Happy 2026 from Team Budmen
Our Year in
Review
As we launch into 2026, take a look back at 8 projects from 2025. A year of questions that led us forward. Step inside our 3D New Years card to explore how curiosity shaped our practice in 2025.
Hey makers! 💛
TallyTape
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A Practice of Applied Curiosity
Budmen
Industries
Explore our cabinet of curiosities—interactive artifacts from a decade of making, teaching, and discovery.
Our StoryThe Workshop
is now open
Explore instruments of curiosity, each one started with a question
Contraption
Typography that looks assembled, not drawn
Question Generator
Build unexpected questions by combining unrelated elements. This is how new projects begin.
The Sonochromatic Scale
Neil Harbisson's Color-Sound Map
Born colorblind, Neil Harbisson senses colors as sounds through a surgically implanted antenna. Each hue has a unique frequency—this is his sonic spectrum.
Tap any color to hear its sound
Explore Intersections
Tap disciplines to see what emerges
Pick any 2 disciplines
Figment
Interactive Learning Platform
The platform we built for our Creative Discovery programs—3D models, sketching, voting, and spatial learning experiences.
Let Curiosity Lead
A Civic Movement
Our campaign to make curiosity a civic virtue, delivering community voices to government and community leaders through the Curiosity Mailbag.
Loopbook
Tutorial Creation Made Simple
Our app for creating step-by-step tutorials that loop—making it easy to teach skills and easier to learn them.
Project Stories
Explore more of the creative discovery stories from our applied curiosity practice