May 2012
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March 2012
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Personal Project: Rehearsal Dinner Invite
Recently my parents commissioned me to design the rehearsal dinner invite for my brother’s wedding. Rather than putting something together in entirely in Photoshop, I decided to go with something code-base, and wound up using a flocking algorithm I’d programmed some months ago in OpenFrameworks (C++). I tweaked the parameters numerous times, running the program and printing at each...
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Touchscreen Installation in Three.js at MWC2012
I designed and programmed this piece using Three.js library (WebGL) running in Chrome browser. It was made for client, Electroland, as part of a multi-paneled, brand-engaging piece for the Android Exhibition, Mobile World Congress 2012, Barcelona.
Afterwards I walked around the event to check out some of the latest mobile gadgets, including the new HTC One and Motorola Defy Mini. It was...
February 2012
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Recalling Radio-This-Batcher : How I Became an...
In 2005 I was working as a sound editor on the PlayStation 2 game, “Unreal Championship 2,” at Technicolor Interactive in Burbank. Months earlier I had finished editing dialog on a different Xbox title, “Jade Empire,” that set the current record of lines of dialog in a game, at just over 12,000 lines. Dialog editing is not fun. The sound editor is handed a script of lines that has been...
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Interaction Designing with Code : Preface
The software tools of the Interaction Design field, specifically the design of applications for spaces, non-consumer facing post-production tools, and the array of screen-ready digital devices, that access content running directly on the web or through downloadable native applications, are rapidly changing. Some tried-and-true best practices and deliverables of the field survive, while others...
October 2011
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September 2011
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June 2011
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On Designing Behind the Curtain
On a recent interaction design mailing list to which I subscribe, someone launched an extensive thread with this post:
As an Interaction Designer I think it’s a foundamental matter to have a deep knowledge of “how it works behind the scenes” what we design for people to use.
The question is: which language (HTML, Java, Javascript, DHTML…) do you think an Interaction...
PushPopDesign is Looking for a User Interface/...
I currently lead up a small design firm of sorts. We are positioned in a unique space, in that we perform the following three functions:
UI/ UX design for mobile, web and desktop applications
Creative coding for commercials, print and installations (specifically using OpenFrameworks and Processing)
Sound design for a variety of media
I’d contemplated phasing one or two of these areas...
April 2011
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WatchNew music news for me. My friend Eric was kind enough to feature three Lordx tracks on a mini-documentary about glassblower, Kiva Ford. Tracks include the recent “Sleepwalker (Lordx covers Battle Tapes),” older “Climbing out of it,” and “Seep.” Look for that first track on the upcoming Battle Tapes Sleepwalker EP.
The...
March 2011
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February 2011
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December 2010
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November 2010
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WatchMy Vimeo video “Starling Flock at the Vatican” was recently featured in a flocking tutorial for Cinder. Until now I’d never really paid much much attention to my Vimeo stream, but decided it was time to start updating it with code art explorations on a more regular basis. This video is my first effort in that direction.
Celestial clusters form from trails of particles with a...
October 2010
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For the past couple months I’ve had an idea for a book about creative people who make calculated compromises in their lives to achieve economic success on a personal level, but also to affect social change. The choice to do something creative as a part of one’s livelihood is rarely to simply make a buck. To the artist, money is often only a fortunate byproduct of artistic success, provided by...
September 2010
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Barcelona: Day 1
I have not slept in an actual bed for two nights. Last night I was on a red-eye flight from Washington to Copenhagen. The night before I had been packing up all my things in Venice Beach all night. The days in between were filled with plane-hopping with intermittent naps between in-flight films—just enough to keep me from passing out from exhaustion.
At noon today I finally made it into...
August 2010
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December 2009
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