Winbon CDI

Third Circuit Studio Sample · Winbon template

Every incident leaves two records

A small studio on the left bank: incident analysis and information design for the city's grids, transit and archives. We read the logs everyone else skims, and we draw what we find.

Open the register File a request

The studio in figures

121Cases filed
14Departments
3Circuits mapped
0Logs thrown away

The register

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CASE 0121 Duplicate records at the depository Archives · forensics Open 2020 CASE 0118 A three-percent anomaly, circuit 3 Grid · log analysis Closed 2019 CASE 0115 Night-tram wayfinding, turning loop north Transit · signage Closed 2019 CASE 0112 Load map for the northern industrial zone Grid · information design Closed 2018 CASE 0104 Reprinting the 1994 floppy backups Archives · recovery Closed 2017 CASE 0097 Bridge lighting schedule, both banks Transit · lighting Closed 2016 CASE 0090 Basement signage, department of inactive branches Signage · wayfinding Closed 2016

Case file

Duplicate records at the depository

Two call-out records with one sequence number. We did not ask which one was true. We asked how the second one got in.

Case
0121 · open
Client
An incident-management firm (withheld)
Field
Archives, forensics
Evidence
Intake logs, certificate fingerprints
Fingerprint
#a3f9…c2

The pattern was not in the content of the records but in their temporal structure: four older duplicates, each moved quietly to passive storage, each presenting the same #a3f9…c2 at the door.

Read the write-up
CASE 0121beforeA
Drawn scene: a green-bar printout with one sequence ringed in red pencil
The intake log as it was printed: two lines, one number.
CASE 0121afterB
Drawn scene: three monitors with translucent windows layered over each other
The same night, laid out so the pattern shows.

Process

Intake, validate, lock, archive

The same four steps the city applies to every record. We apply them to our own work, and we keep every draft.

  1. Intake

    Every log, every export, every printout. Nothing is filtered on the way in.

  2. Validate

    We check format before content. A record that passes is a record, whether we like it or not.

  3. Lock

    Findings are fixed with a fingerprint and a time, so nobody can move them later.

  4. Archive

    The work, the drafts and the dead ends, filed side by side. Nothing is deleted.

Capabilities

What we read, and how well

Log forensics94

94%

Information design88

88%

Wayfinding & signage76

76%

Archive recovery81

81%

Grid telemetry69

69%

Patience at five in the morning100

100%

Contact sheet

Out of the fog

Every case leaves pictures. Point at one to bring it into focus; click to open it.

Drawn scene: glass towers of the left bank, lit windows stacked in the dark Drawn scene: a bridge over the river at five in the morning, its lamps above a bank of mist Drawn scene: a clay tablet incised with rows of Linear A signs Drawn scene: a cobbled lane of the old town under a sodium lamp Drawn scene: a bare concrete corridor under a flickering fluorescent tube Drawn scene: corrugated fences in the industrial zone under a cone of sodium light Drawn scene: a green-bar printout with one sequence ringed in red pencil Drawn scene: two server racks in the dark, blue and green diodes

Two voices

What the clients filed

REF 0042referenceA

They found the fault in the sensor before our own field team found the transformer.

Head of operations, municipal grid
REF 0042referenceB

They made us keep the old signs in the archive. We were annoyed. Two years later we needed them.

Facilities, tram depot north

Departments

Who we have worked for

  • Waterworksfloor 02
  • Tram depot northturning loop
  • Municipal gridcircuits 1–3
  • Traffic controlfloor 11
  • Emergency servicedispatch
  • The depositorybasement
  • Bridge authorityboth banks
  • City press officemorning edition

Colophon

A studio that keeps its drafts

Third Circuit Studio is a sample: a fictional practice on the left bank of Winbon, invented to show how the template carries a portfolio. Swap the register for your own work, keep the records.

SEQ 0000-061colophon

Set in IBM Plex Sans, Public Sans and JetBrains Mono. Pictures are drawn scenes of Winbon, rendered to WebP. No photographs of real places.