Walk in the park, look at the sky
02.04.13 Early days, but beginning to play with the wonderful Leap Motion to see what works well, what doesn't, what might work as an interface. Follow me on Vine @brendandawes to see more. Clockwise circular gesture increases volume, counter-clockwise decreases volume - though a bit hard to show in six…
07.01.13 After two years of wonderful service I'm now upgrading my Makerbot to a Replicator 2 so it's time to sell my beloved Makerbot Thing-O-Matic for the bargain price of £500. Built by myself in 2010, this is the original Makerbot Thing-O-Matic 3D printer, serial number 003161. Over the years I've…
07.12.12 I first showed this at my talk on creative process at the Creative Liverpool event on 6th December 2012. For me, it's a wonderful example of how sometimes things just come together, that just feel right. No bullshit Powerpoint rationale needed.
12.11.12 I can finally announce – following a brief period as part-time Creative Consultant – I have now officially left magneticNorth. For ten years I was the Creative Director of mN – a period of my life I look back on with very happy memories, incredibly proud of the work the mN team created over…
02.10.12 An Internet connected button allows me to mark a moment in time together with the surrounding context of what the weather was doing and what was happening in the news. To be continued…
02.10.12 Many of the projects I make have Adafruit parts buried inside, but more importantly the amount of stuff I've learned via the Adafruit site through its wonderful attitude to sharing knowledge is incalculable.
21.09.12 "When you're dealing with simplicity it's really just a matter of how you put things together."
12.09.12 From Gary Hustwit's Objectified, Bill Moggridge – creator of the first laptop and co-founder of Ideo – who passed away on 8th September 2012, talks with Gary Hustwit about how whilst we might not fall in love with our objects, they should at least, through their design, allows us to grow fonder…
11.09.12 Pentagram's Paula Scher talks about designing the identity for The Highline.
29.08.12 Take one nice and cheap audio system for greeting cards, wire it up to Electric Imp, put it into a 1960's Walkie Talkie and you have an Internet connected audio device that will broadcast Neil Armstrong's famous message when an image is clicked on!