCAG, export straight to Figma tokens. We built it for ourselves and now 4,200 designers use it a week.
A 30-second sketching app for iOS. No layers, no undo, no sharing. Just you, the canvas, a timer, and the muscle memory of your first attempt. Featured by the App Store in week two. 18K daily draws and counting.
An ambient field recorder. Long-tap to start, walk around, come back. The app mixes in whatever's playing on Spotify at the time as a 4th-layer texture. Exports stems you can drop into a DAW. Quietly our most used app.
A daily photo journal — one shot a day, no editing, no filter, no skip-days-allowed. We built it to keep ourselves honest. Then 12,000 other people joined in. Year-end book export is a real PDF you can actually print.
A pomodoro timer for people who keep falling off pomodoro timers. Locks you out of everything but your work app, hooks into Spotify to dim playlists between sprints, and yells at you in the kindest way we could figure out. Retired 2024, lives on in spirit.
A gamified to-do list that treats your tasks like a tiny operating system. You have RAM, you have storage, and finishing a thing earns you a frame to spend on a theme. Currently in private beta with 80 people who won't shut up about it.
A bedside lamp that learns your wind-down routine. ESP32, addressable LEDs, custom PCB, and an ambient light sensor. The first night we used it one of us slept 9 hours. Currently on our nightstands and a small Etsy run.
A DIY modular synth built out of 8 solenoids, a wooden box, and a borrowed Arduino. You draw patterns on paper, run them through a light sensor array, and the solenoids hit whatever's in front of them. Ate two tape recorders during testing.
A soil moisture sensor that pings a Discord channel when the fiddle leaf fig is thirsty. We open-sourced the firmware and a friend in Berlin wired hers up to water the plant on a servo. The Internet of Things, but make it a houseplant.
A persistence-of-vision LED globe. 256 RGB LEDs spinning at 1800 RPM, custom driver board, hand-soldered in three weekends. It can show any 1-bit image as a hovering sphere of light. We bring it to every party and it never stops working.
An 8-step sequencer that draws the pattern as you program it. Each step is a physical button + LED. Drag a sequence, the next one previews. Tap to clear. Open-sourced the schematic and the firmware — someone in Lisbon made a euro-rack version.
A year-long project — one Polaroid a day, every day, no editing, no skip days. 365 frames shot on a 600-series camera. The first 100 are lonely, the middle 100 are pretty, the last 100 are honestly weird. Exhibited at a small Brooklyn gallery in December.
A 36-frame roll of Tri-X walked around College Street, Park Street, and the Gariahat footbridge at 5am. Self-published as a 16-page booklet for a college zine fest. The frame of the chai stall at 6:14am still hangs above one of our desks.
What we shot during the lockdown, on whatever film we could still get our hands on. 64 frames, no plan, no theme. The book got picked up by a small art publisher in Lisbon and went into a second printing. We split the proceeds with a local kitchen.
A photo essay shot over two weeks in South Goa — fishing boats at 4am, the salt pans at noon, a beach wedding we were definitely not invited to. Self-published as a 48-page hardcover. 80 copies, all gone.
A roaming photo series of late-night food markets across Southeast Asia. Bangkok, Hanoi, Singapore, KL, Manila. Shot between 10pm and 3am, no flash, on a 35mm f/1.4. The series is ongoing — a new city every quarter.
A 4-minute music video for a friend's second album. Shot on a Sony FX3 over two weekends, one room, one camera, twelve rolls of gaff tape. Edited in DaVinci, graded with the new colour science, the music was already finished before we started.
A 12-episode YouTube series visiting the small studios of friends — a potter in Jaipur, a printmaker in Goa, a sound designer in Bangalore, a bookbinder in Shantiniketan. Each episode is 8–12 minutes, conversational, with original score.
An 8-episode series documenting the build of the POV Globe from parts on a desk to a working prototype. Real-time soldering, real-time debugging, real-time "why is this not working." Currently the highest-watched thing on our channel.
A monthly 30-minute live stream where one of us sits at the bench and just… solders something. Build, mod, fix, occasionally set on fire. 24 episodes, no editing, all the mistakes left in. It's basically radio for makers.
A 12-minute short film shot over four nights in an empty coworking space after hours. Three characters, one location, no dialogue, scored entirely on a Teenage Engineering OP-1. Currently on the festival circuit — three selections so far.
A 48-page riso-printed zine of original pixel art. Edition of 200, hand-numbered, sold out in 11 days. Half the proceeds went to a local arts collective, half went into the second run this fall. The cover print is the teal+pink FDCMix we've been chasing for years.
A bartop arcade cabinet built into an old milk crate. Raspberry Pi 4, an 8-inch LCD, a salvaged joystick, a 12-button matrix. Plays every game from 1978 to 2002. Lives in the studio kitchen. 6-year-old nephew has the high score on Street Fighter II.
A 2-player co-op browser game submitted to a 72-hour game jam. You and a friend each control half of a character on a shared screen — one handles the legs, one handles the arms. Theme was "two sides of the same story." Won 2nd place in the jam.
A 4-metre LED installation for a small bar in Salt Lake, Kolkata. 2,400 addressable LEDs behind frosted glass, sequenced to ambient music, with a hidden controls app for the bartenders. The brief was "make it feel alive after midnight." It does.
A 365-page riso calendar for 2027 — one page per day, each with a tiny piece of original pixel art and a quote. 80 of the quotes are from friends, 80 from books we've been reading, the rest we wrote at 2am. Pre-orders open in October.
That's the version we keep public. There are another dozen-or-so in a Box folder somewhere — half-finished hardware, a short film we shot and never edited, a 4-track EP from 2021, the prototype of an app we killed before launch. If you want to see the back-room shelf, just ask.