Silly Wizards Guild

Assistive product design · local speech recognition · Python application development

Writing by voice works well only when software understands the voice in front of it. Say What is a local Greek dictation tool being developed for people with speech impediments, breathing disorders and other disabilities that make keyboards or general-purpose dictation systems difficult. It is intended for practical and long-form work: composing letters, leaving messages and narrating books one phrase at a time.

The prototype listens for the speaker’s natural pauses instead of treating them as mistakes. Silero voice-activity detection separates speech into breath groups; faster-whisper transcribes each group in Greek; the preceding passage returns as context so new phrases can be joined into editable prose. Pause length and model size remain adjustable, existing recordings can be transcribed, and the text autosaves locally. Audio stays on the computer.

We built and tested the pipeline in Python with Tkinter, sounddevice, CTranslate2 and Whisper. The current result is a research prototype: useful enough to test with real speech, but not yet a finished assistive product. These images are concept studies for how its interface, and a possible dedicated device, could develop.

Installation · astronomical computation · physical interface

ASTRA is an installation that files the sky. A DUX television from about 1957, a rotary telephone dial and a computer that carries the mathematics of the heavens inside it — no feed, no network. It recomputes the true positions of the Sun, Moon and planets every sixty seconds from the Swiss Ephemeris, the dataset planetariums use. The moon waxing on the screen is waxing above the building.

You dial a date of birth, eight digits, then dial again for the matter: work, love, or the other thing. The archive compares the sky of that day with the sky overhead now and reports where the two touch. Every sentence was written in advance — composed in collaboration with an artificial intelligence during the making of the work, then edited and curated by hand. Nothing generates at the moment of consultation; the machine selects and assembles. Your date is used for one computation and then forgotten. The archive keeps files on the sky, not on you.

Artist: KidButton. The librarian’s corpus was written in collaboration with Claude (Anthropic), edited and curated by the artist.

Narrative platform · living characters · synthetic image and film

Living Fiction is a platform for authored stories with living characters — not scripted dialogue trees, but minds with a history, loyalties, and things they will not say. You question them in your own words. What you learn depends on how you treat the people who know.

The first case, Before the Mountains, opens in 1935. An expedition is preparing to sail, a cargo inspector has drowned in the dock basin, and the committee has already agreed on its account. The file stays open for six days. Story, characters, interface and image are built as one production.

Product design · desktop application · image processing

Shrimp Wrap is a tiny Mac app born in a moment of password-reset agony. Our usual image converter told us to change our password after a security leak. Ain’t nobody got time for that, so we did the reasonable thing and built an entire app instead.

It turns batches of PNG and JPEG files into WebP locally, without uploading anything or changing the originals. No network connection. No account. No password to forget.

Interaction design · animation · development

A touch table for Fujifilm’s MRI and CT scanners, built for ECR 2024 in Vienna. Visitors explored the machines at full scale, several at once, standing around the table rather than queueing at a screen.

We designed and developed the surface itself — the interaction model, the animation, and the behaviour under several hands at once. The hard part was the crowd, not the interface: content had to read from three sides of the table and hold up while four people used it simultaneously.

Fantasy-football manager · product design · application

Fantasy football begins as a pleasant fifteen-player puzzle and quickly becomes an unpaid part-time job involving fixture spreadsheets, injury rumours, price changes and the recurring discovery that the player you benched has scored twice. FAK — Fantasy Arse Kicker — is a highly opinionated manager for people who enjoy the game but do not wish to establish a small analytics department to play it.

Connect an existing Fantasy Premier League team with its public manager ID — no password. FAK reads the published squad, players, fixtures and deadlines, then turns the week’s noise into a short brief: what changed, whether it matters and what to do before the deadline. It can propose a legal eleven and bench, captaincy, a sensible hold or a single transfer, while showing the reasoning.

FAK advises; you remain the hands. It never touches the official account or quietly detonates a Wildcard while you sleep. Coming soon: macOS first, then iOS and Android.

Animated series · world-building · music and mythology

An animated series set within the universe we originally created around the band of the same name — a world of music, mythology and mysterious Glitch Black Ovoids.

As planet Earth freezes, so do the sounds that surround us. Rivers stop rushing, cities stop humming and humanity begins slipping into a cold and silent slumber. Behind it all is Nitus, an ancient celestial being consuming the frequencies created by noise and silencing the Music of the Spheres.

Our unlikely heroes are a newly formed band who discover that when they play together, something extraordinary happens. Their instruments transform. Colour returns to the world. Ice begins to retreat. Music, quite literally, brings Spring in December.

Connecting everything is the Glitch Black Ovoid — an impossible object appearing throughout history, from Pythagoras and his discovery of the Music of the Spheres to the band’s own strange awakening. Part symbol, part puzzle, part portal to somewhere else entirely.

Product concept · UX and UI design · iOS development

Most habit trackers ask you to build a system. DotDone asks one question: did I do the thing today?

One tap records a timestamped dot. Hold to choose a named task and colour; open the calendar to see the record. The calendar is the whole visualisation — no charts, scores or dashboards competing with the answer you came for.

Built as an intentionally small, private iOS app, everything stays on the device. There are no accounts, analytics, streaks, badges or judgement. Just a trustworthy record for the low-salience routines that are easiest to forget — from taking medication and vitamins to watering the plants or feeding the cat — because the log only works when using it is easier than trying to remember.

Classification system · card game · research and art direction

Our right to be called wizards has just been elevated. We’re building the definitive classification system for wizardry and creating a game based on the much loved Top Trumps. Childhood dreams can come true!

Toppus Trumpus, or as it’s now been officially renamed, Silly Wizards, brings together history’s occultists, mythological heavyweights, legendary sorcerers and assorted magical oddballs, then subjects them all to the same six sacred measures: Arcane Power, Mythic Legacy, Knowledge, Charisma, Aesthetic and Chaos. Merlin scores 100 for Mythic Legacy. Odin gets 100 for Knowledge. Thoth has a frankly disappointing 18 for Chaos. These things matter.

Part research project, part collectible card game, part completely unnecessary argument about who would beat whom, the deck keeps growing as we dig deeper into folklore, mythology, mysticism and history.

Proposal · city-wide AR · Göteborg’s 400th year

Walk through Göteborg and you’ll pass kings, warriors, scholars and poets cast in bronze. Thirty of them are men. Four are women.

That’s not history — that’s an editing decision. And it’s been left unchallenged for a century.

SculptHer is a live proposal to correct the record without waiting for a committee, a commission or a foundry. It would immortalise the women who built this city and those shaping what comes next — placing them on plinths in the squares and open spaces where monuments have always belonged.

Rather than copper and marble, we sculpt in code. AR markers would appear across the city. Through your phone, each plinth would come alive: a remarkable woman, her story, her place.

No permits. No bronze. No decade-long approval process. A whole gallery of women could be installed across Göteborg overnight and launched on International Women’s Day.

It would be a monument you could walk to. A map you could follow. And proof that the tools to rewrite public space are already in everyone’s pocket.