Audio Reactive Type x Beatbox Installation

2025 TDC + ADC + One Club Holiday Party

To celebrate the 2025 Members Holiday Party for The One Club for Creativity, Type Directors Club (TDC), and Art Directors Club (ADC), we produced a one-of-a-kind live beatboxing performance paired with an audio-reactive typographic installation.

The performance featured SPIDERHORSE, the world-champion beatboxing duo of Chris Celiz and Gene Shinozaki, known for pushing the boundaries of vocal music through intricate rhythms, melody, and multi-instrumental sound. Over the past eight years, they have redefined what the human voice can do on stage.

Designed specifically for the event, the installation was a fully generative, audio-reactive system built in p5.js. All visuals were generated live—driven exclusively by the duo’s microphone inputs and rendered entirely through live variable fonts manipulated by code. No pre-made graphics were used; every form emerged in real time, making the installation as improvised and expressive as the performance itself.

All variable fonts were designed by WeType.co.

KUDOS Design Collaboratory

  • John Kudos
    Creative Director
  • Kiki Katahira
    Producer & Creative Director
  • Lakeisha Sharonina
    Creative Coder
  • James Marquette, Caitlin Yackley
    Graphic Designer

SPIDERHORSE

  • Chris Celiz, Gene Shinozaki
    Beatboxers
 

Big Horn BBQ Website & Type Design

Big Horn BBQ

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Client

Fueled by Texas-sized hospitality, Big Horn dish out the finest BBQ, deliver grade-A customer service, and keep things clean as a whistle in a friendly, family-style setting for the folks in our communities. Big Horn is not just a restaurant, it’s a tight-knit second home for the staff where excellence and warmth intersect.

When tasked to refresh Big Horn’s website, we identified the need to refresh its brand messaging. Without changing its locally known bullhorn logo, we infused a new ethos to the brand by introducing wit to the website copywriting, rendered in newly custom-designed typeface, BH Classy. We also designed illustrations that compliment the new tone of voice, each time combining 2 objects into a playful new icon that looks great on their own and as a wallpaper.

Visit bighorn-bbq.com

KUDOS Design Collaboratory

  • John Kudos
    Creative Director
  • Amanda Knott
    Project Manager
  • Jamus Marquette
    Lead Designer
  • Owen Febiandi
    Designer
  • Mares
    Type Design
  • Chris Manlapid
    Web Developer
  • Christyan Junaedi Setiawan
    Web Developer