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 [...]
On Wednesday, the AIGA Seattle co-sponsored a screening of Gary Hustwit’s (Helvetica) new film Objectified. The turnout was huge. Nearly the entire Cinerama theater in downtown Seattle was packed with design nerds of every flavor. The film itself was quite good, though some of the criticisms on the content originality are valid. I felt as [...]
I’m proud to announce that I’ll be joining the Seattle AIGA board of directors for the upcoming term as the Experience Design Community Director. Over the last 18 months, my involvement with the AIGA has increased dramatically, from designing event materials to helping plan events like HIVE. I’m excited to take it further by joining [...]