Ideas from the studio / 001

Field Notes

What we learn while designing independent software: layout engines, private-by-default tools, and the stubborn details between an idea and a useful product.

The web solved automatic masonry. Why haven’t photobooks?

Browsers have flowed uneven content into balanced grids for years. Printed albums still ask people to drag every photograph into a box. The missing piece isn’t layout—it’s judgement.

  • Automatic layout
  • Computational design
  • PhotoBooks