Micrographic Engine
graphic layout tool
Year: 2026 Category: work Stack: Paper.js, OpenType.js, JavaScript
Tone Designer
browser modular synth
Year: 2026 Category: work Stack: Web Audio API, Audio Design
Reference Angle
Figure reference tool for portrait artists. Rotate a 3D head, get real photographs at that camera angle. Real photos, no AI. Revival of ReferenceAngle.com.
Year: 2026 Category: work Stack: MediaPipe, Three.js, Vue, Python
Brixel
Brutalist pixel display font.
Year: 2026 Category: art Stack: FontForge, Aseprite
Diagram Language
A visual language for process flowcharts and system diagrams. Reusable symbol set with consistent grammar. From the archive, being prepped as a downloadable asset pack.
Year: 2026 Category: art Stack: Vector, Illustrator
Music and sound design work.
MUSIC PLATFORMS
soundcloud
LAWRENCE ERVIN
Lawrence Watusi Ervin is an artist and developer working in North Carolina under the name Watusi.
His work centres on building tools rather than finished objects - instruments that other people use to make their own things. Tone Designer is a browser-based modular synthesizer that exports production-ready Tone.js code; you patch it visually and it hands you working audio software. It is open source and has been forked and used by developers building their own audio applications. Micrographic Engine is a typographic and generative design tool built on OpenType and Paper.js. Both are free and public.
He also releases sound design work, and runs Extendo, a design practice, and Viva Carta, an ongoing enquiry into the philosophy of design.
He is available for commissioned work in design, audio, and tool-building.
Lawrence Watusi Ervin is an artist and developer working in North Carolina under the name Watusi.
His work centres on building tools rather than finished objects - instruments that other people use to make their own things. Tone Designer is a browser-based modular synthesizer that exports production-ready Tone.js code; you patch it visually and it hands you working audio software. It is open source and has been forked and used by developers building their own audio applications. Micrographic Engine is a typographic and generative design tool built on OpenType and Paper.js. Both are free and public.
He also releases sound design work, and runs Extendo, a design practice, and Viva Carta, an ongoing enquiry into the philosophy of design.
He is available for commissioned work in design, audio, and tool-building.