← All the evidenceCosmic scrapbook / one loose copier

Mack Heinz Identity

Identity system · full portfolio · motion + procedural sound

I built a portfolio that behaves like a haunted scrapbook assembled by a copier with unsupervised access to space.

A cosmic collage landscape with torn paper planets and a large Mack Heinz title. — The front door: a paper universe with the name turned all the way up.

When: 2026
What I did: I built the identity, directed the universe, organized the evidence, and designed the experience
Things on the floor: Image generation · responsive web · CSS motion · Web Audio · cosmic filing

The short version

My work lives in several incompatible little worlds, so a polite white gallery was never going to hold it. Cosmic Scrapbook became the connective tissue: an intergalactic studio wall where finished projects sit beside scraps, tape, stamps, jokes, and useful debris. The thing running the place is a sentient studio copier making increasingly elaborate problems.

The bad idea

A normal gallery would make everything quieter than it is. I wanted the site to behave like one more project: easy to move through, hard to forget, and tactile despite being trapped behind glass.

The Mack Heinz cosmic portal mark: torn cream paper around a black starfield with violet, coral, and blue accents. — The compact portal mark—built for headers, stamps, avatars, and tiny browser tabs.

A handmade cosmic studio wall with clipped artwork, notes, tape, stars, and playful paper shapes. — The archive wall: projects pinned into one shared orbit.

How it got out of hand

The system combines an image-generated paper universe with responsive collage layouts, a comic-sticker mark, physics-driven cards, signal meters, optional procedural sound, and a complete reduced-motion path. The mess is real. So is the grid underneath it.

A character sheet for Mack Heinz as a battered sentient photocopier with one violet cosmic eye, cable arms, work gloves, and miniature paper worlds emerging from the output tray. — Mack Heinz, allegedly: a possessed copier with a cosmic eye and a chronic world-output problem.