Two models in cobalt and vermilion facing each other against saturated colour fields
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Colour
under
pressure.

Ward Creative Labs is the experimental arm of Ward Creative Studio. We push pigment, light and lens past the point of comfort and keep whatever survives. Four investigations are open — scroll to run them.

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Chroma House exhibition study: Room 01 — Ultraviolet
Case study 01 — In production

Chroma House Exhibitions

A touring series of colour-led rooms. Each exhibition is one lighting hypothesis tested on one body — the palette a visitor sees depends entirely on where they stand and when they arrive.

PhotographyYves Renan · Kathrine Birch · Gusat Silviu

Room 01 — UltravioletGel wash, single subject, no fill.
Case study 02 — R&D alpha

Chromatic Muse

A palette engine trained on the human face rather than the screen. We photograph a single sitter under competing spectra, then extract the colour relationships that still read as skin when everything else has been pushed past believable.

  • InputGel-lit portrait sittings, 42 sets
  • ModelSpectral separation + tone recovery
  • OutputTokenised palettes with a body in them

PhotographyOscar Calstrom · Ratul Pal

Portrait fractured by red and green gel lightFace half-submerged in blue, half in amberPigment-toned portrait in deep magentaSubject rendered in layered spectral colour
Long exposure colour smear across a portraitSilhouette outlined by a hard cyan rim lightSkin tones reading as saturated green and violetClose crop with prismatic colour separation
Case study 03 — Shooting

Cottonbro: A Ward Vision

Photographycottonbro studio

Two figures in bold colour blocks facing each other
Frame 01 — Standoff01
Model against a flat primary colour backdrop
Frame 02 — The Field02
Figure aligned to a hard geometric colour shape
Frame 03 — Geometry03
Contrasting garments read against opposing colour fields
Frame 04 — Counterpoint04
Model paused between two colour planes
Frame 05 — Interval05
Silhouettes overlapping across a saturated set
Frame 06 — Overlap06
Sharp profile against a circular colour form
Frame 07 — Profile07
Set stripped back to a single colour block
Frame 08 — Reset08
Figure leaving the frame of the colour set
Frame 09 — Exit09
Case study 04 — Design style library

111 Ways of Seeing

One interface, rebuilt one hundred and eleven times. Brutalist, editorial, glass, terminal, Y2K — 111 distinct web design treatments across 19 style families, built as a working reference for what a page can become.

  • Entries111 design styles
  • Families19
  • PurposeDesign reference library
  • StatusOpen catalogue