Plastic Studio

We design and develop apps, services, objects, interfaces, and the systems that connect them, guided by the reasoning behind every detail.

To us, design should not be arbitrary but the rational outcome once every other option is eliminated in comparison.

Plastic Studio is an independent design studio formed in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Our current work is a family of software, and the services around them:

Flow, a note taking app and text editor that grows into a full knowledge manager, for macOS and iOS.

Flow's sibling apps, also available as modules inside Flow, for managing tasks, finances, document and media libraries, logs, and databases.

Webface, a service that automatically and dynamically generates websites from folders of plain text, also integrated in Flow.

A set of independent micro services, also integrated in Webface.

A colour system that fixes the brightness inaccuracies persisting even in HSL and Lab, built on the intuitive red-yellow-blue scheme of reflective colour and human perception, the way designers and artists actually think. Its palette plugin, used across all our products and available to third-party apps, generates complete, perfectly balanced colour palettes from three values alone: hue, saturation, and brightness. We call it Kiltershade.

All our apps and services are meant to be intuitive to use and simple to understand, with all their content accessible in plain, readable text, and nothing locked away.

Our current products and services are all in development, and we will start launching them soon, one at a time, with dedicated web interfaces for feature requests and bug reports.