Craft & AI
Craft leads.
AI joins in.
Colorworks is a design studio for joyful, color-filled work: hand-drawn patterns, patterns set in motion, and tools like Roll & Do, made with AI as an everyday collaborator.
Founded by designer Christine Kistner, with 15+ years in motion, video, and print, the studio shares its finished pieces and the process behind them.
Explore the studio
Inside the practice
What we've been
working on
Patterns drawn by hand, and some that move. An app built with AI. Drawings made just because. Come take a look around.
Where the two halves meet
Patterns,
set in motion.
Most pattern designers don't animate, and most motion designers don't draw surface patterns. I do both, so my patterns don't have to stay still.
Hand-drawn repeats, animated into seamless loops, sit alongside studies in directing animation with AI and code.
See the motion work
A personal idea, brought to life
A gentler way
to get started.
Roll & Do began with movable sticky tabs and a physical die. Now it's a task and hobby app for the days when choosing is the hardest part.
Pick the time you have. Roll among six options. Begin.
Discover Roll & Do Read the project story →
Drawing, repetition, possibility
Color, collected.
Patterns, in play.
Leaves, seashells, fish, and familiar shapes become something new when they find their rhythm.
Explore my hand-drawn collections and color variations, alongside a curated collection of AI-assisted designs: 3,621 generated, thirty kept.
New this October: seventeen of them, six drawn by hand, are now throw pillows in the shop.
The hand-drawn collection Explore all patterns →
New in the shop
Patterns you can
live with.
Seventeen designs, six of them drawn by hand, now on throw pillows and covers. Joyful home décor to brighten your space!
For the joy of it
Follow a line.
See where it goes.
Custom coloring pages, little squares of ColorStrips, and faces with a mind of their own. Personal projects that leave room for a little play.
Explore Passion Projects
The marks behind the page
A little line goes a long way.
The waves, geometry, and floral details woven through this site come from my ColorStrips drawings. Small squares of art, finding new places to play.
Explore the original drawings →
The person behind the practice
Hi, I'm Christine.
15+ years of motion, video, and print design, now meeting my love of drawing: little squares of art, patterns that move, and apps you can use.
AI is a daily collaborator in my studio. The eye, the choices, and the curiosity stay mine.