About · Lightly-Salted since 2003
One person, a lot of curiosity, and a well-lit workbench.
Lightly-Salted Productions is a creative laboratory in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. I make things — photographs, software, electronics, the occasional video game — and the thread running through all of it is plain curiosity.
For more than twenty years, the work here has lived where art and technology overlap — sometimes analog, sometimes digital, usually both in the same afternoon.
I don’t specialize so much as follow the thread. A photograph leads to a darkroom trick, which leads to a circuit, which leads to a small program, which somehow becomes a video game about a Pennsylvania highway. It all belongs, because it all starts with the same question: what if I tried this?
The studio’s name is also its philosophy. Innovate, solve, create — but never over-season the work. A dash of creativity is usually plenty.
Along the way, that curiosity has meant good work with good people — among them The Morning Call, Discover Lehigh Valley, Lehigh University, the Allentown Fair, and Mack Trucks.
What happens here
A little of everything, on purpose.
Nothing here is siloed. The disciplines borrow tools from each other constantly — that overlap is the whole point.
Photography
Cameras old and new, film through digital.
Software
Small, sharp tools and the web things around them.
Electronics
Circuits, sensors, and a little solder smoke.
Design
Type, print, packaging, and pixels.
Storytelling
The words that make the rest make sense.
Games
Original games — including a real Atari cartridge.
Retro tech
Old machines, kept alive and put back to work.
Curiosity
The through-line, and the actual job description.
What’s next
I don’t know what I’ll build next either.
That’s the fun part. Take a look at what’s on the bench — or tell me what you’re dreaming up.