A torn sheet of white paper being sewn back together with orange thread

Serious about making things.

Design and engineering bureau, Copenhagen. Identity, digital products, software and physical objects.

Selected work

01–07

North Propulsion

Brand & design system

Identity, art direction, print and digital.

North Propulsion orange emblem on a black business card — Identity

Orange and black North Propulsion hardware from the design manual — Art direction

The mark / Original artwork

An identity with somewhere to go.

A visual identity for a space technology company. Symbol, typography, colour and material, brought together across print and digital.

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North Propulsion hardware in a Nordic forest, from the design manual — A world for the machine

Identity & art directionNext 02 gaps

gaps

Product design & software

Edits the pacing of recorded speech.

gaps single-file editor with waveform, words, pace, pitch and intensity lanes — Single editor

Fixes the timing.

A speech editor for pacing — pauses, pace and articulation, measured from the recording. Works with Pro Tools and Adobe Audition.

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gaps multi-file editor with clips arranged in a waterfall timeline — Multi editor

ShippedNext 03 Duet DS

Duet DS

Design systems & web components

A shared foundation for digital products.

Duet published design-system presentation — The system / LocalTapiola & Turva

One system for both brands.

Reusable web components and common foundations for LocalTapiola and Turva. One design system supporting two distinct brands.

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Contact and delivery form template on the published Duet DS site — Form template / Published example, duetds.com

System imagery: LocalTapiola / TurvaNext 04 DR / Typography

DR / Typography

Typeface initiative & early design

The idea, first draft and case for a shared typeface.

Published DR Publik typeface presentation by DR Design and Overtone — DR Publik / Published typeface presentation

One voice. Across platforms.

Our contribution began with the typeface initiative and first draft. The finished DR Publik family shown here was developed by DR Design and Overtone.

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Character details from the published DR Publik specimen — Character details / Published specimen

Published specimens: DR / OvertoneNext 05 MedTrace / aQuant

MedTrace / aQuant

Software engineering

Complex imaging software, built end to end.

aQuant / Image: MedTrace

Make complex data legible.

PET analysis, image review and reporting in a structured workflow for heavy clinical data.

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Visual review / Image: MedTrace

Product imagery: MedTraceNext 06 IKEA / 3D Banken

IKEA / 3D Banken

Digital product & software

Product discovery, asset workflows and 3D inspection.

Product discovery / Original screenshot

From catalogue to close inspection.

A catalogue with 3D inspection. Click an item to view its data and associated assets.

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IKEA 3D Banken wireframe inspection view — 3D inspection / Original screenshot

Collaborative project / Original screenshotsNext 07 Dynamic Identity

Dynamic Identity

Identity system & generative software

Drawn by a seeded program.

A generative zigzag stitch mark, one generation, its tail left hanging past the square — The mark / Live generation

The mark changes with every render.

A seeded program generates a zigzag stitch that varies every time and can always be repeated from its seed.

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Favicon check / 128–16px

Design and engineering: Threads, in-houseFull project index

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SU-1suspenders

Your agent fleet, with suspenders.

A SQLite control plane for multi-agent Claude Code fleets: capability-aware dispatch, zombie detection, decisions with LLM recommendations, and a live fleet board.

Shipped, BSL 1.1.

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Black leather suspenders on a light background — the namesake

TABI split-toe shoes in green on a gum sole

TB-2TABI

One toe apart.

Project T reworks the split-toe shoe as an everyday product. A separate big-toe pocket, a slim sole and carefully placed panels define the silhouette, and the collection runs on into colour and pattern.

Project T, 2010.

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FlexLamp lit against a dark ground, steel loop base and red cable

FL-1FlexLamp

Off, it droops. On, it stands.

An upright halogen lamp with a Flexinol spring. Switched off, the glowing upper section hangs its head. Switched on, it straightens and goes rigid. The cable has exactly the diameter of the tubing, so the line simply carries on in another material.

Original collection.

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FlexLamp on a pale plywood table in natural window light

Oval birch-panel hojtaler standing in a living room

HT-4hojtaler

A sheet of birch that plays.

Three millimetres of birch plywood, driven from behind by two surface exciters, so the panel itself is the speaker and the room is part of the instrument. Spotify Connect, AirPlay 2, Bluetooth and Snapcast, with room grouping and tuning built in.

In production.

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hojtaler seen edge on, showing how thin the panel is

byThreads leather shoulder bag and strap, close up

BT-3byThreads

Sewn to be used.

Leather cases, hand-knotted bags and protective wraps. Simple access, minimal hardware. Designed in Copenhagen, made in Vietnam.

Original collection.

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Original byThreads Shouldercase worn over the shoulder

The ImageScaler montage demo: source images composed into 2×2 grids and strips server-side

IS-1ImageScaler

One URL in. Every format out.

Self-hosted image service for product imagery at scale: signed transforms to WebP, AVIF and HEIC, server-side montage, and a 3D lane for USD, MaterialX and OCIO LUTs — with CDN proxying and load balancing in front.

In production.

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