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, I’ve worked with The Morning Call, Discover Lehigh Valley, First Generation at Lehigh University, the Allentown Fair, and other local organizations. Through partner production teams, I’ve also contributed to larger projects, including work for 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.