We built Momentje to bring a small, beautiful ritual into the places people gather. It’s an all-wood photo booth centered on the ceremony of the printed photo strip — something to hold, not scroll past. Our first booth is live now at the Hawthorne Theatre in Portland.

Step in. Tap to pay. The lights flash — three frames: a glance, a joke, a look you didn’t plan. As the print develops, you’ll get one quick yes/no about sharing to the public feed (@momentje.fun). Then it drops into the tray in front of you. If you opt out, the moment stays yours. Simple as that.

We designed the booth to feel like a timeless piece of furniture that doubles as a tiny stage. Warm wood, soft curves, and surface-printed artwork give it history without tipping into kitsch. Its interface is tactile and restrained: wooden buttons, a one-way mirror, and a lo-fi pixel display that glows softly behind the glass. The silhouette stays the same from site to site, but the artwork shifts — each booth a quiet variation on a familiar form.

Under the surface, we kept the tech focused and serviceable. An iPhone handles camera and compute for excellent image quality and reliable connectivity. Remote diagnostics flag errors and low-paper states. Hinges and locks are hidden for a clean exterior.

The print itself is spare: momentje, month/year, and venue along the edge. No logos. No filters. Just the artifact. Sharing to the public feed is quick and optional, because the physical keepsake is the heart of it.

Why this approach? After years of using photo booths ourselves, we noticed the same pattern — bolted-on card readers, cluttered UX, and disposable design. We wanted something cohesive and deliberate, where technology hides behind craftsmanship, and the interaction feels simple, even a little magical. Subtle animations, warm light, a flattering hair light — small details that make the moment feel considered and human.

This is the kind of multidisciplinary problem we love: where software, hardware, and craft converge to feel inevitable.

Momentje was designed to catch a few sparks of connection and make them tangible.

A little moment, kept.

We're excited to share a behind-the-scenes look at our work-in-progress prototypes, developed in collaboration with Figure Plant and "plus and greater than." These interactive carts are designed for the children's section at the Deschutes County Library.

The Music Making Cart is a collaborative station that lets kids explore melody, rhythm, and improvised sounds. This cart is a symphony of custom electronics, midi controller, and 3D-printed supports.

The Dance + Play Cart offers two modes: a red-light green-light game and a simple music player, encouraging kids to get up and move.

What sets these projects apart is the focus on physical interfaces—buttons, knobs, and silhouetted light shapes—offering a tactile alternative to the conventional touchscreen experience.

Both prototypes are in the testing phase, and we can't wait to integrate them into the final casework. Stay tuned for more updates!

During a recent exploration of generative modeling, a class of machine learning techniques that uses AI to create images and videos, we were excited to experiment with tools like Stable Diffusion, Dall-E, and Midjourney. In just a short afternoon, we explored different animation techniques and created new looping animations for the three small video portals in our entryway.

While we didn't have a chance to refine the final output, the real focus of our exploration was on the tools themselves. We were impressed by the creative potential of generative modeling and can't wait to continue exploring its capabilities in the future.

Although our short project only scratched the surface of what's possible, we're excited to be at the forefront of this cutting-edge technology. With generative modeling, the possibilities are endless, and we're eager to see how it will transform the visual arts and design.

The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry’s Turbine Hall Curium has welcomed Sticky’s Light Chimes, where art and science work together to create something fun for people to enjoy. Go deep nerd and ponder its scientific elements (such as chromesthesia, musical scales, sensors, and network behaviors), or just enjoy the pretty lights and sounds. Either way, it’s sure to be a hit!

When the Port of Portland commissioned Sticky to create* Portaurora* for permanent installation at Portland International Airport, our goal was for travelers to be enchanted by this interactive art piece. We didn’t expect someone would love Portaurora so much, they’d want to bring it home with them.

But that’s what happened. So we’ve created Lil’ Aurora, a more intimate at-home version of the larger public art piece, which we’re installing in a private residence in Prague.

What special souvenir can we create for you?

From August 2021 through June 2022,* Light Chimes*, Sticky’s light- and-sound-art collaboration, was on display inside a historic, hundred-year old barn at the Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture. The Center hosted the installation to create a dialog between traditional crafts and new technology. Center staff were delighted to discover how visitors from the community, local schools, and universities, as well as artists from around the country, all responded to the playful interactive.

