This site has always had a very selfish aim in that it’s focused on being a place where I can publish my latest experiments, code and projects. It’s never been a place where I post links that often to other stuff or even thoughts about things I’ve seen or bumped into.
So, I’ve been looking […]

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I just couldn’t leave it alone, but those pesky typographic creatures made from the titles of the posts on this site are back having been completely rewritten in ActionScript 3!
Each creature is made up from the letters from the title of each post, and the speed is dependant on their age - younger = […]

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With the latest version of this site I’ve tried to look at representing blog activity by using the number of comments to “agitate” as it were the pixels in the thumbnail for a blog post.
So if there’s no comments the image just stays still. If there’s a few comments the image starts to dance […]

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I waited almost a week. But my hatred of my old phone was so great that getting an iPhone was the sensible thing to do.
And yes I love it. The touch screen interface makes any other mode of input seem so antiquated and the abililty to browse the actual web no matter where […]

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magneticNorth are looking for a super talented Flash Actionscripter available for a pretty much immediate start, working on lovely stuff in a lovely environment in Manchester, UK.
We’re looking for someone who loves nothing better than coding in as2 and as3 and relishes the opportunity to do things that some people might say are impossible. […]

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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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As regular readers will know I’ve always been fascinated with visualizing massive amounts of data, and creating new objects from many small parts, such as the Cinema Redux project.
Recently I saw a really wonderful example of the beauty of the massive made from the small when I visited decodeunicode.org. Now a site that catalogs […]

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In September 2004 I wrote about how I was using a 1960s B&O stereo (bought from Ebay) with my iPod and then eventually an Airtunes as a coming together of old and new technologies.
I loved this setup. I had a beautiful (through my eyes at least) Beomaster 1000 amplifier, with all it’s wood. touchy […]

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Some of you may recall as I’ve been developing this site, I’ve been using a great little application called MAMP. It essentially allows you to run a local copy of a website with PHP and MYSQL functionality with single click ease. There’s nothing to install, no terminal hocus pocus or anything like that. Just […]

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OK. So maybe I’ve become addicted to constantly screwing about with Wordpress themes. Maybe I need help. But this version I’m really happy with.
First off I’ve gone with using a large Flash background with various videos that get randomly chosen. Then I’ve overlaid the HTML over the top. If you want to do the […]

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Occasionally I like to mention a few things that have caught my eye so to speak, be that in a digital sense or actual physical real world. So here’s some stuff that you may find of interest
Graphic Define
Daniel Schutzsmith has published Issue 2 of Graphic Define Magazine, an online magazine focusing on the business […]

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The biggest influence on all my work is without a doubt my dad. He showed me that things like composition are an innate talent, something which I still believe to this day.
My dad, John Dawes, who worked as a professional newspaper photographer all his life had that innate ability in bucket loads. For a […]

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So the other night there we where playing the incredible Nintendo Wii Sports, when my sister-in-law did a beautiful cross court back-hand - smashing into the Philips Cineos TV in the process - guess that’s why they don’t have LCD TV’s on court at Wimbledon.
The TV survived - there was a scratch on […]

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Another week another iteration! One of the things I love about having this site entirely powered by Wordpress is how I can change the look of the site with the flick of a switch using the themes feature. So with this version I wanted to have a homepage that allowed me to start to […]

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As part of Coudal Partner’s fabulous Swap Meat feature, myself and Jim Coudal have hooked up to create a super special, limited edition Cinema Redux print of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001. These are very high quality 16″ x 20″ Lambda continuous tone prints and a must have for any discerning Kubrick geek.
Check out the […]

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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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So it’s a bit of a radical change, but I thought it’s spring - time of renewal and all that. And anyway the last design was a few years old, and I was bored with it. Plus some parts of the site were becoming a pain to maintain so I took the plunge and […]

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As I recently mentioned I’ve been working on a little project to create a visual album browser for my Squeezebox using the Chumby (thanks to Shawn at FITC). So after getting back from SXSW I managed to get the first prototype up and running.

