The Knife, Classified was a semester-long process-driven project for Processes and Design Theory, where every week we submitted a new layer of work such as research, interviews, field notes, and visual tests. The project began as an attempt to document “process,” but quickly became an ethnographic deep dive into the knife-making community and how their work is misunderstood from the outside. We studied the topic from multiple angles, including legislation, public perception, and platform “shadow-ban” dynamics, then combined that research with interview analysis and close observation of knife forms and blade details. The outcome is a designed taxonomy and publication that organizes the knife through form, use, and history, structured into sections like Editorial Note, Legislation, Shadow-Ban, History, Tools, Weapons, and Definitions, created as a clear resource meant to give something back to the community we learned from. The goal ofthe Taxonomy was to