Collect
References, scraps, obsolete tools, overheard phrases, and the useful part of a bad idea.
Clear ideas. Strange edges.
Mack Heinz is an image-maker working where character design, world-building, printed objects, and useful things overlap.
“Make it legible. Then make it strange.”
The practice
Pictures with fingerprints on them
Mack’s work is driven by a fondness for tiny machines, heroic infrastructure, printed ephemera, fan cultures, and jokes that accidentally become complete production systems.
The archive moves between playmats, character families, poster series, merchandise experiments, identity work, and research tools. Every project starts with one clear rule, then earns its dents, tape, scribbles, and weird little inhabitants.
Things the studio likes making
- ✦ Art direction & visual worlds
- ✦ Illustration & identity systems
- ✦ Character systems & repeatable series
- ✦ Prints, playmats & odd merchandise
A four-step controlled accident
Collide
Put two things together that are not supposed to share a room. Wait for the argument.
Build
Make the system real enough to touch: a scene, a set, a page, a print, or an object.
Polish
Keep the fingerprints. Remove the confusion. Leave one small mystery.
Available for select commissions, collaborations, and beautifully unreasonable briefs.
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