Forge & Verse

The studio

Work with weight.
Words with an edge.

An independent design studio creating original work for professionals behind consequential systems, investigations, evidence, and service.

Forge and Verse anvil and quill emblem

Forge & Verse

The work comes first.

Forge & Verse creates art, writing, free digital releases, tactile tools, and practical objects for the people who examine, protect, preserve, and defend.

The anvil represents pressure, discipline, and craft. The quill represents language, judgment, and the ability to give difficult work a voice.

The studio sits where those ideas meet.

A piece may begin as an essay, a line heard after a long shift, a workflow that deserves a better page, a physical habit the software world has ignored, or a joke that makes sense only to the people in the room.

Some work belongs on a screen. Some needs ink, weight, texture, or a place on the wall. A useful release should fit the person and the moment instead of forcing both into the newest interface. The form changes. The respect for the person using it does not.

What leaves the studio

Made for the bench, the desk, and the wall.

Each form has a different job. None exists only to carry a logo.

At the bench

Useful releases

Forms, continuity aids, templates, and paper tools that make a real handoff or working moment clearer.

See free works
At the desk

Tactile objects

Notebooks, pads, and objects for people who still find clarity in a pen, a page, and a physical ritual.

See the notebook study

Tactile by choice

Not every thought wants to begin at a keyboard.

Some people map a problem by hand. They remember the shape of a page, the pressure of a pen, and the moment a difficult idea becomes visible in ink.

Paper does not replace the digital record. It gives thinking, continuity, and reflection a physical place before the work returns to the system.

Founded from the work

Practitioner made

Forge & Verse was founded by Matthew McBride, a law-enforcement technology and digital-forensics practitioner whose work includes digital evidence, property and evidence operations, technical systems, and direct support for investigations.

The studio's point of view comes from direct work with the people, systems, and responsibilities it depicts.