SAMWERKS

Online home of Sam Cook

Product Design Leader + Design Systems Builder, based in the PNW

Home Work Projects Thoughts Resources Sam who?
SAMWERKS

Online home of Sam Cook

Product Design Leader + Design Systems Builder, based in the PNW

Home Work Projects Thoughts Resources Sam who?

Projects

Small tools built for fun or to solve real problems.

Annular

annular.earth

An interactive globe for exploring places around the world — search any city, address, or postcode, drag to rotate, and click to dive in.

Densities

densities.app

The easiest way to change screen densities on your MacBook — official resolutions at your fingertips, right from the menu bar.

Building this site

A short colophon — the stack, the decisions, and the details behind samwerks.com.

Palette of Place

A UW senior capstone that visualizes the colors of Seattle places from thousands of geotagged photos, built in Processing.

See you out there

A personal side project — landscape photography from PNW hikes, turned into prints under the name Cold Coast.

Arcade 30.3

Cover photography and editorial imagery for issue 30.3 of Arcade, a Seattle design magazine — shot across UW design and built-environment studios.

IxDA Seattle Interview Series

A short film series for the 2012 Seattle Design Festival — interviews with local design figures on the future of the city. Screened at SIFF.

Best foot forward

Photographing all 58 students of the UW Design 2014 graduating class for the Senior Show — full-body and headshot portraits.

Albersmania

A color-matching puzzle game inspired by Josef Albers, designed and coded in Processing — with sliders, a timer, and game-show sound effects.