BIGGFISH

My Glass Cookbook

Studio composite of the MGC Portal, Palette, Template Studio and Kiln Schedule Designer across four devices beside glass samples and a pattern

A connected visual platform for glass artists: learning, material discovery, color matching, template planning, kiln schedules and studio records around a complex specialist field.

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Across the family

Specialist material knowledge becomes a working system

The family views show how the tools sit together: Portal for learning and resources, Palette for colour and material choices, Template Studio for pattern planning, Kiln Schedule Designer for firing schedules and the App for mobile studio records.

Palette Lion project on a realistic unbranded all-in-one desktop against seamless white
Template Studio Owl project on a realistic unbranded all-in-one desktop against seamless white
Kiln Schedule Designer Candy Bowls schedule on a realistic tablet and phone against seamless black

Make a technical firing plan easier to read before you use it.

MGC Portal on a realistically scaled phone, portrait tablet and 27-inch desktop against seamless white
Lion palette on white

01 One connected practice

Glass artists move between knowledge, products, colour, templates and firing

My Glass Cookbook brings those parts of the practice together. An artist can learn through the Portal, browse material references, plan colour in Palette, develop a pattern in Template Studio, prepare a kiln schedule and keep useful studio records close at hand.

Each tool has a focused job, but the family shares a common understanding of how glass work happens and how exact products, images and decisions need to stay connected.

Who it is for
Glass artists, learners, instructors and partners working with specialist materials, product data and studio workflows.
What BIGGFISH brought
Visual-platform strategy · Product definition · UX/UI · Build · Content systems
Where it is now
Live · in active development; each tool has its own release stage.

Product index

Five focused tools across one material platform

Artists can enter at any point. This map shows the kinds of work the family supports rather than prescribing one fixed workflow.

  1. 01LearnPractical knowledge and resources
  2. 02Choose colourColour and material planning
  3. 03Design patternsPattern and layout planning
  4. 04Plan firingKiln schedules and monitoring
  5. 05Keep referencesProjects, tools and studio records

02 Product family

Five distinct tools, one connected information architecture

Choose a tool to see the problem it solves, the collection or workflow it organizes and the working interface behind it.

MGC Portal on a 16:9 desktop monitor in a restrained modern glass studio
Current MGC Portal Learn page with guides, audio controls and topic filters

Browse learning material by topic instead of hunting through scattered links.

Current MGC Portal Community directory with glass organizations, locations and category filters

Find stores, museums, schools and glass-community resources by place and type.

Portal on desktop

MGC Portal

A free learning and resource hub for glass artists, with links to hundreds of videos, articles, manufacturer resources, catalogs, classes and community places around the world.

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Palette Peacock colour-planning workspace on a realistic laptop beside a compact mounted glass sample set
Palette glass-matching workspace on a large monitor in a restrained contemporary glass studio
Palette Lion project on a realistic unbranded all-in-one desktop against seamless white
Peacock colour lab

Palette

A planning tool for exploring glass colour, compatibility and material choices before work moves to the bench. Palette connects to more than 2,400 unique glasses from 10 fused and stained-glass manufacturers.

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Template Studio Owl project on a large 16:9 monitor in a restrained contemporary glass studio
Template Studio Owl project on a realistic unbranded all-in-one desktop against seamless white
Template Studio Fox project on a realistic laptop beside its matching paper pattern
Owl workspace in the studio

Template Studio

A digital workflow for planning practical glass layouts and stained-glass template work.

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Kiln Schedule Designer on a tablet beside a closed cool-looking kiln
Kiln Schedule Designer on a phone beside a closed cool-looking kiln
Kiln Schedule Designer on a portrait tablet beside a finished glass bowl and closed kiln
Tablet beside a closed kiln

Kiln Schedule Designer

A clearer way to configure, read and communicate technical glass firing schedules.

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My Glass Cookbook App overview showing its studio reference areas

Keep practical studio references close at hand.

My Glass Cookbook App schedules library on a phone screen

Save the firing knowledge you will need again.

My Glass Cookbook App molds library on a phone screen

Make equipment records easier to recognize and reuse.

Original app overview

Keep practical studio references close at hand.

My Glass Cookbook App

A mobile-oriented studio reference app for preserving project, schedule, mold, kiln, dealer and reference workflows.

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03 What BIGGFISH brought

One connected platform family, many kinds of work

BIGGFISH shapes the products, designs their interfaces, organizes the underlying content and data, and builds the working software.

Information architecture

Shape how learning content, material data, images and studio tasks fit the glass-artist audience and the wider family.

Interface and visualization

Design usable interfaces for specialist tasks: color, layout, schedules, exact products and studio records.

Implementation

Build and maintain working products, websites, data structures, videos and visual assets.

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