See it in action and read more details of the why […]

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Yesterday I was doing a little bit of research on the director Mike Figgis and chanced upon a lovely series of films on You Tube centered around the fabulous Moleskine notebooks, one of which features Mike Figgis’ notes. I just the love the seemingly personal nature of the films and the view of the hands […]

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I thought it was about time that I updated this site - been almost a month without me posting anything new so here’s something you might find of interest.
Two years ago I wrote about how the digitizing of music and photos onto our hard drives was removing the visual cues from our homes of […]

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A very happy new year to everyone. 2007 is already shaping up to be a very busy year, not least on the speaking side of things; February sees me going to Seattle having been very kindly asked to speak at Microsoft HQ in Redmond, then in March it’s off to SxSW(my first time) in Austin […]

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Yesterday I went onto Lovefilm.com to update my film queue and give a rating for the film I’d just watched (See No Evil with Mia Farrow - a masterclass in suspense), only to be told that the site was having a redesign and would be back up on Sunday October 8th.
So Sunday came and I […]

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After getting back from Austin and being in the UK for 24 hours I then went to the South of France for a 2 week holiday - a kind of technology detox, where laptop, internet and TV were replaced by amazing food, uninterrupted time with my wife and an agenda of doing sod all for […]

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After a very short test period with a few of my friends I’ve decided to release a free to use, customisable version of my Flickr viewing widget that’s featured on the homepage of brendandawes.com.
Scattr is a Flash swf you can put on your blog, website, myspace page or wherever and have it display the x […]

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There’s something I need your help with because it baffles me no end. This whole web 2.0 thing. I’m down with what this approach to web technologies can deliver for the web - I believe user experiences on a day to day level can and are better because of them, or because of the considered […]

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I’ve just uploaded the new version of the official site for the new book which uses a lot of video footage, some of which has been slowed down. Now normally to slow footage down you’d have to use something like Final Cut Pro, iMovie or something similar, which is kind of like using a sledge […]

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Like most people we have at least 4 remotes in our house that we use as a matter of course. TV, DVD, A/V AMP, PVR. So if we wanted to watch a DVD for instance we would first have to switch input on the TV to HDMI, then switch input on the A/V then turn […]

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Keith Peters looks to have a very exciting project on the go called Brevity, which he describes as Processing for Flash. That sort of thing gets my attention. It’s going to be open source too so expect people to be all over this when it’s released.
Having recently bought a Nikon D50 I downloaded the public […]

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Craig Swann, inventor, designer, musician et al has just added a lovely little film to the InspireMe.tv project. The film takes you on a journey around Barcelona, where Craig now lives, showing the sort of things that inspire him.
As well as viewing the film directly on the site, you can also subscribe to the InspireMe […]

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Tuesday saw the first public preview of magneticNorth’s SPIN project - vinyl being used as a control device for digital media. As part of the Diffraction event at FACT, Manchester’s GKUT performed a 15 minute set using the tools we’ve been creating together as part of the FACT funded project. Wanna see? Check out […]

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The InspireMe.tv project is now available as video podcasts - that’s vodcasts to you. Simply subscribe to feeds.feedburner.com/inspiremetv in your fave podcast software like iTunes or whatever and you’ll get the InspireMe.tv films straight to your desktop. Expect some brand new content next week from Crash Media’s Craig Swann, plus more in the coming months.

