Toronto · The Gorfed Network · est. 2002
A working archive of design, software, and sound.
I am Michael Duncan McArthur, an experience design leader in Toronto. For twenty-five years I have shaped digital products and services for global brands, shipped my own software, and released electronic music as Gorf. This domain has kept the receipts since 2002.
By the numbers
Launchpad
Where to go next
Design
Twenty-five years of UX strategy and delivery, including eight at TD Invent’s Human-Centered Design Practice.
EnterApps
Software I built and shipped myself: BinderCurve, ACID2Reaper, PromptBoi, and the concepts that came before them.
EnterMusic
Producing as Gorf since 2003, with Denseware and SSATCY alongside. Forty-seven performances logged since 2004.
EnterPress
Twelve awards and twenty-eight articles, from Fast Company and CityLab to CBC, Adobe and The Globe and Mail.
EnterAbout
A third-culture kid across seven cities, three wound-down ventures, and the values that survived all of it.
EnterContact
Studio projects, design leadership roles, music licensing, DJ and live bookings, speaking, or a plain hello.
EnterSelected proof