About
Brendan Dawes is a UK based designer and artist
My name is Brendan Dawes. I'm an artist and designer exploring the interaction of objects, people, art and technology using an eclectic mix of analog and digital materials.
Working with form and code, my work is often born from data and realised as interactive installations, electronic objects, online experiences, data visualisations, print advertising and digital campaigns.
I create this work for myself and for various global brands including Airbnb, Twitter, PWC, Google, Seagate, BBC, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Atlantic, Bravo, M&C Saatchi, EE, Arup, Intel, Cancer Research UK, Mailchimp and many others.
Highlights include a story-telling installation at the Sundance Film Festival for Airbnb, a generative installation for Twitter creating real-time digital creatures in response to tweets, a print campaign for EE visualising social media traffic in eleven UK cities captured over three days, a 360 degree video projection for Platts displaying the journey of over 3000 ships as well as work now part of the permanent collection at MoMA in New York, creating a visual fingerprint of an entire movie.
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A full biography can be found here
Created in 2017
Testimonials
Watching ‘Fermata’ develop from it’s earliest iterations, through to the final piece on screen now, has been a revelation to us. The final piece bears testament to the collaborative journey that Bruntwood have been on with Brendan, and I wouldn’t hesitate in working with him again if the opportunity arose. — Simon Bushell, Design Coordinator, Bruntwood
Working with Brendan on our project was a true collaboration. Not only did he answer the brief, but he provided creative input, a lot of thinking and managed to improve the work at every stage. The result is something the client loves and one of my personal favourite bits of Peter and Paul commissioned work. — Lee Davies, Creative Director, Peter and Paul
Our work with Brendan helped to transform our branding and, in turn, how we communicate with our prospective clients. Brendan's ability to grasp our complex data concepts and transform them into simple and communicative visuals was incredible and, as a result, we now use one of these stunning visuals as our logo. — Edwina Dunn, CEO, Starcount
At PSLIVE Brendan Dawes took a huge subset of our data and created art. The @TheNextWeb then created a lovely article. All of it amazing — Nate Walkingshaw, Head of Experience, Pluralsight
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
Stories hidden in Data Creative Bloq
Data Stream Day BBC Radio 4
Beyond The Chart Data Stories
Interview on the This is HCD podcast
Exhibitions
Big Bang Data / Artscience Museum / Singapore / 2016
Big Bang Data / Espacio Fundación Telefónica / Santiago / 2016
Impression 3D / Le Lieu Du Design / Paris / 2016
Big Bang Data / Somerset House / London / 2015
re_manufactum / Szczecin / 2015
Designing with Data / Hyundai Card Design Library + MoMA / Seoul / 2015
Big Bang Data / Buenos Aires / 2015
Big Bang Data / CCCB / Madrid / 2015
Designer Data / National Centre for Craft and Design / Lincolnshire / 2014
Big Bang Data / CCCB / Barcelona / 2014
Dot Dot Dot / Sheffield Institute of Arts / Sheffield / 2013
Cinema Redux / Richard Goodall Gallery / Manchester / 2012
Talk to Me / MoMA / New York / 2010
Action! Design Over Time / MoMA / New York / 2010
Design and the Elastic Mind / MoMA / New York / 2008
Publications
My 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. 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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