[01]
Reading deep time
A preloader thermal field, a split-type headline and a living shader behind the wordmark. The menu opens on a flood of Klein blue.
Next.js · WebGL · GSAP[014]BRANDING · WEBSITE · WEBGL · MOTION[INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL MORPHOLOGIES AUSTRALIA]
IGMA
stone is a slow animation.
Branding. Interactive website. Motion. Merchandise.
IGMA is a speculative science and digital-arts institute that studies the architecture rock builds for itself, starting with the honeycomb tafoni of the Sydney coast. We built its identity from a section cut through a single cavity, and a website that lets you scan, slice, heat and erode the stone in real time.
You are
the weather.
Move the cursor and the rock erodes. The whole site is one argument: deep time is easier to feel than to read. Every section is an instrument, not a page.
[02]
Tafoni, sliced live
A real-time 3D cavity of Sydney sandstone. Scroll moves a clipping plane through its core; the cursor heats and weathers the surface.
Three.js · custom GLSL[03]
Formations under study
Nine field sites in one typographic index. A photo trails the cursor on lagging springs while the row floods with colour.
GSAP quickTo · ScrollTrigger[04]
A quarter of a million years in one scroll
A pinned timeline where the thermal field erodes as you move, from −250,000 to the present.
Pinned scrub · canvas[05]
Tafoni Roll
A physics arcade on the same procedural rock generator as the research pages. Learning disguised as play.
Three.js · physics
The identity
[02 / IDENTITY]The mark is a section through one tafoni cavity: seven nested isolines, each a surface the rock once had, traced from photogrammetry and simplified into a signature. It is filled with a six-stop thermal gradient that never sits still — on screen it breathes, in print it is caught mid-weather. The wordmark is set in Chrones, a condensed display face, so the name reads like a label on a specimen drawer.
KLEIN BLUECITRICAQUAMARINEFUCHSIATANGERINEBLACK
Out in the field
[03 / IN THE HAND]
Credits
[04 / WHO MADE IT]SELF-INITIATED PROJECT — INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL MORPHOLOGIES AUSTRALIA (SPECULATIVE). DESIGNED AND BUILT BY THE DECOR HUB.™