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Stephen Braitsch is a designer + activist + engineer + filmmaker + producer based in San Francisco, California.
He designs and builds tools that empower social, climate and transportation justice.
This website is a collection of his personal experiments and selected commercial work to date.
San Francisco Traffic Violence
2022

A homage to the victims of traffic violence and an analysis of the data and circumstances surrounding each crash.
Transpo Maps
2022

Transportation Maps & Data Analyses for Safe Streets Advocacy
braitsch.org
2021

Memorial site for my brother who passed away on September 4th, 2020.
Bike Match Network
2020

Connecting our first responders, medical professionals and heroes on the front lines with free bikes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Safe Lanes
2019

A grassroots advocacy platform that helps people report illegal parking violations and take the data to their elected officials to demand safer streets. Includes the ability to search for reports within a specific area and date range and lookup repeat offenders by license plate.
Collapsible Workbench
2019

A super strong, compact, collapsible workbench/outfeed table ideal for a garage environment or any limited space work area.
We The People
2018

We The People is a website that invites you to interpret part of the Preamble to the US Constitution and record a short video about what voting means to you. The goal of the project is to increase voter turnout by inspiring the disenfranchised with our personal reflections on this important civic duty.
Sing With Me
2018

Sing With Me is a collaborative singing experience that allows participants to sing part of a song and then see the entire song with everyone's contributions stitched together. It was designed and developed for the 2018 Flying Carpet Music Festival in Mardin, Turkey.
Connected & Responsive Environments
2018

A talk about the future of connected architecture and how Silicon Valley is solving all of the wrong problems.
Fjord Makeshop
2017

Fjord Makeshop is a dedicated space for physical prototyping, experimentation and play. I designed, maintained and curated the programming of the San Francisco Makeshop at Fjord.
Spotlight
2017

Spotlight was a quarterly event that brought artists and designers together to share their process and inspiration and discuss how we can better collaborate across mediums to increase the reach and impact of our work.
Magnetic Letterpress
2016

Magnetic Letterpress is a ferrofluid printing engine that drives 180 rare earth magnets against a reactive pool of black oil. The magnetic fields extrude messages in the oil that are designed to facilitate a conversation around the use of fossil fuels and their impact on climate change.
Marquee
2016

Marquee is a browser based version of Photoshop's marquee tool that makes it easy to crop images and generate web optimized previews.
Type 15 Pentagon Tiling
2015

An interactive video mosaic generated from the geometry of the recently discovered 15th monohedral tiling convex pentagon.
Fight or Flight
2015

An essay and Ignite talk about the often difficult decision we face when deciding whether to continue investing energy in a relationship that isn't giving back to us or to cut or losses and leave.
OpenFrameworks DatGui
2015

OpenFrameworks DatGui is a lightweight and simple to use, fully customizable, high-resolution graphical user interface for OpenFrameworks inspired by the popular JavaScript datgui interface.
Personal Identity
2015

An ongoing project where every year or so I fire up Illustrator and experiment with new type treatments, card stocks and offset printers.
Blocks & Addons
2015

A pair of sites I built to help the creative coding community find extensions for the popular OpenFrameworks & Cinder C++ frameworks.
fuseproject.com
2014

In 2014 I helped design and develop a new site for fuseproject to showcase the studio's internationally recognized body of work.
British Gas Hive
2014

A collaboration with fuseproject, I led the hardware and software prototyping effort for the utility company's first internet connected smart thermostat.
Node Login Boilerplate
2013

A boilerplate to quickly setup a secure Node.js based login system complete with account management, automatic user detection and password retrieval.
Node PI LEDs
2013

A simple experiment that bridges communication between a Node.js web server running on a Raspberry PI and an Arduino driving 24 LEDs.
Socket.IO Doodle
2012

A fun chat room style experiment that allows participants to collaboratively draw together over the web.
JS3 Animation Library
2012

JS3 is a fast and lightweight drawing and animation library for the JavaScript Canvas modeled after the Flash ActionScript drawing API.
ISP Health Monitor
2012

Quickly find out if your Internet service provider is experiencing an outage in your area by crowd sourcing data from nearby denizens.
Revisions
2011

Revisions is a cross-platform Git client for designers built in Adobe Air.
Processing Sunflow
2009

A series of programmatically generated geometry rendered using the open source Sunflow illumination system for Processing.
Nike Sportswear
2009

A collaboration with Ordinary Kids, I developed this experimental microsite for the 2009 Nike Sportswear Line.
Tracy Chapman
2008

A fun playful website I developed for the singer / songwriter in collaboration with Ordinary Kids.
Zenith Rebyrth
2006

Inspired by the Reason digital audio software I created this fun audio sequencer back when I was first learning ActionScript 3.
Caves Music
2006

An early Flash site I designed and developed for the Portland, Or. based band.
Blueprint Films
2006

Blueprint Films (2002-2006) was a cooperative of filmmakers that I co-founded in Portland, Oregon.
Art Institute Commercials
2006

A series of three commercials that I wrote, directed, and edited for the Art Institute of Portland.
Tiny's Coffee
2005

A series of three playful commercials that I wrote, directed, and edited for a local Portland, Or. coffee shop.
A Promise To The Disappeared
2005

A short film I wrote and directed during my senior year of film school.
The Accordion
2004

A short film I produced for my good friend and fellow blueprint collaborator Vincent Caldoni.