LikeStyle Labs / A field book for useful inventions

Leave room for wonder.

Look closely. Ask a better question. Make something worth trying.

See all four experiments

The workbench / Four interactive studies

Start with your hands.

Four interactive studies you can try here. Follow your curiosity and see what changes.

Optical notebook with lenses, light paths, and mechanisms.

Study 01 / Optics

Bend the light.

Follow a ray through a changing lens and see how a shift in perspective changes the result.

Try the light study

Mechanical loom notebook with threads, shuttles, and gears.

Study 02 / Loom

Find your thread.

Adjust a living weave and watch a pattern become a decision you can feel.

Try the loom

Invention notebook with articulated wings and mechanical studies.

Study 03 / Wing

Give it wings.

Move the wings by hand or set the mechanism in motion. Watch how the pieces connect.

Try the wing study

An optical drawing with an enlarged detail under a magnifying lens.

Study 04 / Magnifier

Look closer.

Move the magnifier across the drawing to take a closer look at the details.

Open the magnifier

The Egg illustrated cover, with a luminous egg made from human lives and a golden spiral.

New in the notebook / Visual storytelling

A small story. An entire universe.

An illustrated edition of Andy Weir’s The Egg. Eight pages exploring how words and images can give a story room to unfold. Visual interpretation by Gerald Broughton; typography by LikeStyle.

Read The Egg and explore the study Open the full Journal

Da Vinci-inspired invention folio showing wing anatomy, mechanisms and tests.

Contemporary concept illustration · Not an original Leonardo drawing

Observation becomes possibility

It starts with “what if?”

Inspired by Da Vinci’s notebooks: the sketch, the mechanism, the question in the margin. A place to explore how technology can leave more room for life.

Step inside a drawing

Questions on the workbench

Da Vinci-inspired optical study with light paths, mirrors and comparison frames.

What if the experiment kept a way back?

Afterimage explores what happens when motion becomes part of an image. The original stays available.

Try the strange idea. Keep a path home.

Working study · Concept illustration, not a product screenshot.

Ask about Afterimage

Da Vinci-inspired mechanical loom study with shuttles, gears and material experiments.

What if a system made more room for character?

Foundry asks how much creative range one owned foundation can carry. This notebook and the websites in the showcase explore that question.

The structure should support the expression.

LikeStyle product family · Concept illustration.

Explore Foundry

Da Vinci-inspired map and time register with route and observation studies.

What if a possibility became a real plan?

HereSpark and BlueDoor explore different parts of that human question. They are independent companies with their own identities.

The screen is not the destination.

Independent companies · Concept illustration.

Step into their worlds

Keep asking. Keep making.

A useful invention earns its place in someone’s day.

01
Look closely
Notice something that could work better for a person.
02
Make it tangible
Try a small version of the idea and learn from what happens.
03
Keep what helps
Show what the experiment taught you, including what remains uncertain.

In the margins / The Field Book

A few things worth thinking about.

Note 01 / Creative freedom

Keep a path home.

Experimentation feels different when the source is still there.

Read the note

Note 02 / Useful technology

The person is the point.

The interesting mechanism is only the beginning. What does it make easier?

Read the note

What have you been wondering about?

Have an idea you keep coming back to? Tell us what you would like to try.

Bring your idea Read the Labs journal

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