Last Tuesday 19th Feb I had the pleasure of attending the launch party for Design and the Elastic Mind at MoMA where Cinema Redux is one of the 200 featured exhibits in this amazing new exhibition.
I thought there may be a few hundred people at the launch night - turned out there was more […]
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“If you look like your passport photo, you’re too ill to travel.” — Will Kommen
On February 8th I’ll be speaking at The Lighthouse in Glasgow for Urban Learning Space. This will be my first trip to Glasgow so I’m looking forward to seeing the city.
Then on February 19th it’s off to my all-time favorite city, […]
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Over the last seven years or so I’ve been lucky enough to speak at some great design conferences, including Flashforward 2000 in New York featuring a live performance by Run DMC! But I have to say having just come back from Brighton, this year’s Flash on the Beach was without question the best conference […]
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Ryan Carson, he of Future Of Web Apps fame, not to mention Dropsend, BD4D et al will be in Manchester tonight, August 16th hosting an evening away from laptops as part of the FOWA roadtrips.
It’s billed as a good old fashioned knees up and a chance to meet like minded web professionals and other […]
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Cinema Redux, my project that attempts to distill whole movies into a single image, will by featured as part of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in February 2008.
Design and the Elastic Mind “focuses on designers’ ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores, changes which […]
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My publishers, New Riders, are putting on a great little web design conference called “Voices That Matter” happening in San Francisco from October 22nd till October 25th 2007.
Along side the likes of Jeffrey Zeldman, Andy Clarke, Jeremy Keith and Steve Krug, to name just a few, I’ll be doing a little session about […]
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The day following Hillman Curtis’ lecture for D&AD in Manchester, myself and Hillman will be speaking at Adobe Live in London on June 6th. I’ll be talking about how we at mN approach the idea of interactive design, as well as maybe giving the odd book away!
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As I write this I’m sat at the airport waiting for my flight to Toronto for FITC. It’s been a few years since I’ve spoken at this conference so I’m looking forward to seeing howing things have changed (I’ve heard good things), catching up with some old friends, and meeting new ones.
My schedule is […]
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As part of D&AD’s series of events in the Northwest Hillman Curtis will be doing a President’s Lecture in Manchester at the Print Works on June 5th. Get your tickets now as this event is sure to sell out. This is a great opportunity to see Hillman speak in the UK, with the bonus […]
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I’ve been very kindly asked to speak at Future Of Web Design, a Carson Systems event happening in London April 17-18 2007.
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I’m really excited to be attending and speaking at this year’s South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, where myself and Jim Coudal will be doing a session on Sunday morning called “How to make your short attention span pay dividends”. Don’t expect any kind of fancy slick slides - we’re going back to the […]
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At the time of writing this I’m sitting at gate S10 in Seattle waiting to fly home after a lightning quick two night trip to Microsoft in Redmond. The main purpose of my visit was a little talk I did at Microsoft Research, talking about mN’s approach to technology and interaction design. A personal hilight […]
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After a great first day at the Flash on the Beach conference, which involved attending great sessions from Eric Natzke, Branden Hall and Craig Swann, eating pie and mash with my old friend Todd Purgason and ending up at the Flux party I woke up on Tuesday morning to the most horrendous gales and rain.
Which […]
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On December 4th the UK’s first Flash conference for six years will kick off in Brighton. Flash on the Beach has an absolute stellar line-up of speakers - John Davey has done an amazing job of getting some great people to speak at an event which promises to be very special if you’re into all […]
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I’m sat in the airport in Austin waiting for my flight home to Manchester via Newark after what was a fantastic Flashforward. While I didn’t manage to catch as many sessions as I would have liked to, the best thing about these events is the social side - seeing old friends that I haven’t seen […]
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In just over a week I’ll be jetting off to the Texas capital of Austin to appear at my first Flashforward in over a year. As well as being a great opportunity to catch up with old friends, meet new people and see all the crazy innovations within the world of Flash, this one is […]
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It’s been six years since the UK hosted a Flash conference, but come December we’ll have something to call our own in the shape of Flash on the Beach. A 3 day festival in Brighton featuring the biggest names in the industry from all over the globe, this should shape up to be one of […]
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It’s been six years since the UK hosted a Flash conference, but come December we’ll have something to call our own in the shape of Flash on the Beach. A 3 day festival in Brighton featuring the biggest names in the industry from all over the globe, this should shape up to be one of […]
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So last week I was at the BBC Innovation Lab together with Paul and Adam from mN. Had a great time generating possible ideas for future BBC projects - a kind of geek camp in the Lake District! The gutter was I was also invited to Las Vegas for MIX06, but had to turn […]
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The last week or so has been insane - but in a good way.
I was in Vienna last week for the brilliant Europrix Top Talent Festival, delivering the keynote based mostly on content from the upcoming book. It all ended in a snazzy gala awards night showcasing truly incredible interactive work from all over […]
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I�ve written a small preview for my session at HOW in Chicago on the beadesigngroup site. It gives you a little insight to the sort of thing I’ll be talking about and also mentions the latest thing I’ve been playing around with…
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The week before last I attended a small conference sponsored by Microsoft Research Cambridge called Less is More - simple computing in an age of complexity. While both Bill Buxton and Scott Jenson did fabulous keynote presentations, I came away a bit disappointed in what I experienced over the two days.
