About
Brendan Dawes is a UK based designer and artist
Brendan Dawes is a UK based designer and artist exploring the interaction of objects, people, technology and art using form and code with an eclectic mix of digital and analogue materials. Author of two books on interaction design, his work is featured in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art and has been honoured in awards including Fast Company Innovation by Design, Information is Beautiful and D&AD. Clients include Airbnb, Google, Twitter, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Intel, Cancer Research UK, Mailchimp, M&C Saatcci, EE, Arup.
A full biography can be found here
Created in 2017
Press Coverage
Visualizing Data With 3D Printing A Chat With Brendan Dawes Forbes
The Age of Hard and Soft Interview With Designer Brendan Dawes On Six Monkeys Image Source
Brendan Dawes Sharing Your Work Make
Artist Brendan Dawes selects his top 5 sources of inspiration Somerset House
An iOS App That Freezes Moments - A Chat With Kennedy's Brendan Dawes Forbes
Interview with Brendan Dawes FormFiftyFive
Audio interview for Lecture in Progress
Exhibitions
Design and the Elastic Mind / MoMA / New York / 2008
Action! Design Over Time / MoMA / New York / 2010
Talk to Me / MoMA / New York / 2010
Cinema Redux / Richard Goodall Gallery / Manchester / 2012
Dot Dot Dot / Sheffield Institute of Arts / Sheffield / 2013
Big Bang Data / CCCB / Barcelona / 2014
Designer Data / National Centre for Craft and Design / Lincolnshire / 2014
Big Bang Data / CCCB / Madrid / 2015
Big Bang Data / Buenos Aires / 2015
Designing with Data / Hyundai Card Design Library + MoMA / Seoul / 2015
re_manufactum / Szczecin / 2015
Big Bang Data / Somerset House / London / 2015
Impression 3D / Le Lieu Du Design / Paris / 2016
Big Bang Data / Espacio Fundación Telefónica / Santiago / 2016
Big Bang Data / Artscience Museum / Singapore / 2016
Publications
Brendan’s work has been featured in numerous journals including idN, Creative Review, MacUser, Computer Arts, Create, Wired, Eye, The Guardian, Forbes, Fast Company, The Verge, The Times, Communications Arts and was interviewed by Computer Arts in December 2008 for their "Design Icon" series. He has also been featured in various books including:
The Book of Circles / Princeton Architectural Press / 2017
Thoughts on Information Design / Lars Muller Publishing / 2014
Infographics - Designing and Visualising Data / Promopress / 2014
Play Matters / MIT Press / 2014
Talk to Me / MoMA / 2010
Design and the Elastic Mind / MoMA / 2008
Analog In, Digital Out / New Riders / 2006
The Digital Canvas / Abrams Studio / 2006
Personal Web Sites / Rockport / 2002
Drag Slide Fade / New Riders / 2001
In Your Face Too - the best of interactive interface design / Rockport / 2000
New Masters of Flash / Friends of Ed / 2000
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