PPUZZLworks

A working studio where unsolved things become solved ones.

ESTMMXXVI

Act II

What this place does.

A small atelier. Brass-trimmed. Forest-quiet. We assemble the things our friends and clients arrive carrying in halves — a hard system, a bent product, a half-told story — and we hand them back whole.

Act III

Now Showing

Selected works, recent & ongoing.

Halftone Atlas

MMXXIV — ongoing

A printed cartography system for a research collective — eighteen plates, one ledger, one bound key.

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The Quiet Despatch

MMXXIII

A monthly almanac in plain envelopes, hand-folded, mailed to two hundred subscribers in nine countries.

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Listening Post No. 7

MMXXII

An installation: a slow radio that broadcasts only at dusk, in a forest clearing, to nobody in particular.

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Act IV

The Studio

The studio is housed in a small loft above a print shop in the old quarter, where the floors creak and the windows fog. We are three people, occasionally four, working slowly and on purpose. We do not chase scale. We do not write decks. We take in things that are stuck — a product, a library, a brand, a draft — and we set them down on the workbench and we look at them for as long as it takes. We finish them. We hand them back. The work leaves the door, and we sweep up, and we put the kettle on, and we wait for the next thing to arrive.

— the workshop

Curtain Call

Bring us a problem.

The door is open. The brass is warm.

A working studio. Lights low. Brass warm. MMXXVI — under the canopy.