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.
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.
Apps
Software I built and shipped myself: BinderCurve, ACID2Reaper, PromptBoi, and the concepts that came before them.
Music
Producing as Gorf since 2003, with Denseware and SSATCY alongside. Forty-seven performances logged since 2004.
Press
Twelve awards and twenty-eight articles, from Fast Company and CityLab to CBC, Adobe and The Globe and Mail, and eighteen recommendations from the people I worked with.
About
A third-culture kid across seven cities, three wound-down ventures, and the values that survived all of it.
Contact
Studio projects, design leadership roles, music licensing and live bookings, speaking, or a plain hello.
Selected praise