HEXMONDE: hex, the notation people in tech write in; monde, French for world. The world for people in tech. Notes, Objects and the rest of life.
A job title says what someone does between stand-ups. It leaves out the art lover, the shredder, the parasailor and the sculptor nobody knows about; the parent changing a diaper on the morning call; the neighbor who emcees the block party. Hexmonde is for that whole person.
In C, void * is a pointer with no declared type. It can point at anything, and that is how we think of this place: objects and notes, with nothing that says they must be one kind of thing. Some of the objects are for sale.
Art, Design and Utility
An object earns its place here through art, design or utility. One is enough; some have all three.
What we learn about a material goes into the Notes. One of them, Decision Complexity · D(C), sorts objects by the attention they ask for: 0D settles a question, 2D expresses an intention, XD becomes personal.
The rest of life
The coffee before the stand-up can go in a Sai lacquer cup: double-wall stainless steel from Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata, finished in Yamanaka lacquer. Polishers in Tsubame once finished the steel backs of the first iPods. The wall you look at between calls can hold Rays, triangles of oak veneer laid as rays and dyed with natural indigo; its color changes with the light. The closet can hold a conference T-shirt beside wide pants and a zari kurta.
Hexmonde is a nod to the work people in tech do, and to the lives around that work.
Who runs it
Hexmonde is operated by IG9Labs LLC. If you want to reach a person, the Contact page is the way.