Signal & Noise

Design exploration

Series 01

Thirty-four works in two volumes. Volume 01 is the graphic system and Volume 02 turns the same digital manipulations on landscapes.

Volume 01

Ten posters, one sheet of marks, five seamless patterns, five applied pieces and four loops. Each one is a small rule drawn to a fixed recipe, so any sheet can be explained and redrawn.

Posters

Derez

Derez

Ordered-dither landscape: fractal noise pushed through a Bayer matrix into five inks.

Slipstream

Slipstream

Op-art stripes bent by a gaussian bulge and noise, counterchanged across three bands.

Bitstream

Bitstream

A 40×50 glyph grid: noise picks the character, concentric rings pick the ink.

Flare

Flare

Smeared thermal field: displaced noise mapped through a 7-stop heat ramp, screened as Benday dots.

Overprint

Overprint

Eleven torn paper shapes overprinted in four riso inks with deliberate misregistration.

Pulsar

Pulsar

Radial burst: 26 rays XOR 9 wobbling rings, flipping palette past a radius.

Quadrant

Quadrant

Random 24×24 pixel seed mirrored four ways into a single emblem.

Isoline 081

Isoline 081

Thirty-four isolines through a fractal heightfield, banded in four tints.

Dropout

Dropout

Television snow with horizontal tears and chroma split, type cut out in magenta.

Lumen

Lumen

A halftone portrait of four light sources, screened at 22°.

Marks

Sixteen Marks

Sixteen Marks

Sixteen emblems from one rule-set of six primitives: sliced circle, stepped bars, quarter-quads, starburst, mirrored pixel glyph, cut target.

Patterns

Sawtooth

Sawtooth

Seamless zigzag repeat: 12 peaks × 20 bands, four inks. Tiles edge to edge.

Interlace

Interlace

Basket-weave repeat: alternating four-stripe ribbons, 12×12 tile.

XOR

XOR

Checkerboard XOR circles: every dot inverts the square it sits in. 8×8 seamless tile.

Circuit

Circuit

Random slash and backslash maze in monospace: the classic 10 PRINT rule as wallpaper.

Dither Ramp

Dither Ramp

Four-ink Bayer gradient swatch, the texture used across the poster series.

Applied

Fly-Poster Wall

Fly-Poster Wall

The ten posters wheat-pasted as a street run, lit from top-left.

Gallery Pair

Gallery Pair

Flare and Pulsar framed as a giclée pair.

Quadrant — App

Quadrant — App

Quadrant as a live-seed generator app: reroll the emblem, read its recipe.

XOR Tote

XOR Tote

The XOR pattern as an all-over tote print.

Signal & Noise Zine

Signal & Noise Zine

Bitstream and Overprint as a riso zine spread.

Motion

Slipstream — Loop

Stripes flow through the bulge, 4-second seamless loop.

Pulsar — Loop

Rays rotate against pulsing rings, seamless loop.

Derez — Tide

A wave rolls through the Bayer-dithered field.

Quadrant — Reroll

The Quadrant generator rerolling six seeds a second.

Volume 02

Six landscapes from one rule: ridges built from 1D fractal noise, mirrored into water, then ordered-dithered on a fixed 8px grid in lime, violet and black. Quieter, and made of the same arithmetic.

Posters

Horizon

Horizon

Tarn

Tarn

Headland

Headland

Treeline

Treeline

Massif

Massif

Estuary

Estuary

Applied

Horizon — Plywood Wall

Horizon — Plywood Wall

Horizon hung on a plywood wall in low window light.

Tarn / Treeline / Massif

Tarn / Treeline / Massif

Three Volume 02 prints hung as a triptych.

Motion

Treeline — Water

The lake moving: ripples and glint lines cycle through the reflection, dithered live.