THE WORKSHOP JOURNAL

One entry a day from the studio in Austin: what we made, what we got wrong, and who helped.

  • The jetty at low tide, seventeen residents and twelve things to move.

    Saturday, October 17, 2026

    A jetty cut from old plates

    The Tide Pool's creatures are now cut from 19th-century engravings, and the library becomes all animals.

  • Redline's first circuit on an open Duo, the outer ring measured against the screen.

    Friday, October 16, 2026

    A report we needed

    A tester finds Floating Ink slowing down after many drops, which we'd never have found ourselves.

  • A Floating Ink dish: ink rings on water.

    Thursday, October 15, 2026

    Sunset on the wrist

    Freetail's widget learns when the bats will fly, and our pages get read against the code.

  • Candy Crawl, from a clip of the self-playing demo: the witch walks, the ghost drifts.

    Wednesday, October 14, 2026

    Cut paper, and a witch who walks

    Every Bestiary insect becomes a Cricut cut file, and Candy Crawl's trailer finally shows someone playing.

  • The Bestiary's icon: a cloisonné beetle on plum velvet.

    Tuesday, October 13, 2026

    A beetle brooch

    The Bestiary gets its icon, and the website finally looks right on a phone.

  • The Bestiary open on a Duo. The slider at the bottom is what the hinge is about to replace.

    Monday, October 12, 2026

    The hinge is the spine

    On the iPhone Duo, the Bestiary's book finally folds where the phone does.

  • The first Tide Pool jetty on a device. The fish still look like they are wearing tartan.

    Sunday, October 11, 2026

    Three new faces

    Three apps get icons that look made by hand, and the Tide Pool's first jetty goes out with the tide.

  • Waypoint's trail, with the carved-wood buttons that replaced the system ones.

    Saturday, October 10, 2026

    The hiker gets a signpost

    Waypoint trades its stock buttons for carved wood, and the paper insects stop walking through each other.

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