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A creative experiences & technology agency

Reasonable brands are invisible.

// The fix We build experiences too strange to scroll past — physical, digital, and the uncomfortable space in between. Attention first. Affinity forever. Installations · AR & WebGL · Story systems
Scroll — it gets weirder
01 — The premise

Nobody remembers a product. Everybody remembers the time a croissant blocked out the sun. Attention isn't bought anymore — it's earned by the unreasonable. We engineer moments people retell badly at dinner parties, and every retelling is media you didn't pay for.

Selected
evidence

02 — 4 exhibits + the one you're in
Exhibit A
Public stunt
Exhibit A — VELDT Running Co.

The One-Meter Marathon

A full marathon, compressed into one meter of city square.

A mirror-chrome treadmill monolith landed in the square overnight, unannounced. Step on, and 26.2 miles of the city are projected around you in real time. The leaderboard lived on a billboard. The city argued about it for six weeks — which was the point.

41 minavg. dwell time
12.4Morganic impressions
+38%aided brand recall
Discipline Experiential · Projection · Live data  /  Year 2025
Exhibit B
Retail gravity
Exhibit B — Café Ordinaire

The Croissant Ascension

A 14-meter croissant, tethered above a café that nobody used to notice.

Under the blimp: the Bakery of Weightless Things — an AR menu of pastries with zero calories and zero mercy. The croissant became a landmark, the landmark became a queue, and the queue became a habit.

3.1MUGC views, week one
+212%weekend footfall
6 wkssold out daily
Discipline Inflatable OOH · AR menu · Retail  /  Year 2025
Exhibit C
City-scale AR
Exhibit C — Nimbus Mobile

Ghost Signal

A city-wide séance, conducted through dead payphones.

We resurrected the city's abandoned payphones as portals. Answer one and the street's past calls play back around you in AR — a coverage map turned treasure map. A telecom brand people actively went looking for. Yes, we're aware how that sounds.

68kplayers, month one
19earned media pieces
−11ptchurn among players
Discipline City-scale AR · Sound design · Street furniture  /  Year 2026
Exhibit D
Sensor theatre
Exhibit D — The Museum of Almost

Permanent Collection of Unfinished Things

An institution for ideas that never made it. Finally, representation.

Sensor-driven rooms where half-built exhibits complete themselves only when enough strangers cooperate — light finishing sculpture, sound finishing sentences. People came for the joke and stayed for each other.

92%room completion rate
4.7★2,300 reviews
3 mobooked out
Discipline Exhibition · Sensors · Projection mapping  /  Year 2026
Exhibit 0 — the one under oath

You're standing in it.

Everything on this page — the 3D, the motion, the imagery, the interactions — was designed and built entirely in-house, in days. No templates. No outsourcing. It's the only exhibit you can verify, because you're using it right now. Now imagine it pointed at your brand.

Built in-houseDays, not monthsZero templates

One studio,
many dialects

02.5 — The range · drag →

Same brain, different pens. Six briefs we gave ourselves, six visual languages. There's something International Orange hiding in every piece — consider it a brand loyalty test.

Anime cel
Anime cel · animatedSlurp Saga, S01Tanto Ramen — launch as an opening credits sequence
Mixed media
Photo × doodleEvery Crumb CountsLoaf Savings — a mascot loose in the transit system
Clay 3D
Clay 3D · animatedA Very Soft RiotPolywobble Fest — the whole festival, thumb-sized
Risograph
RisographThe Insomniac Reading ClubCity Library — posters for people awake at 3am
Papercraft
PapercraftDescend Into FlavorKiosk Coffee — the cup as a canyon expedition
Pixel art
Pixel artThe Ascension: The GameCafé Ordinaire — yes, the croissant got a video game

Your competitors are being reasonable right now.

Exploit that →

What we
actually do

03 — Capabilities
/01

Experiential

Installations, pop-ups and public stunts engineered to stop foot traffic and start arguments. Physical things that make phones come out of pockets — permits, fabrication and crowd logistics included.

/02

Technology

WebGL, AR, real-time 3D and generative pipelines — built in-house, not outsourced. We ship working software and living installations, not decks about what software could be.

/03

Story systems

Campaigns designed to be retold, not just seen. We architect the rumor, the reveal and the second act — so the experience keeps compounding after the crowd goes home.

The
method

04 — Rigorous nonsense
01

Suspicion

Find the boring truth everyone in your category politely accepts. That's the loose thread.

02

Heresy

Invert it into something unreasonable enough to be interesting, precise enough to be on-brand.

03

Prototype

Build ugly, test fast in public. Keep only what makes strangers stop walking.

04

Ship & measure

Dwell time, retellings, affinity, sales. Not impressions theater. If it didn't move the brand, it didn't happen.

05 — Objections, anticipated
Who is this for? +
Challenger brands with something to prove — and the ambition to out-experience competitors they can't outspend. If your category is "fine" and your brand tracker is flat, you're exactly who we built this for. If you want a safe campaign, there are 14,000 agencies who'd love your call.
Isn't this risky? +
Being ignored is riskier — it just bills you quietly. Every idea is prototyped ugly and tested in public before a dollar of production money moves (Method, step 03). The stunts look reckless; the process is boringly disciplined. Permits, insurance, crowd logistics — all our problem, not yours.
What does it cost? +
Less than the media budget you'd burn buying the same attention, more than a template. Projects are scoped to the idea, not the hours — and the first unreasonable idea is free (see below). We build most things in-house, which is where the efficiency lives.
How do we measure it? +
Agreed before we build, not reverse-engineered after: dwell time, footfall, recall lift, retellings, sales. Not impressions theater. The case studies above carry their numbers because that's the habit — if it didn't move the brand, it didn't happen.