James Mason

Setting out the desk…

The 3D desk needs JavaScript. Every project is listed below, and each has a page of its own.This browser draws 3D without graphics acceleration, so the desk would be slow. Every project is listed below.

Section 03 / 06

Instruments & software

The desk

Personal · 2026 · browser prototype

Record room

Two cream isometric turntables either side of a small mixer on a dark blue worktop, with record sleeves on shelves below.
The booth before a record is loaded, with a shelf of sleeves beneath each deck.Screenshot of my prototype
Close-up of a turntable drawn in projection, its lid display reading NO SIGNAL, beside the mixer.
Deck and mixer, drawn in projection from Technics SL-1210 proportions.Screenshot of my prototype
A record sleeve lifted from the shelf, rendered in coarse blue and cream dither.
A sleeve re-rendered into the two-colour palette, keeping only its colour cast.Screenshot of my prototype

A listening room in the browser: dig through a shelf, drop a record on each deck, cue by dragging the tonearm and blend with a crossfader. One control crushes picture and sound together to 8 or 4 bits.

My role

The idea, interaction design, visual language and direction are mine; it was built with AI coding tools.

  • Original idea, interaction design, visual language and direction

Credits

  • Implemented with AI coding tools

Next in Instruments & softwareLooop →