Creative work

Ideas, design projects and how they came to life.

18 articles

1. Atypical Alchemist

   Atypical Alchemist is Clint Zehner's collection and website about science, history, alchemy, and the things that make him want to know more. It began with the limits on travel around the COVID period and grew into a wall of historical...

2. Building SistersErie.com

   Character development, visual identity, front-end work, and original music turn a band website into a substantial creative project.

3. Building Zwikipedia

   I wanted a place where an article about something I had made could be as long as it needed to be. Some projects need a paragraph. Others have a story involving a website, a physical object, an experiment with AI, and several occasions...

4. Carbs of the Huge Manatee

   Carbs of the Huge Manatee, or CHM, began as Clint Zehner's series of Unauthorized Expansions for Cards Against Humanity. He created nine expansions of roughly a hundred cards each, sold them through Amazon, and came close to placing an...

5. ClintZehner.com

   A broad portfolio records the designs, experiments, and self-imposed briefs behind a growing collection of projects.

6. Creating Arcana University

   An early AI experiment grew into a university with very ordinary website needs and some unusually complicated students.

7. Creating Beat the Sunrise

   I had intended to make a live album of songs the Sisters Erie would play. Then I ran into the problem of getting the music tools to make the covers I wanted. Meanwhile, writing original songs was turning out to be a lot of fun.

8. Creating Big Gay Werewolves

   A film stinger became a rainbow-backed shirt, a small website, and an opportunity for several more design jokes.

9. Creating Running Underhill

   An attempted Kate Bush cover, a homemade book of faerie folklore, and four unexpected recordings led to an original Sisters Erie song.

10. Creating Sisters Erie

    A tour-shirt design grew into a detailed band history, four distinct sisters, and a growing collection of original music.

11. Dark Daze

    An ordinary Thursday becomes a card game about energy, success, and the people who can complicate both.

12. OneStarReview.net

    OneStarReview.net is Clint Zehner's response to what he jokingly calls the “constant business need for validation.” It provides short replies to requests for ratings, recommendations, surveys, and reviews—including requests that make little...

13. Operation Paperclip

    Clint’s 2019 redesign gives Universal Paperclips a production-console interface and keyboard shortcuts for working in batches.

14. Pet Savers of Shreveport Website

    The Pet Savers of Shreveport website is a long-running design and development project by Clint Zehner. He first built it in 2006 as a surprise for his mother, who had founded Pet Savers in 2005. What began as a site he maintained himself...

15. VoTexas

    Clint gave Susan Shelton’s election recommendations a wider home while preserving the reasoning and personal knowledge behind them.

16. ZDP Development Protocol

    The ZDP Development Protocol is Clint Zehner's framework for working with AI on software projects. It developed over time as he moved between projects, kept what helped, and turned recurring problems into working rules. Its concern is...

17. Zwikipedia

    Zwikipedia is Clint Zehner's personal encyclopedia, long-form portfolio, and home for writing about subjects that interest him. It brings together the projects he makes, fictional worlds related to those projects, and other ideas worth...

18. Zwolf Personal Intranet (ZPI)

    The Zwolf Personal Intranet, or ZPI, is Clint Zehner's evolving place for the information he needs and the ideas he does not want to lose. Its history reaches back to a personal intranet page he made in 2002, while the current application...