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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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Version 1.2 of the DSF class library has just been uploaded. Along with a couple of bug fixes and tweaks there’s now some Flash 8 specific classes including a BlurTween class which, well, tweens a blur over time - it’s all in the name! I’ve updated the feature panel gizmo on my homepage to […]

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Inspired by the Philips Ambilight on the superb Cineos range of LCD tv’s, I’ve created yet another Flickr app, only this time the background colour changes to the average color of the current image. Also, instead of showing thumbnails, small bars are created, each coloured with their corresponding average colour value. These bars act […]

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Well I took my eye off the ball for a moment (read a few years) and suddenly saulbass.net was gone! It seems I didn’t renew the domain (no doubt the email got filtered as spam) and now the site is no more - well for the time being anyway. To be honest the site needed […]

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My old buddy Ryan Carson has just told me about his latest product called DropSend - and having used it I have to say it’s freakin awesome.
As with all great products the idea is super simple. Many firewalls / email clients prevent large attachments being received. Now with dropsend all you have to do is […]

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Flash 8 v Flickr
I’ve been looking forward to playing around with the filters in the new Flash 8, but have always treated new features like this in any software with caution. As you soon learn with Photoshop, the majority of filters you never really use on a daily basis, if at all. Pretty much all […]

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Universal Principles of Design - fantastic book, essential reading for all designers. A Tale of Two Sisters - Korean horror movie released on DVD, beautifully filmed and truly scary. Context Free - create beautiful images using a set of design grammars - and it’s free. LoveFilm - simply the best online DVD rental. iDive - […]

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Like a lot of people nowadays my music collection is purely digital. I have thousands of mp3s, hundreds of albums - but to any visitor to my home, I have nothing. Zip. Not a thing. In fact it�s as if I’m not even even interested in music. There is no evidence whatsoever of my music […]

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Following on from my session at the HOW Design Conference, and my talk of experiments with Play-Doh, I’ve posted up one of the Play-Doh examples I showed in my session. Special thanks to everyone who came to my session and for all the kind comments I’ve received since getting back from Chicago.

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Over the last week or so I’ve been playing around with Flash and the fabbyFlickr using the brilliant Flickr API wrapper by Kelvin Luck. The first few things I’ve built are just simple picture viewers, all be it with a little bit of a twist.
The lightbox is just a simple port of the picture […]

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Thanks to everyone who attended my session today at Flashforward. Hope it was worth it! As promised I’ve uploaded the brand new Drag Slide Fade 2.0 Class Library, so have a play and let me know what you think. Documentation is now included with the download and is also available here and online.
Remember if […]

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Having recently read Fermats Last Theorem by Simon Singh, one particular paragraph stayed with me.
Goro Shimura and Yutaka Taniyama were 2 talented mathematicians at the University of Tokyo back in 1954. But the two had very different methods of working. To quote from the book:
While Shimura was fastidious, Taniyama was sloppy to the point […]

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Just a few things on my creative radar so to speak: New photography site from the wefail boys - simply beautiful. This is New York - charming childrens classic by Miroslav Sasek. Fermats Last Theorem - incredible story about what was the worlds most difficult mathematical problem. Nice Jitter examples. Make stuff with programmable bricks. […]

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I found this fantastic Flash server object for Max MSP that allows you to communicate between Flash and MAX. This has a lot of potential - transferring real-time audio spectrum data to Flash or video motion tracking into Flash to name but a few.
But of course you would be running two seperate applications - […]

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Apologies for not posting for an age but things have been a tad busy of late. So in an effort to fill the void I thought I’d post a few things that have caught my eye recently.

Theiry Loa, one of my fave interactive designers has posted some new work. I just love the feel that […]

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I see quite a few people are dissapointed that the new colour iPod does not play video, but instead can store thousands of photos, with which you can play slideshows on your TV screen. But for me I think Apple have made the right move.
What many people seem to forget is watching video on a […]

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Having gone through a bit of a pain barrier trying to set-up network storage on my network at home I thought it might be useful to document how I got on.