I was the only person […]
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So right now I’m in New York getting ready for the upcoming Flashforward. Last night it was the 4th July, the first time I’ve been in the states for Independence Day. Looking round for something to do I found Rooftop Films. I’d seen this site before and thought it was a very cool idea, showing […]
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I’ll be speaking in New York at Flashforward about “Twisting Data” and how Jazz, and particularly people like Thelonious Monk are a constant source of inspiration for a lot of my work. What I love about Monk is how he experimented with the composition of a song, putting notes in places that shouldn’t be […]
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If you’re in the Toronto area on Friday night (16 April) there’s a great new event called Flux happening at the Drake Hotel featuring Transfatty, Greg Hermanovic, myself via iChat and Live Brazillian drumming from Maracatu! For the event I’ve created some special edition DVD’s of the Cinema Redux project (to be given away on […]
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If you attended my session at Flash In The Can you might be looking for those source files I mentioned. If so, you can download a stuffed archive which contains some of the bits I was showing. You might also want to check out processing.org to find out more info about that crazy piece of […]
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It meant staying up till 3am but it was a blast! BD4D.2 NYC took place at the Remote Lounge last night and via the modern wonders of technology (well , iChat AV), I presented 2 pieces of work at the gig while I sat in my office at home. Not that I’m advocating this is […]
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Put together a little bit of footage from the Osmosis event which happened in New York City on 11th July at the ultra trendy Remote Lounge. It features two very cool beatbox guys, one going by the name of Audio Poet, though I’m not sure of the other guys name. Apparently this is what the […]
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Got back from Toronto (as far as I know SARS free) after a great time at Flash In The Can. Thanks to everybody who came for my session about designing for the audience rather than other Flash designers. I whacked up some pictures while I was there, including some that my wife Lisa took during […]
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On Monday 14th April i’ll be doing a presentation called “Designing for my Mum” at the Flash In The Can conference, Toronto. Last’s year’s FITC was really great so I’m really looking forward to learning some new stuff and meeting some new faces. I’ll also be chairing a global design debate and they’ll be a […]
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BD4D hits Manchester for the third time tonight at the Circle Club, featuring Cosgrove Hall, Pixel Fury, Mario Cavalli and er, me. I’m showing a little thing I’ve been working on at mN that’s a shared creative thinking space which uses Applescript, PHP and Flash to make it easy for anyone to add content to […]
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Thanks to everyone who turned up for my session at Digital Arts World. Had a lot of fun over the three days and was great to meet some new faces. Ben from Mediumart snapped a few piccies of the event, plus there’s some other notes from the show over at Ultrashock. I’ve just uploaded a […]
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BD4D hits Manchester on April 3rd. Gonna be a great night, including some freebies, and yes, Flash MX to giveaway as well as New Riders books and Swift 3D version 2! Got some cool speakers lined up as part of the 3 minute madness, so make sure you get your ass down to The […]
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A huge thanks to everyone who came to the ‘evening with’ thing on Wednesday night, hope everybody had a great time. I’m getting a lot of emails about the book I mentioned that talks about a technique for idea creation. Well it’s by James Webb Young and a snap at only �G2.95!
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If you’re in the London area on Februray 13th come on down to the New Riders event where I’ll be doing a talk on Flash, interactive design and anything else that springs to mind plus a Q&A session, with drinkies and stunning views over the thames! For more info email Naomi Teacher. Tickets are subject […]
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Big thanks to everyone who attended my sessions at Computer Arts Live, and thanks for all the positive feedback. If you’re looking for the ‘active’ prototype stuff I demoed at the event, I’m just ironing out some bugs, and writing some docs, so expect the download to be available in the next few days.
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Pete from Kerb took a load of snaps at the recent vector lounge event. Also before the DSF site goes live, you can check out the forum for the book kindly hosted by the good people at Ultrashock and check out the DSF Online Store!
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Had a fantastic time in San Francisco at Flashforward. Hoss from Flam Jam was awesome, as was Mickey from Digit, showing the inspiration and thought behind the MTV2 site. Eric Natzke won two awards at the Flash Film Festival, his work is just incredible, especially his typography stuff. Generally met loads of great people, so […]
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In the blue corner, Jakob Nielsen, usability guru. In the red corner, er me! Yes, Jakob and myself are having a debate about Flash at Internet World Spring in Los Angeles, 12th March. Let’s Get Ready To Rumble!
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The program for Flashforward 2001 in San Fran has been announced and us Brit’s are pretty well represented. Mad Glaswegians Flamabble Jam will be tearing up the stage as well as the guys from Digit and Mel Orgee from Friends Of Ed. I’ll be doing two sessions, one with Jimmy Chen of typographic.com on After […]
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