Objects

01 Print object

Cup and saucer

A porcelain cup of coffee on its saucer, the glaze in your accent. Click it to stir.

Leads: A tableware maker with no photographs
As a print: A software card about a morning
GPU: High while it turns, one frame at rest

Morning digest

One email at 8:00 with everything that changed overnight.

02 Print object

Bicycle wheel

A road wheel with a tan-wall tyre, an alloy rim and 24 spokes, the hub in your accent. Click it to spin it up.

Leads: A maker of wheels or hubs, never a whole bike
As a print: A card about speed or a mechanism
GPU: High while it turns, one frame at rest

Background sync

Runs every five minutes, whether the app is open or not.

03 Print object

Desk lamp

A balanced-arm desk lamp on chrome springs, the base and shade enamelled in your accent. Click it to switch it on.

Leads: A lighting maker with no photographs
As a print: A card about focus or working late
GPU: High while it moves, one frame at rest

Focus mode

Alerts wait until you switch it off.

04 Print object

Desk globe

A desk globe with the real coastlines, a brass meridian and a walnut stand. Its sea takes a blue or teal accent. Click it to spin.

Leads: A maker of globes or maps
As a print: A card about regions or shipping
GPU: High while it turns, one frame at rest

14 regions

Pick where your data lives. Move it later in two clicks.

05 Print object

Playing cards

A stack of playing cards, the ace of diamonds face up and the backs in your accent. Click to fan them out.

Leads: A maker of card or board games
As a print: A games card about a hand or a deal
GPU: High while it moves, one frame at rest

Fair draws

Every shuffle is logged, so any player can check a deal.

06 Photo print

Halftone photograph

One photograph in one ink: round dots on a 45° screen, clean paper in the light. Point at it and a loupe shows its colour.

Use: One photograph band on a design or software page
Never: A hero photograph, a cafe, a guesthouse
GPU: Low, one context, still at rest

Screens for print

Send any photograph to press as a one-ink halftone.

07 Photo print

Engraved photograph

Diagonal lines that swell in the shadows and bend over the forms, over a light wash of the photograph's colour. Point at it and the lines part.

Use: A tile whose subject is the photograph
Never: A hero photograph, a cafe, a guesthouse
GPU: Low, one context, still at rest

Line art from a photo

Turn a product shot into a plate for packaging.

08 Photo print

Dithered photograph

A three-colour grain from the photograph's deepest and most colourful tones. Point at it and the photograph develops through the grain.

Use: A games or AI page's one photograph
Never: A hero photograph, a cafe, a guesthouse
GPU: Low, one context, still at rest

Three colours, any picture

A grain that keeps a photograph readable in two inks and the paper.

09 Scene

Split reveal

One photograph, half of it printed as a halftone screen. The line follows the pointer; on a phone it follows a drag.

Use: A photo or design app, a device, a game's key art
Never: A place, a service, a product page
GPU: Low, drawn only while the line moves

Before and after

Drag the line to compare the print with the original.

10 Scene

Dither sequence

Two to six photographs that belong together, dithered and cut one to the next like a slow film. Move across it to pick a frame.

Use: A device from several sides, a game's scenes
Never: A random or mood set of pictures
GPU: Low, drawn only during a cut

Every version kept

Step back through earlier versions of a picture.

11 Scene

Dot object

An object cut out of its photograph and set in dots that keep its tones. Under the pointer the dots take its real colour.

Use: A thing shot on a plain ground, or a cut-out
Never: A busy or sunlit background
GPU: Low, one draw call while the loupe moves

Cut-outs in one click

The ground is read from the border and left out.

12 Scene

Exploded layers

One photograph as four printed sheets in perspective. Hover and they open apart, each named in the product's own words.

Use: Software that works in layers: imaging, maps
Never: Sheets named after the effects
GPU: Low, drawn only while it opens

Edits you can undo

Turn any layer off later without touching the rest.

13 Scene

Product turntable

A camera, a chair, a speaker or a cup, stepping round on a studio turntable. Move across it to turn it yourself.

Use: A kind of thing the software handles
Never: The client's own product
GPU: Low, drawn only while it steps

See it from every side

Check each piece from all angles before you rent it.

Objects for one strong moment a page.