I like the idea of network attached storage (NAS) - having a common drive available to any Mac on the network gives a lot […]

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Something I’m always keen on doing in a lot of my work is trying to make things very sort of hands on. I suppose it comes from growing up with stuff that had lots of knobs and switches that you could twist and play with. It just makes you want to reach out and touch. […]

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Most of my time at the moment is taken up with the brilliant Making Things Teleo system - getting to grips with controlling Flash with switches and knobs and the like as well as output like having Flash control motors and such like. Along the way I’ve blown a few bulbs up and nearly blew […]

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In Manchester we have a great branch of Waterstones that has a very well known Art & Design section. Ask any designer around this area and they’ll tell you how much they love that part of the shop, how it’s become a sort of mecca for great books on design (as well as Magma down […]

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I’ve recently been looking into the whole area of Digital Photo Frames. As part of my ongoing process of creating a digital hub in my house I’ve relished the idea of having a frame or series of picture frames that can receive photos on the fly wirelessy over the network. Such a frame is already […]

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Starting this weekend, 17th July till 10th October is a landmark, long overdue, exhibition of Saul Bass’ work at the Design Museum in London. I’m going to be heading down next week to take a look. Maybe then that will give me the push I need to finally finish the new version of saulbass.net.

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This is pretty damn geeky but I’ve just installed Linux on my iPod! Why? Well like the creator of the Linux on iPod project says “because you can”. But the thing is this opens up the possibility of programs being written for the iPod, like a Flash card reader so you can simply plug in […]

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This morning I posted off swabs of my saliva to get my own DNA snapshot from CATGee. In around forty days I’ll get back a DNA profile snapshot, made from key locations in my DNA strand, to use however I want. I think it’s pretty amazing that, even though it may just be a bit […]

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One of the big things I’m into right now is trying to get things that happen in real-time in the real world to be shown in some form on the web. So I’ve built a little project that takes the info from my currently playing song in iTunes and shoves it on the web. So […]

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The other week an underground fire in Manchester left mN (and many others) without any Internet connection for almost a week. Rather than have withdrawal systems it was actually quite liberating. No longer did I feel the need to check my email every few minutes — and any rate, most of what I get is […]

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So I was sat on a plane recently going from Paris to Toronto when the big guy next to me started to play around with the touch screen entertainment system in the back of the seat. As he started to navigate around the system he seemed to get a bit lost (though it wasn’t that […]

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One of the big things everyone was talking about while I was at Flashforward last week was Making Things. Based in San Francisco, they make devices that interface with the outside world. You can add all sorts of sensors and then use that input to interface with the computer, both input and output. The cool […]

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The other day I took delivery of my latest Ebay win. Something I’ve always wanted to get my mits on for many years. Now finally I have a piece of video game history… a Vectrex console.

Released in 1982 this was like no other console that had gone before it. Using vectors rather than rasters, […]

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Most interaction between humans and computers usually happens with the keyboard or mouse. I’ve always been frustrated by those constraints which is why I like exploring input using sound and video. But there’s still more that can be explored with other forms of input and output. People term this area of interaction design “physical computing” […]

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I was sat in a bar the other day when I noticed this comment card:

Now I’m not that anal that I go around looking at every piece of design in a critical way but this thing made me laugh. They’ve got the standard three ratings for a comment card of this type - “good”, “average” […]

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The other night I came home to find Lisa, my wife, rapidly losing patience with house.co.uk. All she wanted to do was register on this award winning site and pay our gas and electricity bill. She said so matter what she did the site would not accept her user name. She tried loads of different […]

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I’ve been doing some digging on how to make video look more like film. The big giveaway for me is the realism of video, it’s sharpness, it’s saturated colours and sometimes the “jaggies” on diagonal lines. While there are various pieces of software that allow you to get a better film look from your video, […]

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Something I’ve been thinking about for a while is the process of digital creativity be that it’s constantly refinable. You have the ability with the ubiquitous Command-Z to “undo” mistakes - wiping things entirely from the creative playground. But what if we didn’t have that facility? What if our digital creations somehow bore all the […]

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The other day I was trying to plan a short break away next February so I hopped on over to Expedia to get some prices on flights. I’ve used Expedia many times before and it’s always been reliable, easy to use and a pretty good web experience. Though now they’ve made a subtle change which […]

