ABOUT THE LAB
a place for things
before the category.
fbc.ad is Fabric’s public workshop: a durable home for experiments, games, prototypes, project histories and the questions around them.
What this site is for
fabri.cc is the clearer ecosystem map. Fabric Portland is the agency. Product domains explain products. fbc.ad is allowed to be messier: it can show a prototype before it has a business model, preserve the story of a tool after it graduates, and publish thinking that crosses more than one project.
That means this site is not a roadmap and it is not a promise that every prototype will become a product. The status label is part of the page.
Status means something
ACTIVE EXPERIMENTPublic work that is still testing a premise.
PLAYABLEA game you can use now, even if the surrounding platform is evolving.
BETAFunctional, public enough to try, and still changing materially.
PROTOTYPEAn interface or idea under construction; expect rough edges.
GRADUATEDA project that now has a dedicated product home.
LIVE SERVICEA current service in the wider Fabric ecosystem.
ONE ECOSYSTEM, DIFFERENT JOBS