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TARGET ACQUIRED
Chrome Protocol
A character-art direction study: polished endoskeleton forms, hydraulic detail, and red-optic menace — built as a reusable visual language for posters, covers, and campaign key art.
PhoNull Designs// Independent design labChrome · Code · Machines
PhoNull
Designs
Interfaces built like machines — loud on the surface, ruthless underneath. Web experiences, visual systems, and creative builds with a pulse.
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The Studio
ManifestoWe design like engineers and build like machines — every pixel earns its place, every interaction locks on and holds.
PhoNull Designs is an independent studio working at the seam between graphic design and creative technology. Posters that behave like dashboards. Websites that feel like hardware. Brands with targeting systems for eyes.
Small by design, senior by default. One point of contact, no account managers, no hand-offs into the void — the person who designs it is the person who builds it.
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Web Experiences
Fast, theatrical websites with real engineering underneath — designed to be remembered and built to hold up under load.
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Visual Identity
Wordmarks, type systems, and graphic languages with industrial bones — identities that survive contact with the real world.
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Interface Systems
HUD-grade dashboards, design systems, and component libraries — dense information made legible at a glance.
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Creative Builds
Interactive experiments, generative artwork, and one-off machines for launches, events, and people who like weird.
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Selected Work
Concept seriesSIGNAL DENSE / LEGIBLE
Redline HUD
An interface concept in pure phosphor red: targeting reticles, circular gauges, and schematic diagrams composed into a single-glance command view. Proof that monochrome is a feature, not a limitation.
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BUILT, NOT BOUGHT
Workbench MK-II
Product-concept photography direction for fictional field hardware: safety-yellow armor, chunky mechanical keys, and a workshop that looks like it could build the thing back.
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Media Stacks
Build · Deploy · HandoffYour library deserves a machine that just works. We build and deploy media server stacks for people who want their own setup — spec'd, installed, and handed over with the keys.
Custom Build
A stack designed around your hardware, your library, and how hands-on you want to be. We spec the machine, lay out the services, lock down access, and leave you a setup that can grow disc by disc instead of falling over.
Unraid Build
Already running Unraid, or want the friendlier path to a serious home server? We configure storage, shares, and apps so the array stays boring, the library stays online, and adding space is a chore — not a project.
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Infrastructure Builds
Servers · Virtualization · ContainersMedia stacks are just the start. We also build and deploy the metal underneath — virtualization hosts, container platforms, and the bare-metal servers they run on.
Proxmox Servers
A bare-metal Proxmox host turns one box into a fleet. We spec the hardware, install and tune the hypervisor, carve up storage and networking, and leave you a cluster — or a single node — that can grow VM by VM instead of server by server.
Docker & Podman
Containers without the chaos. Whether it's Docker Compose stacks for a home server or daemonless Podman for locked-down hosts, we set up the runtime, the networking, and the update routine so your services stay boring in the best possible way.
Kubernetes
When one host stops being enough, Kubernetes spreads the load. We stand up clusters sized for real work — from a three-node homelab to production-grade — with ingress, storage, and observability wired in from day one, not bolted on later.
Server Builds
Sometimes the right answer is just a well-built box. We design and assemble servers around the workload — compute, storage, networking — cable-managed, burned in, and documented before it ever hits your rack.
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How It Runs
Four-phase cycle01
Scan
We map the terrain — audience, constraints, and the one thing the work has to do. No deliverables yet, just signal.
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Design
Directions get drawn, not described. You react to real compositions, real type, real color — early enough to matter.
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Build
Design and code move together. What you approved is what ships — no translation layer, no telephone game.
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Deploy
Launch, measure, tighten. The machine stays maintained — a build that can't be serviced is a liability.
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Open Channel
Now bookingHave a machine
to build? Let's talk.
Commissions open for the current cycle — websites, identities, interfaces, media stack builds, server and container-platform builds, and strange one-off builds. Generate a project brief below, paste it into your message, and the studio takes it from there.
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