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When I got my Lacie DVD RW for my iMac, I went through a bit of baptism of fire with the burner, DVD Studio Pro and also Toast 5. So I thought I’d pass on some of the things that I’ve learned in the hope that somebody might find this info useful.
DVD-R, Toast 5 and […]

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Last night I became a victim of the latest mobile phone craze - bluejacking. I got gripped on the train home. Just checked my S55 for any messages and there was this icon on screen saying I had been sent something. So I opened it up and this is what I got:

To be honest I […]

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As my wife Lisa would tell you I’m pretty dire at remembering stuff. If I need to remember many things then I’ll have to jot them down on a list. Then again my writing skills are pretty shonky as I can hardly do joined up writing anymore - a side effect of using computers […]

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For a while now I’ve been using what I think think is one of the best pieces of user interface I’ve ever used. And it’s so beautifully simple. Clutter is a cool little alternative interface for iTunes. Instead of choosing what music to play via a clean, clinical, organised list in iTunes, Clutter allows you […]

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If you ask me what my all time greatest piece of software is I will always reply “Photoshop”. It’s the tool that got me into this thing in the first place plus it’s one of the most intuitive programs I’ve ever had the pleasure to use.
But Lately I’ve been turning to Macromedia’s Fireworks for some […]

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Last night I was sat on the train when the lady next to me opened up her laptop PC. Nothing unusual about. She did some work. Nothing unusual about that. Then she finished her bit of work and decided she’d play… bloody patience. Christ! All that computing power and the best thing she could think […]

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While I was in New York for Flashforward I bought myself a long wanted Sony DigiCam. Film has always been a massive passion of mine and probably my biggest influence, but up until now I haven’t really had the gear to explore what I can do with the medium. So right now I’m playing around […]

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Pixelsurgeon launch their shiny new site. Previews of the next version of the Mac OS - Panther (can’t wait for Manx Cat!). All new magneticNorth site and ID, feel the love. Saul Bass on the Web - after 2 years of neglect I’m finally working away on the next version of saulbass.net, tidying stuff up, […]

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Fellow mN designer Adam Palmer pointed me in the direction of Denim - a very cool sketch based tool for early prototyping of websites. Version 1.1 has just been released which is great as 1.0 was a bit dodgy on OSX. It really is a cool idea - just sketch out some pages then link […]

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My first phone blog! Pete Barr Watson pointed me in the direction of blogplanet.net

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Back in February I bought the D-Link Bluetooth adapter so I could use my Siemens S55 phone with my iBook. While connecting to the phone was no problem, could I get it connect to the net over GPRS? Could I hell-us-like! Tried calling O2 who tried to help but even after using their helpful PDF, […]

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I’ve been busy the last few weekends setting up my iMac at home as an Apache server, just for my own use. Reading how to do it on the brilliant Mac Dev Center, I had it up and running in no time complete with PHP, MYSQL and even setting up a webDAV folder! Everything was […]

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Spent the weekend rejigging the headshop area of the site so it’s now all database driven. The content is now removed from how that content gets displayed, which as we all know is the future of the web and any connected applications! This very news feed you’re reading is database driven - so it’s really […]

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Just got iTunes 4 with the intergrated Music Store. Even though I can’t buy music yet as I’m in the U.K. this thing has totally blown me away! Browse the store right in iTunes, preview tracks and then select what tracks you want to buy at 99c each. This is a fundamental shift in the […]

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Guilty for crimes against good design: Microsoft PowerPoint. Now you could say ‘Don’t blame the tool’ but the thing is it’s hard for any designer to make PowerPoint turn out anything that looks decent. Fonts look dreadful, the colour pallete is very limited and as for things like guides, forget it. To counteract this, PowerPoint […]

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Sad news that Friends Of Ed has gone under following the parent company going into liquidation. Their first book, New Masters Of Flash was the first of its kind and broke new ground in the field of computer graphic books. I for one was very proud to be part of that first hefty volume. While […]

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Finally moved over to Mac OS 10.2 just before Christmas and I’m totally lovin’t it! Still not had one single crash, still not had to do a force reboot. I’ve got OSX on 2 iMacs, one G4 and the other a G3 version.

