I’ve just returned from having the pleasure of spending over a week in New York City. My time there was spent finalizing an exhibit installation at the Empire State Building aimed at educating the visiting public on the great efforts the building has undertook to retrofit it’s existing systems, aiming for building-wide gains in energy efficiency. [...]
Through word of mouth and a few convincing testimonials, I had decided to register for the Seattle based Metrix Create:Space electronics workshop. Fifty dollars and 3 hours turned out to be a very enjoyable hands-on learning experience. Most of my involvement with EE has been following how-to guides and reading theory, which doesn’t really apply [...]
After an amazing and formative six years in Seattle a new opportunity has arisen that will bring me to the great city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. On September 1st I will begin working as an assistant research and graduate candidate at the MIT Media Lab, studying under Dr.Hiroshi Ishii & the Tangible Media Group. New Directions: [...]
What happens when you give 40 people flashcards of mixed sensors, actuators and display technologies and ask them to provide insights on how to improve a randomly selected public space? A lot, actually. Today during a scheduled 30-minutes work session, I presented my team with this exact challenge. Groups of 4 were given a stack [...]
A few weekends back, a group of us took a weekend trip down to portland. Nate Young put together this (cheesy, in his words – awesome in mine) video of all of us at work relaxing. Happy birthday, Joseph King. 30 is the new 20.
I’ve thought a lot about the creative process being subject to fatigue when projects carry on too long. Unsurprisingly, some of the most rewarding work I’ve done has been squeezed through the proverbial “we-need-it-done-yesterday” time vortex. You’re forced to listen to your instincts – you go with your gut. Maybe (just maybe) it’s that having [...]
A snapshot of the soon-to-debut Microsoft Nucleus at CES 2010. The circular space features physical buttons that allow visitors to participate in a generative music experience – each button enables new sounds and projected visualizations within the space. Some really cool stuff happening here, follow up video & making of will be posted when the [...]
A year ends, and a new year begins. Like clockwork I feel the need to reflect. For me, 2009 was a good year. I spent a lot of time & energy readjusting my lifestyle and habits to coincide with an ever demanding work and professional schedule. The work I was able to do was new [...]
We would like to thank everyone who attended HIVE 5 with Hornall Anderson and AIGA Seattle. The very-much-oversold event was a clear indication of the energy and commitment the Seattle community holds for experience design. Additional thanks are in order for both Chris Monberg and Ashley Arhart who delivered great discussions on interaction, experience and [...]
Sometimes it’s about having fun. For the 2009 AIGA Seattle studio tours, we teamed up with 3 of the participating studios (HL2, Pop, Methodologie) to visualize a common twitter hash trend (#studiotours). Effectively using Twitter as our database framework, each studio was responsible for their own visualization needing only to source #studiotours for data. Our [...]