December 2025
//Personal project
//Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro, HTML/CSS
//Personal project
//Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro, HTML/CSS
Digital archive of visual and auditory glitch artwork.
Background
opus (stylized in all lowercase) is an ongoing project of mine that aims to archive glitch artwork on all kinds, and make it accessible to artists who may not be
proficient with data-corruption, or people who are simply interested in glitch artwork at all. There are tons of ways to create distorted, strange imagery, and there
isn't a repository that contains a bunch of methods all at once, you have to dig for methods individually. Initially started as my own sort of, 'cookbook' for glitch
imagery in my personal practices, the requests of friends caused me to begin designing a website for opus proper.
Solutions
Creating visual language for opus was difficult, as it needed to look techy and digital, but not tacky or unintentional. I leaned heavily into jpeg corruption for the
key imagery, and then stretched and morphed it as needed. The sort of 'hand-drawn' type and flourishes contribute to this feeling of a kind of grungy, DIY digital space.
| An early exploration of the language of opus.
| A sample page explaining JPG to TXT to JPG corruption.
| A sample page explaining bitcrushing.
| The index for all visual corruption methods.
| The index for all auditory corruption methods.
| An early screenshot of the homepage of opus.
| Hand-drawn and scanned textures used in opus visuals.
| Frames from the animated opus header.