And the 2022 Oregon Heritage Excellence Award goes to … the Capitol History Gateway Project, which includes the Oregon State Capitol’s Welcome Center.

Designed by Sticky, the Welcome Center ensures visitors get the most out of their time in the Capitol building, while providing content that allows adults and kids experience over 170 cultural, heritage, and historical sites statewide – all featured in the Welcome Center interactives.

We were delighted when the High Desert Museum included Light Chimes, Sticky’s light-and-sound-art collaboration, as part of the immersive gallery experience they created for the museum’s Infinite Moment exhibition. Originally intended as a prelude to another immersive desert experience — Burning Man 2020 — the exhibition opened at the beginning of February 2020. Although Burning Man went virtual that year because of the pandemic, visitors to the High Desert Museum were able to experience *Light Chimes *in person for an extended period, through the beginning of 2021. It was definitely a year when people were looking for things to explore and enjoy, so we were glad to give High Desert Museum visitors this chance to play with light, color, and sound.

Discover the story of rodeo royalty with Sticky's in-person interactive tribute to War Paint, the World Renowned Saddle Bronc horse, at the Pendleton Round-Up and Happy Canyon Hall of Fame. Explore War Paint's life from his early days to his rodeo achievements, riders, and awards, and immerse yourself in his rich history and legendary talent.

War Paint was famous for his strength and powerful bucking abilities. As soon as he exploded out of the chute, he jumped high and kicked hard. Within the first three kicks, he went into his signature dive, which threw most cowboys off in just a few seconds. The interactive showcases War Paint's impressive bucking style, as well as his strong presence in the rodeo ring. The interactive also highlights the riders who faced War Paint in the ring, as well as the awards he won for his rodeo prowess.

The Benton County Historical Society's Corvallis Museum, located in a new LEED-certified building designed by Allied Works Architecture, offers visitors an immersive historical experience. The museum boasts a diverse collection of over 140,000 objects, including regional artifacts and art, international objects, and natural history specimens from the former Horner Museum at Oregon State University. With the help of Sticky, the museum has introduced interactive exhibits, such as an object viewer that lets visitors browse objects in whimsical categories, framed wall displays of curated historical photos that dynamically switch to new sets every few minutes, and simple touchscreen video players showcasing historical films. All these features aim to provide visitors with a deeper understanding of the rich history of Benton County.

Step into the past at the Moab Museum with several simple in-person interactive exhibits that Sticky helped create. Visitors discover the spirit and grit that powered Moab's growth. Explore the early settlers and their impact through farming, ranching, and mining. Learn about the river's significance and how migration shaped the town. Get a glimpse into life in early Moab, meet the key players, and discover how uranium mining changed everything.

We're never ones to opt out of making a fun game! Commissioned to develop a retro, arcade style game with modern mechanics we booted up Unity and punched this baby out! Complete with joysticks, leaderboards, and a catchy custom soundtrack.

Get in the XONE with our new interactive wall fixture. Stand the right distance away from the center sensor to match the colored LEDs approaching from all four corners.

Expanding on our existing art installation at the Portland International Airport; Portaurora now has a third alcove and features SOUND! Go down concourse D next time you’re flying and get swept away in our interactive light and sound exhibit.

A touchscreen interactive for the Oregon Music Hall of Fame is currently in development. As in most of our projects, everyone is working closely together to bring it to the finish line.

Casual Friday at Sticky Co. No, but seriously, we needed a team photo and what better way to show team spirit than to make up an impromptu work uniform? I’m sure these jumpsuits will make another appearance soon!

Stepping into Oregon history with AR! We’re using 2D photo detection to trigger 3D augmented reality.

Great reception last night at the Oregon Historical Society’s new exhibit:* 200 years of Oregon beer! *The crowd loved crafting their own beer styles with our interactive touchscreen.

Go team! A lot of blood, glitter and tears went into our new interactive light show at the Portland airport. Take a stroll between gates D-9 and D-10 and look up!

Airport ready. Installing a new light exhibit at PDX airport.

Photographing beer is no easy task, but it can be a lot of fun! Our task was to film a pint glass filling and emptying in a seamless loop as well as grab stills for our “Beer Styles” interactive. Our solution was to drill a hole in the bottom of a glass and insert a tube to drain the beer. The video is featured in the entrance of the new* 200 Years of Oregon Beer! *exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society. Check out our project page for all the details.

