CanUX (a Microsoft Developer Network blog) is a blog that focuses on the user experience community in Canada. Recently they took a look at me and some of my work, specifically my final project, the Organic Web.
The article can be found here. In the article I talk briefly about my passions as a designer and where I am headed in the future. Also in the article is a video that demonstrates some of the core concepts behind the Organic Information Visualization System I developed, (the system that the Organic Web demo application is built on).
A special thanks to CanUX for giving me the opportunity to share my work!
I created a type specimen showcasing Wim Crouwel’s “New Alphabet”. For the piece, I brought in another functional digital type “OCR Std”, to contrast “New Alphabet”, and to also highlight the similarities between the two eras of functional digital type. I then created a site map of The Foundry’s website and all of its internal file assets within that domain using Processing. The Foundry is the only foundry I have found that digitized Wim Crouwel’s type. All of the files on this site are linked to each other ultimately by the single root node, “/”.
I am trying to communicate the parallel with Wim Crouwel and this root node. Virtually all of digital type that followed are connected to “New Alphabet” by some avenue or other. Just like the root directory, Wim Crouwel is the node that links all other functional digital type to each other, and all of them share the same concepts and approach in their design and function.
I used Processing to extrapolate the filenames and linkage properties to map out the connection between all of the files, I had to play with the layout a bit, but it was mostly done in Processing and Illustrator. Let me know what you think!
It’s always great to see work from former faculty members and alumni. Check out the work from Todd Smith, and DD07 alumni Boca and Ryan Uhrich at Thank You.
Also, you should check out the Mar/Apr 2008 issue of Applied Arts. Jeff Greenberg from DD06, branding instructor Eric Karjaluoto, and Final Project advisors Cosmo Campbell, Alex Beim, Sergio Toporek, Wil Arndt have all been honoured for their various interactive design projects.
Let’s show our support for Ryan and Boca from DD07. Their term 4 piece is a nominee in the category of Best Animated Video for the Yahoo! Video Awards. We have until Friday, March 21 to vote.
And don’t forget about Simon’s piece for the “See What’s Possible” challenge.
Here it is. the much anticipated final Project. After 4 months of hard work you can finally check it out here at pablosgarden.com.
Pablo’s garden is a website where users can log in and express themselves as an artist, designer or however they feel. Users can interact and draw into the garden as well as have the power to vote on drawings.
The garden gives the opportunity for users to collaborate and draw pieces influenced by each-other. They can build on each others work and create combined works of art.
If you want to know more about my project you can download my case study here.
British Columbia design students are being invited to compete to create a new logo for the government’s LiveSmart BC climate action programs…Click here
Thanks to Danny’s post about the “See What’s Possible” competition. It inspired me to experiment and I created 2 works that can be viewed either forward or in reverse. As I was making them I realized due to the short length it would be sweet to make them a perfect loop. So out of the 2 I submitted 4. It is a shame what compression for YouTube or Revver does to bright colors, so please watch the high res versions of each if you are interested in quality. ( I found Revver to have a bit better compression than YouTube ).
Here is the link to my page on the Cut&Paste site: http://swp.cutandpaste.com/user/370 . Or Search SymbioSonic if that doesn’t work. In the description of each vid is a link to the High-Res version of each. Please remember to vote if your stoked.
I also took the time to load a full loop of each (2 fwd. + 2 bak.). There are Hi-Res and Highest-Res links for both. I’ll post the Hi-Res of each here, just for you kids. ; )
It’s all based on the theme of Visionary Artwork which I do with many mediums: www.symbiosonic.com
Music clips are tweaks of songs by my lovely, Andrea Drury.
( I’ve learned more about the H264 compression out of After Effects,, it works well but is really finicky, I’ll get that thread going soon, I’m sure it will be interesting and helpful)
Thanks for attending assembly today –I enjoyed speaking with some of you after my talk!
I just wanted to put a shout out about the Beta User pool at Rouxbe. If you think you could be good at trying out the site experience and providing objective feedback, then hit me back and let’s chat about setting you up with access. gdiesh (a) rouxbe.com.
Never before have Bridesmaids been so important to VFS, until a motion graphics piece from it’s students make it into Motionographer in record time. What has it been, a couple weeks?
Few pretty cool videos I saw on this site… right on the front page, check out:
The Presets - a human kaleidoscope music video, awesome example playing with layer and timing of live video (you can skip the first half….)
Sneaux - always love stop motion myself, and this is one of the finest I’ve seen! (just the shadow of the camera….)
Hi guys! We’ve been asked by a lot of people in the past couple of day where was our Term 3 Infographic. We took a couple of days to refine it and it’s now online for your viewing pleasure. click on the thumbnail below to view the video and don’t hesitage to visit our blogs and leave comments.
It’s funny when they (faculty) tell you stuff like “Network, Network, join a forum, post your stuff on blogs…” well I just posted a link on the mograph forum yesterday and there you go, one day later, somebody writes an article about it!
