Things I'm trying out. Some are bits of code you can poke at, some are pictures still being worked on. None of it is finished, which is the point.
Experiment Roasted Garlic Herb Hazelnuts Option A – Fireworks A bag of hazelnuts with no label on it. Sweep along the shelf and the label goes up in fireworks, one Illustrator layer at a time: the photo, the orange bands, then the type. Oct 24, 2026
Experiment Roasted Garlic Herb Hazelnuts Option B – Fireworks The second of three label concepts. Sweep along the shelf and the label goes up in fireworks, one Illustrator layer at a time: a swarm of teal dots, then the bands and the hazelnut, then the type. Oct 24, 2026
Experiment Roasted Garlic Herb Hazelnuts Option C – Fireworks The third of three label concepts, and the plainest-spoken: a black panel scattered with hazelnuts, garlic and herbs. Sweep along the shelf and it goes up in fireworks, one Illustrator layer at a time. Oct 24, 2026
Experiment Samurai Fireworks Jeff Johnson's samurai, packed into nine little knots of ink on a line. Push them along and they go up like fireworks, each one bursting into a piece of him. Oct 24, 2026
Experiment Six Ways to Open a Panel The Xmas Gift Tour comic, with buttons: six different ways for a scene to come into being under your finger, from a blue-pencil rough to a printing press. Oct 22, 2026
Experiment Xmas Gift Tour Three holiday paintings I made for my family, folded into one long line and unrolled as a single trip, with talk balloons, whispers and a bicycle bell. Oct 22, 2026
Experiment Story Strip What if a whole comic book lay folded into one long line, and you read it by rubbing the story up out of it, one panel at a time? Oct 21, 2026
Experiment Samurai Emerges Jeff Johnson's samurai, folded down into one flat line. Rub the line and he gets up, a slice at a time. Oct 21, 2026
Experiment Spiral Poem A coil of line with a sentence wound up inside it. Trace it from the outside in and the words stand up. Oct 21, 2026
Experiment Line to Signature A plain line with my signature hiding inside it. Rub it and the letters come up, a patch at a time. Oct 21, 2026
Experiment Phil, in Four Inks A portrait of my friend Phil, built like a printed page from four sheets of colored squares. Turn the stack and pull the sheets apart. Oct 20, 2026
Experiment Phil, Out of Register Be the bad press. Each of Phil's four ink sheets rides its own spring, so a thumb or a shake peels the colors apart. Oct 20, 2026
Experiment Phil, Hand-Colored Phil starts out in black and white. Drag through him to bring the color back, or repaint him a square at a time. Oct 20, 2026
Experiment Samurai in Motion A samurai drawn by my friend Jeff Johnson, whose ink you can push, blow and rub away. Oct 19, 2026
Component Jelly Curves A button with a skin that wobbles toward your pointer, and four ways of drawing that skin. Oct 19, 2026