fshlabs
Ideas are bubblin'
Ideas are bubblin'
Ideas are bubblin'
The experimental bench. A space for prototypes, creative detours, and ideas that don’t yet know what they want to be.
Olive Ops
Ideas are bubblin'
Ideas are bubblin'
A fshlabs experiment
What it explores:
How far a group of olives will go to infiltrate perfectly good food.
What it is:
A covert culinary operation led by Captain Kalamata and his squad — Pip, Slips, and the Stuffed Twins. Each mission blends humour, cinematic tension, and a touch of absurd heroism. It’s storytelling disguised as espionage,
A fshlabs experiment
What it explores:
How far a group of olives will go to infiltrate perfectly good food.
What it is:
A covert culinary operation led by Captain Kalamata and his squad — Pip, Slips, and the Stuffed Twins. Each mission blends humour, cinematic tension, and a touch of absurd heroism. It’s storytelling disguised as espionage, served with a wink.
Why it lives in fshlabs:
It’s a living experiment in character design and tonal play — testing how far everyday objects can stretch into narrative worlds. Olive Ops captures the fshlabs spirit of curiosity, parody, and creative invention.
Status: active deployment
Category: experimental storytelling
Spirit: bold, mischievous, quietly heroic
The Outliners
A fshlabs experiment
What it explores:
What happens to the characters who live in the margins.
What it is:
A playful exploration of narrative edges — half‑formed figures, discarded doodles, and almost‑ideas that gather together and start building a world of their own. They’re curious, stubborn, and wonderfully unfinished.
Why it lives in fshl
A fshlabs experiment
What it explores:
What happens to the characters who live in the margins.
What it is:
A playful exploration of narrative edges — half‑formed figures, discarded doodles, and almost‑ideas that gather together and start building a world of their own. They’re curious, stubborn, and wonderfully unfinished.
Why it lives in fshlabs:
It’s a living testbed for character design, story mechanics, and the creative magic that happens when you let the “not‑quite‑right” things lead the way.
Status: evolving
Category: experimental storytelling
Spirit: odd, warm, quietly rebellious
REEF
A fshlabs experiment
What it explores:
Workplace behaviour, office politics and the strange little rituals of working life — viewed through the reassuringly ridiculous lens of an underwater creative agency.
What it is:
An evolving satirical world of aquatic employees, internal memos, difficult clients, questionable management decisions a
A fshlabs experiment
What it explores:
Workplace behaviour, office politics and the strange little rituals of working life — viewed through the reassuringly ridiculous lens of an underwater creative agency.
What it is:
An evolving satirical world of aquatic employees, internal memos, difficult clients, questionable management decisions and everyday office life beneath the surface.
Why it lives in fshlabs:
REEF is still discovering what it wants to become — characters are developing, the office is growing, and its stories and formats are emerging organically.
Status: evolving
The agency is staffed. The memos have started. The office is taking shape. Nobody appears entirely sure who’s actually in charge. Which feels promising. 😎