Del Buico Cookbook
01 — Cooking
Immortalizing the Family Cookbook
Forty-seven family recipes pulled out of a shoebox of index cards and into one site built to be cooked from, not just admired — so the food outlives the handwriting.
Off the Clock
The ideas I frame when no one asked me to.
The projects I make purely for the fun of it — cooking, baking, rooms I actually live in, and a few games I take far too seriously. No brief, no client, no deadline. Just the pleasure of making something well.
Pan de Jamón
02 — Branding
Pan de Jamón, taken seriously
A full brand and packaging system for a Venezuelan holiday bread, treated with the same rigor as a client engagement — because the baking earns it.
A Phoenix Home
03 — Spaces
A Phoenix Home, inside and out
Interior and landscape design for a home in Phoenix. The brief was restraint: let the architecture and the desert do the talking, and design only what earns its place.
Stardew Calculator
04 — Tools
The Stardew Profit Calculator
A planting tool that answers the only question that matters before the season ends: given the days left, what crop is actually worth the soil? A spreadsheet, rebuilt as an app.
Factory Plans
05 — Systems
Satisfactory Factory Planning
FICSIT Personnel Evaluation: Pioneer demonstrates efficient ratios, disciplined logistics, and an acceptable quantity of conveyor spaghetti. Recommendation for promotion to Design Strategist: pending review.
Captures pending
06 — Practice
Designing With Claude, and Finally Sounding Like Myself
Teaching myself to design alongside AI by doing the actual work in public — rewriting the case studies on this site and directing every page build — and finding, somewhere in the volume, an aesthetic that was mine the whole time. Ongoing, and actively unfinished.