Teaching Design to Non-Designers: A Plaque Studio Built for a MODA Workshop
How I vibe-coded an interactive plaque design tool that teaches visual hierarchy to non-designers, built for a workshop with the Museum of Design Atlanta.
A Civic Kiosk That Turns Community Input Into a Receipt You Pin to a Wall
I'm building a civic engagement kiosk that prints a personalized intersection receipt for community input events, and looking for a municipality or civic org to pilot it.
Koozie Museum
A digital archive of more than 80 Southern can coolers, photographed on a handmade 360° rig and organized as tiny pieces of commercial art, regional culture, and applied-AI research.
Riso Print Shop
A virtual print shop where you upload a photo, choose up to three real risograph ink colors, preview the riso look, and order a physical print made in Atlanta.
I Built an Off-Grid Timelapse Camera to Watch Light Move Through a Garden
How I vibe-coded a Raspberry Pi timelapse camera that runs off-grid on battery power, built to study how light moves through a garden over time.
Newsbox Hunter: Using Street View and AI Vision to Find Abandoned Creative Loafing Boxes (Poorly)
How I built a tool that scans Google Street View imagery across Atlanta with Claude's vision API to find leftover Creative Loafing newsboxes.
Aura Booth: An Instant-Film Photobooth That Paints a Living Aura Around You
How I built Aura Booth, a single-file photobooth that generates a procedural, animated aura photo based on your sign, mood, and energy.
Bowl-O-Matic: I Turned a Friend's App Idea Into a Slot Machine for Salad
How I vibe-coded Bowl-O-Matic, a grain bowl recipe generator that started as a preference picker and became a pixel art slot machine.
I Built an AI Photobooth for Events (and Here's Everything That Broke)
How I automated an event activation where AI generates a portrait from how you describe yourself, and everything that broke along the way.
Six Vibe-Coded Tools I Built to Fix Illustrator and InDesign's Worst Habits
A roundup of six AI-built tools I made for my design practice, from a logo color-combo generator to a Claude-powered spell checker for InDesign.
I Turned Live MARTA + other transit Bus Data Into Generative Music
How I vibe-coded the ATL Bus Sonifier, a tool that turns real-time MARTA bus movement into generative ambient music. Built with AI tools, deployed at sonifier.sarahclawrence.com.
I Brought a Dead App Back From the Grave With AI-Assisted Development
How I rebuilt Taste Bud, a recipe generator my husband and I built years ago, from scratch with Claude as my collaborator after the original went offline.
I Built an Offline Photobooth That Prints Your Photo as a Receipt
How I vibe-coded a portable, offline photobooth on a Raspberry Pi that prints black-and-white photos on thermal receipt paper.
Viewfinder Windows: A Photobooth Where the Filters Are Draggable Little Windows
I built a browser-based photobooth toy where nine different image filters render as draggable, composable windows you rearrange over a frozen shot.
Queen Bee HQ: A Full Spelling Bee Command Center in a Single HTML File
How I built Queen Bee HQ, a spelling bee app for bar events with a projector display, championship round rules, and AI-assisted word generation, all in one HTML file.
Home Tasks Dashboard: Building a Maintenance Tracker for the House That Actually Works
How I vibe-coded a wall-mounted home maintenance dashboard that resets timers from when a task actually got done, not when it was scheduled.
All the Other Lives I Could Maybe Still Live
When I get stressed I want to learn stuff. Unsure why. But let’s do it together.
Video Games That Almost Anyone Can Play
I believe anyone can play video games – here are some I think you should seriously consider checking out.
5 Tips for Being a Successful Freelance Designer
Embark on your freelance design journey armed with curated expertise, standout branding, savvy business acumen, and a knack for networking, and watch your creative career soar