In development: A new interactive art installation soon to occupy a heavily populated public space.

Installing four new interactive touch screen games exploring Oregon history at the Oregon Historical Society.

Our recent Amsterdam visit was well timed. We had beautiful sunny weather and many things to see! We spent our time researching tech and interactive media in the many museums this city has to offer.

From concept to final product, Sticky created two custom video game suitable characters to promote a game development program. Bringing these characters to life required the use of many programs including Blender, Substance Painter and Marmoset ToolBag.

Prototyping phase: Tracking foot traffic in NE Portland. Are people trending east or west?

Sticky put together some sweet gaming influencer kits to send to some super lucky individuals around the world.

Interact with OSU history! This digital centerpiece allows you to navigate through the sights and sounds OSU’s rich history at the Oregon Historical Society.

Guests interact with Light Chimes. A colorful and harmonic experience responding to movement from the crowd below. Check out our Project page for more information about this awesome interactive art installation.

Pickathon 2017 gets a little brighter with Sticky Co's return of Light Chimes.

This old CRT monitor and video camera have been in a non-stop feedback loop since 2011. It’s colors and patterns very based on its mood. Today it feels….optimistic.

We partnered with our friends at exhibit-design firm Renate to help celebrate the life, legacy, and centennial birthday of America’s 35th President in the recent Oregon Historical Society exhibit High Hopes: The Journey of John F. Kennedy. To provide insight into the struggles John F. Kennedy faced during his presidency, Sticky designed and programmed an interactive iPad game that provides historical insight into the Cold War.

“EXCOMM: What’s Your Move?” is a touchscreen game based on “Milles Borne,” a French card game from 1954. Players represent The Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM), which advised President John F. Kennedy during his presidency. Throughout the game, players learn how the United States and the Soviet Union competed to dominate international affairs. The goal? Score 1,000 points before the USSR while learning about critical Cold War events—the Berlin crisis, the Cuban missile crisis, and the space race.

One of the best aspects of our business is the diversity of projects we get to tackle. Some of the most enjoyable projects provide us with opportunities to exercise our creativity and technology skills, make new connections, and add to the extensive and diverse array of public art in Portland.

The Portland Winter Light Festival, a community-wide celebration of light, was all that and more. The event focused on illuminating the mid-winter darkness with light installations, projections, and performances by Oregon artists.

We challenged ourselves to build an interactive installation that would provide a visual and melodic experience that would grow as more people participated. Cross-discipline collaboration with other artists opened us up to new ideas as different worlds came together. Portland band little hexes created a collection of melodies that each depicted a color of light, while TwentyFour7 constructed the frame that held the interactive elements together. Light Chimes, an 18-foot suspended installation that reacted to passersby with an array of colored lights and melodies, allowed visitors to create a vibrant and harmonic experience that followed them by simply walking under any of the 19 nodes.

Alex and Amanda discovered the wonders of illustrating in virtual reality! It’s quite an experience for accomplished artists and we couldn’t wait to try our 2D hand in a 3D environment.

Lukas Ketner brings his talents to our idea room, creating a mural on our wall for our upcoming studio party.

Beginning prototyping for a new installation for the Portland Winter Light Festival!

Longtime friends and collaborators Twenty Four 7 brought us in to build a complex series of interactives for one of AT&T’s flagship stores.

Visitors are encouraged to learn about AT&T’s endeavors on topics such as Women in Tech, Crowdsourcing Innovation, and Disaster Recovery. Each subject comes to life through a variety of means, from immense scrollable infographics to immersive image and video galleries to personal experiences—like taking a pledge to not text while driving or submitting a quote.

For the Documents of Democracy exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society, we built a lightweight game to engage visitors by testing their knowledge. After answering 20 questions in a variety of formats, in the shortest time possible, guests could enter their initials for display on the leaderboard.

The latest advances in virtual reality are truly amazing. But how do you show people what virtual reality is really like? If they watch output on a screen, it looks like a normal video game. And if they watch a person wearing VR gear… well, that’s just plain silly looking. What they need to see is both: the real-world transposed into the virtual world.

