Applied Curiosity
An illustrated book about turning questions into real things from Stephanie & Isaac Budmen.
436 illustrated pages. Available now.
Heritage Park, Digitized
How do you hold on to a place while your city changes around it?
Made with the Onondaga Historical Association.
Read the storyA Practice of Applied Curiosity
Budmen
Industries
Explore our cabinet of curiosities, interactive artifacts from fifteen years of making, teaching, and discovery.
Our Story
The Sonochromatic Scale
Neil Harbisson's Color-Sound Map
Born colorblind, Neil Harbisson senses colors as sounds through a surgically implanted antenna. Each hue has a unique frequency, this is his sonic spectrum.
Tap any color to hear its sound
Contraption
Typography that looks assembled, not drawn
Let Curiosity Lead
A Card Archive
Cards on why curiosity matters, some handwritten and some submitted online. The archive began in October 2025, when we carried the first bundle of cards to Capitol Hill.
Discoveries
Explore more of the creative discovery stories from our applied curiosity practice
Hey makers!
TallyTape
Send invoices in 30 seconds. No signup, no tracking, just a simple tool for makers.
Loopbook
Tutorial Creation Made Simple
Our app for creating step-by-step tutorials that loop, making it easy to teach skills and easier to learn them.
Figment
Interactive Learning Platform
The platform we built for our Creative Discovery programs: 3D models, sketching, voting, and spatial learning experiences.