And the software rocks too. The way Apple have done the integration […]

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Bob Hughes, author of the brilliant book “Dust or Magic” is putting together a great conference at the end of March in Oxford, England. To quote from the site: “IT WILL COVER the psychology, the politics, the philosophy, and the nitty-gritty hands-on practicalities of creative work with the computer. ” The line-up looks very different […]

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Was thinking the other day about LCD Paint like Philips are developing. Straight away you start to think about any surface being a screen - if it can be painted on, it can become a display. While that idea is nothing new (check Minority Report) is there a possibility that this would become a new […]

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Micheal Williams from Macromedia has written an excellent white paper on actionscript standards via the DesDev site. A must read if you’re into Flash MX code.

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One thing that bugs me at the moment. Internet award catergories such as “Best Use Of Broadband”. What the hell is that all about? I mean do the Oscars have “Best Use Of Celluloid” or Architect awards with “Best Use Of Concrete”? How about we get back to awards for ideas and content and not […]

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The humble checkout baton has a lot to answer for. Why? Well, remember the days before those pesky little “next customer please” pieces of plastic invaded the conveyor belt. We managed to all get along just fine with our products sat a voluntary distance apart. If our products did happen to stray, we’d just apologise […]

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Playing around with an ecard system using some very cheesey imagery taken from an old seventies DIY manual. Have a play and send some cheese around the web. Nice!

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New Riders are running a Voices That Matter competiton, with first prize being a day with me! I keep trying to tell the guys at work that ‘it’s like winning a prize every day’ but they just tell me to sod off, or words to that effect!

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The BD4D guys have kindly asked me to do a 3 minute madness thing for event 4, happening on Thursday, February 28th, 2002 at EAST, 58 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DP with Jemma Gura from prate.com as the featured creative. Sure to be a cool night.

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There’s a few things on my Mac that I can’t live without, that do actually make my life easier and more productive. Default Folder is a godsend when navigating open and save dialogs. DragThing is by far the best ‘launcher’ application out there. SnapzPro is something I use nearly everyday for making screenshots in various […]

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I was clearing out some stuff in the office the other day and came across my old Kai Power Tips for Photoshop folder. When I was first getting into Photoshop (v2.5), I downloaded all 23 tips from the MIT site and read every single word. It gave me a really good grounding in the […]

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Got an iPaq and want to sync it with a Mac? Mac Flash developer who wants to do stuff with an iPaq? Well Pete from Pixel Fury pointed me in the direction of pocketmac, a third party app that allows you to sync with the iPaq. Also if you have a compact flash card, you […]

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Finally got round to uploading the source files from my Computer Arts Live session. There’s a few different things in there including some prototype bits with some more basic actionscript primers. Pull them apart, play around with them, amaze your family and friends. While I’ll always try and answer questions about the source files (well […]

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Juxt Interactive have just released their first book - Flash Deconstruction, featuring a look into their creative process as well as hard edged ActionScript and design. Check out the superb site that accompanies the book. Top.

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Well, my book goes to the printers next week - finally got there! Should be out around the middle of October. Currently working on completing the website - stay tuned.

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On my way back from San Francisco I ended up watching Enemey At The Gates. My fave bit though was the end credits! Really cool Russian typographic treatment, as far as I know done by The Moving Picture Company. Begs the question, why is their own site not as good as those titles?

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Had a cool time at the Webby Awards in San Francisco last week. ABC have an archived webcast that you can check out of the whole event. Alan Cumming was a great emcee and the whole show was full on glitzy glamour with a high camp-a-rama showbiz ending! Psycho Studio didn’t win, as expected Requiem […]

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If, like me, you’re on a Mac, it probably drives you mad how when you download some Flash source files, they appear as text files. This means you can’t simply double-click to launch them. Well you can now use these two applescript droplets I’ve created. Just simply drop your fla or swf onto the relevant […]

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