No Replica

No Replica is a new design and development studio crafting visual identities, websites, and custom tools. We do that by bridging the gaps between multiple disciplines. We write our own code (and teach it to others).1 We design our own fonts.2 We compose our own music.3 But most of all, we consider every possibility to find the right solution for each project.

1

GD with GD is our teaching hub, hosting playful tools and resources for teaching and learning design and code.
Learn how to design!

2

Too Much Type is our experimental open-source type foundry, prototyping new font technologies through digital type specimens.
Test out some fonts!

3

Barco Loudly is our musical alias, releasing custom instruments and original songs.
Play some music!

Questions? Reach out!

Sounds Good

Generative eye candy and website for the new Toronto listening bar

Common Dimensions

Research platform collecting, documenting, and discussing chairs

The Talent House

A website with a musical twist

RISD Grad Show 2024

Identity and website highlighting spectrums of color used in student work

Too Much Type

Type foundry pioneering experimental techniques and technologies

Highlights from the Impermanent Collection

Digital exhibition in on the form of a video game

This Is For You

A handbook for design students

The Design Observer Twenty

Fellowship and awards program celebrating twenty years of service

Fontbox

Typographic musical sequencer

The 24 Hour Plays

Loud and bold identity for a loud and bold theater company

Williamstown Theatre Festival 2020 Season

Visual identity bringing together color, typography, motion, and sound

Williamstown Theatre Festival 2021 Season

Identity for the Festival’s first season back onstage

The Neighborhood @ Central Synagogue

Digital home for an online community

Tag Team Calligraphers

Collaborative drawing between a human and robot

Central Synagogue 5781 High Holy Days

Identity for the synagogue’s first-ever virtual services

CleverlyCo.

Stop motion-inspired identify for the playful polymer clay jewelry brand

Earworm

Worm-like typographic musical toy

Pixel Weaver 2.0

Dynamic compositions generated from source images

Geocities: Paradise Lost

Data visualizations and article on the rise and fall of GeoCities

A Thesis Compendium

Interactive essay masquerading as an online questionnaire

Small Sites; Big Stories

Interactive narratives collected in a catalog of microsites written using as little code as possible

Variable Fonts Workshop

Variable font testing tool and student work showcase

Notes on Craft

Conversations, exercises, and readings on craft

Smile Through It

Triptych of arcade games played by smiling

Notes from Neither Here nor There

Poetic microsites exploring space, place, and experience

Welcome

An introduction to the internet

.otf, .ttf

Technical article on the most common font file formats

Aurora

Real-time soundtrack for everyday life

Spore Site

Rhizomatic network of responses to a common question

Zoooooooom

Time-based game testing your ability to count

Onomatopoeia

Sonically-powered dynamic poster generator

Does Not Exist

Survey of what does and does not exist on the Internet

Mini Mochi

Variable font and specimen inspired by squishy shape of mochi

Colors of Extinction

Archive of the color palettes of extinct animals

Ghost

Face-tracking mirror

Untitled (Digital Landscape)

Abstract interactive composition made from birds-eye satellite imagery

Live Stream

Stream of streams

Picket Fence

Tool for visualizing picket fence optical illusions

Nautical Maps

Digital recreation of a folded document