We build what withstandslooking.

Aphelion® / 2026

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Stage locked · Datum 0.00

Work

Four accounts · one standard

Fault at rest: the word PRESSURE set across an ultramarine field. — Specimen — at rest

Enlargement ×2 · chart C · raster bands within tolerance

Fault

Letters under pressure.

Object 013Canvas2D92 raster bands desktop / 64 mobile · springs 105 · 18Pressure field · Velocity shear · Press-and-drag crease

019Broadcast

Change the signal.

DOM / CSS · 720ms cubic-bezier(.2,.78,.2,1) · no requestAnimationFrame

022Quarry

Enter the strata.

WebGL · GLSL · 64 raymarch iterations desktop / 36 mobile · spring 36 · damping 8.6

020Seed Vault

Plant the unknown.

Canvas2D · 3 authored + max 11 visitor specimens · recursion depth 3 / 2

Open the full register →

Eight readings · four accounts · authored in house · brand worlds within objects are authored fiction

Aphelion products

Heroes

Live · 35 objects

Two products · one in development

Internal research

Object standard

Internal · applied before build

Anti-pattern review

Internal · applied at release

Commissioned work

Client · year · discipline — open

The jaws are machined and empty.

Aphelion / capability

Nothing is claimedthat cannot be opened.

Creative direction

We decide what the first frame has to do before anything is drawn.

Evidenced in

Vespers Broadcast

Vespers: the ceramic bowl and steam at rest.

033 / Vespers

Web design

Every screen is composed as a resting frame first.

Evidenced in

Broadcast Echolocate

Broadcast: halftone roundel against the editorial grid.

019 / Broadcast

Creative development

Design and build stay in the same system.

Evidenced in

Quarry Tideline Fault Seed Vault

Quarry: raymarched strata under a single sulfur light.

022 / Quarry

Interactive experiences

One input law, bounded, and able to return.

Evidenced in

Echolocate Seed Vault Tideline

Echolocate: acoustic returns after four sources are placed.

035 / Echolocate

Motion systems

Timing written down so it survives the handover.

Evidenced in

Slipstream Fault Broadcast

Slipstream: a vermilion ribbon resolving across bone stock.

027 / Slipstream

Digital identity

A mark, a grid and a voice that hold under pressure.

Evidenced in

BroadcastAphelion / HeroesAphelion / Studio

Aphelion / Heroes

Every claim, with its source →

We built these first.The rest came off them.

Aphelion Heroes: Broadcast, one of the archive’s authored objects.

Slot 01 · occupied · four shownSlot 01 · occupied · three shown

Slot 02 · cut and finished · no material

Aphelion / Heroes

Complete first-screen systems.

Live · 35 objects

Enter the archive

Aphelion / Motion

Reusable motion and interaction systems.

In development

Aphelion / studio

We keep our own bench.The standards come off it.

Aphelion / Studio

Commissioned digital work.

The practice

Aphelion / Heroes

Complete first-screen systems.

Live · 35 objects

Aphelion / Motion

Reusable motion and interaction systems.

In development

01We write the standard before we build the object.

02The resting frame has to work before anything is allowed to move.

Aphelion / inquiry

The stage is clear.Put something on it.

Datum open · commissioned account ready for entry

Start a project

Bring the problem, not the brief.

projects@aphelion.center

Organisation · scope · what stage you are at

Partnerships

Bring the shape of the collaboration.

partners@aphelion.center

Organisation · what you are proposing · what you bring

General

Bring anything else.

hello@aphelion.center

Who you are · what this is about

Aphelion® / 2026Independent digital practiceDesign + development