Stephen James Kranz · Oakland, California

Caliper & Crayon

Technical and creative storytelling. Video, photography, illustration, books and process design for engineering teams.

Selected work

All work
Front cover: ARCHIE, Gold in the Fire, Archie I. Floyd, Jr., edited by Stephen J. Kranz

Archie: Gold in the Fire

A memoir I rescued, typeset and published for a man I never met.

Cover: Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer, the machine photographed against black

Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer

A visual tour of a nineteenth-century machine that performs Fourier analysis. I photographed and designed the book.

The full set of miniature acrylic chess pieces in a row

Laser-cutter chess pieces

Three-dimensional chess pieces from a tool built to cut flat shapes.