To do this, we isolated a live-action figure using a video camera and a green screen. Then, with special software support from VR and game developers, we captured the foreground and background layers of a game separately, which allowed us to composite the live camera footage in between. There are more complicated details, but after a lot of setup and calibration we were having a blast!

As you walk up our stairway, you’ll notice three intriguing curios mounted to the wall. These hand-carved wooden eyepieces invite you to take a peek. Enlarged through the focal lens, you’ll see a mysterious animation looping on a tiny 1.5” screen. What will it be? Come find out!

For the Oregon Historical Society's permanent exhibit Oregon Voices, we engineered six video players using an inexpensive Raspberry Pi network. To minimize noise, only one video plays at any given time, triggering the next in sequence upon completion. The video players also respond to a custom remote control that allows museum docents to mute or select specific videos. Additionally, we developed a set of three simple interactives about the people and land in Oregon.

Ever wondered about sheep in space? We did, and we did something about it. In this web game, all players have to do is tap to keep space sheep from smashing into space rocks.

Place: Framing the Oregon Landscape exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society brought together an impressive collection of artists to capture and interpret the landscape of Oregon through photography. In addition, the public was invited to be a part of the exhibit by contributing their own Instagram photos of the region’s dramatic landscapes using the hashtag #ohsplace. Sticky created two touchscreen displays for the exhibit space where these curated photos were featured in a slideshow. Visitors could also interrupt the slideshow and search the photos by username. The experience was especially fun for kids on field trips, who loved having their work selected and put on display.

If you’ve walked past the studio lately, you probably couldn’t help but notice our brand-new interactive signage. When people walk by the front window, their movement triggers the opening of six sets of curtains to reveal “STICKY,” spelled out in beautiful, custom ceramic letters, courtesy of our neighbors at Mudshark Studios.

With the boom in online retail showing no signs of slowing, it’s more important than ever for brick-and-mortar shops to consider how the best of digital marketing can translate in the real world. We’re using this window as an opportunity to explore just that: experimenting with all the ways interactivity can transform the potential of window displays for retailers. Whether we’re bringing a product to unexpected life or crafting a spectacle that’s impossible to ignore, we believe these types of experiences surprise and delight consumers while giving retailers an exciting new way to stand out.

Each September, employees from workplaces across Oregon compete by riding bikes to work, helping to reduce pollution and fuel usage while getting a little extra exercise.

The 2013 Bike Commute Challenge honored Sticky when we tied for first place in the small business category. This year, Sticky cyclists turned in a perfect score, with every employee riding to work for every commute, all month long. Not even the wettest September in Portland history could slow us down. (Thanks for the 4.38 inches, Typhoon Pabuk.)

And while perfection is mighty impressive, it’s nothing new for Sticky, who previously posted a perfect record in 2009. Still, we’re proud to be back on track!

When the Oregon Historical Society began organizing its exhibit Windows on America: The Challenges of Presidential Leadership, they wanted to include interactive content to draw visitors into the big heroic stories. Working in conjunction with Ancona + Associates, Inc., Sticky created engaging digital moments for the show.

For the final rich-media presentation, Sticky programmed four touchscreen displays, each focused on presidents from different eras. Gallery goers could swipe through documents, zoom in on details like John Hancock’s famous autograph, and listen to dramatized readings. Touchable technology gave visitors a compelling way to interact with curated presidential highlights.

Software meets hardware. Hi-tech plays with handcraft. This captivating gizmo is what Sticky is all about.

When it was time to replace our studio timepiece, we thought to ourselves: We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better, stronger, faster. We started experimenting with LED display tiles, and the Sticky Tessera was born.

The only thing traditional about our new interactive clock is its shape—everything else was up for grabs. Changing modes every 15 minutes, it visualizes time two ways: countdown style and particle mode. It also cycles through and displays local weather info and FourSquare icons for anyone who’s checked in at the studio.

We love finding unexpected ways to make information intake more fun, to visualize and broadcast content in new ways. Our experiments continue, with a focus on making social posts and check-ins more interactive.

We love to experiment—whether it’s reimagining the office clock, crafting our own beverages, or shooting a new kind of sizzle reel. Our own passion projects add to the creative mojo we bring to our client work. In this case, we combined a little live-action with a lot of Ghostbuster-style slime. The result? A branded piece we love, plus a nugget of know-how to share.