Provenance
of Design.

Interactive archive · Design language

The Timeline of Provenance of Design

A vocabulary becomes a world of connections.

The Atlas constellation connecting ideas in a dark field
Atlas · recorded constellation interface

The Atlas grew from collecting words into exploring the relationships between ideas, frameworks, and projects. A living map of the language shaping the practice.

What changes when a collection can reveal its relationships?

A word worth keeping.

The Collected Lexicon began with language: words that helped name a thought, a tension, or an experience. Keeping them together made a growing vocabulary available for use rather than leaving it scattered across references.

From entries to relationships.

The constellation makes room for wandering between terms and the work they inform. Projects and frameworks become destinations within that field. The map is one way to enter the collection; the Work index offers a more direct route.

The original Collected Lexicon cover
The Collected Lexicon · an earlier form of the collection.

An authored interface.

Type, colour, celestial forms, and movement establish the map's language. Its development record preserves the transition from lexicon and homepage experiments to the interactive Atlas.

The development story

Development logs

The first milestone is still taking shape.

This project is in development. Its published story will begin here.