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ODE — Object Design Experiments EST. Los Angeles N 34.05 / W 118.24

ODE logo — pixel letterforms in pastel red

Experimental. Creative. Delinquent.

A design studio designing and 3D-printing the streets of Los Angeles in-house, at 1:24, 1:14, 1:12, or whatever the f*** scale we want. Billboards that light up. Bus shelters with swappable posters. Crayons that scratch. Nothing here is what it looks like — that's the point.

Printed in Los Angeles

01 — Street Miniatures / at scale / built to be handled

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Miniatures

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The Porta-Potty

Every job site's least glamorous landmark, shrunk to fit a shelf. Decal reads exactly like the real thing. Doors open. Dignity: not included.

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02 — Manifesto / read twice

Nothing is what it looks like. Perfect shipped.

ODE started as a graffiti-inspired studio printing miniatures of the objects a city pretends not to see — dumpsters, billboards, bus shelters, freeway signs. Things people write off, rebuilt in fine detail and put on a pedestal. Literally.
Everything here carries a disguise. The crayon etches. The vandalism is an art piece. The "No Smoking" cigarette — for non-smokers. We take an object the world already decided about and change what it means — that's the whole practice.
And nothing here is perfect. Chasing perfect kept these ideas in a drawer for years. So the drawer's open now: imperfect, printed, and out in the world. That's not a flaw in the work. It is the work.