Brendan Dawes
The Art of Form and Code

This site documents my continuing fascination for making computer-based work using generative and automated systems to create objects which exist digitaly, physically and sometimes both.

Find out more about me and feel free to get in touch.

Explore the work: data / electronic / web / paper / plastic / pixels / iot / interface / time / memories / everything

Browse the complete archive or explore my process blog.

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Produced for Use — Limited edition physical objects.

Represented by Gazelli Art House.

Descendants
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Passengers BCN
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Ode to Valentina
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Persian Dreams
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Passengers BER
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Press Any Key To Escape
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Three Steps Forward
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Infinite Glimpses
Generating infinite compositions from a month of desktop screen captures
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60 Minutes on the Ethereum Blockchain
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Whilst I often work with data, I believe data by itself is not enough; data needs poetry

16-Bit Machine Dreams
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Cashier Number One Please
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Remnants
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Digital Baroque: La Primavera
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Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area
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Passengers LHR
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Passengers SZX
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Ultimate Services for your Happiness
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AI 2041
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8-Bit Machine Dreams
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Your Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
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Frequencies
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The Pandora Variations
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Clients include Airbnb, Google, Twitter, EE, The RSC, Arup, M&C Saatchi, Cancer Research UK, The Atlantic, Intel, Mailchimp, PWC, Bravo

Satellites
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Moments
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The Opponents
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The Swan
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Trend Micro Perspectives XDR
Data-born generative motion piece for Trend Micro event
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Choreographic
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Trend Micro Perspectives
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Deloitte Cloud Computing
Visualising Deloitte's Cloud Computing Solution
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House of Cards LIDAR
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The Process
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Silent State
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My approach to design and interaction is detailed in my 2006 book Analog In / Digital Out

Manifesto for Myself
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Here, Around and Beyond
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Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf 2019 Titles and Graphic Design
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Vivobarefoot
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Morfff
The letter holder made from code and concrete
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Pluralsight Skill Sets
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Embraer Data Streams
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Notes to Myself
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Amongst The Leaves
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Carefully Everywhere Descending
Real-time data installation for PricewaterhouseCoopers' London Data Lab
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Generative Chairs
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Ex-hibition Printers
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Every Year a Sound, Every Sound a Shape
Sound visualisations for legendary sound production house
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Platts 360 Visualisation
Visualising 3000 shipping routes
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The Beautiful Inconvenience of Things
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Plastic Player
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GPS Speed Plot
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Now Boarding
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Chaos and Order
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The Art of Transactions
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Cancer Research UK Collaborations
Visualisation for Cancer Research UK Research Annual 2016
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City Density as Type
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Flip Remote version 4
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FITC Tokyo Identity
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Local Murmurs
Story-sharing installation for Airbnb at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival
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Starcount
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The Shape of Data
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Big Softie Wireless Remote
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Exploring Deep Cyberspace
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The Invisible Infrastructure
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Project Patterns
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Flippin' Big Remote
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States of Mind
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Majestic Landscapes
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Somewhere Amongst The Trees
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Beautiful Game, Beautiful Data
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Breathe
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Moments in Music
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Data as Object
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Kennedy
An iPhone app for capturing the now
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Breeze
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Almost Famous
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Handheld
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Box of Tweets
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OFFF Twitter Archive
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Mechanical Fuzzy Weather Machine
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In Receipt Of The Now
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OFFF Cincinnati
Presentation at OFFF Cincinnati 2013
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To Be Today for the RSC
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Objects Around A Centre Point
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Dot Dot Dot Exhibition
A Solo Exhibition on Design with Data
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Sonic Sculptures
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Ben Folds Five Poster
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TEDx Utrecht
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James Bond Kills
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Now Next Later
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The Happiness Machine
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Lissajous Iteration Print
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Popa Real Time Projection
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TedX Manchester
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Notes on Design
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Popa
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Between the Ones and Zeroes
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Fun with Lasers
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Memento Bricks
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Whilst I Was Sleeping
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Object for the Display of Memories
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Memory Box
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Makers of Things
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The Grammar of Interactive Design
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Talk-Action=Shit Letterpress Print
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The Accidental News Explorer
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Blab
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Superformula
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Two Paths in the Same Space
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Connections
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iota
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MoviePeg
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Fido Weather Indicator
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Elena
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Yuugen
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Apollo 11 Transcript Static
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Dopplr Doodles
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Play Stop Go
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COFA Talk Online
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Daisy
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Screenshot Diary
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Dynamic Identity System
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A Study in Time and Place
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100 Feelings Felt
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Doodlebuzz
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Dot Dot Dot Lecture New York
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Analog In, Digital Out
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From One to the Other
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The Moments In-between
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Browsebox Chumby
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Vogel Spiral Navigation
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Collision Engine Display System
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Audio Edit
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Atari Hardware Hacks
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Lissajous Spirals
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Typographic Monk
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Play-Doh as Interface
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Nothing There
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Slit Scan: Don't Look Now
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Snow Globe Memories
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Sonic Painting
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Postcard from New York
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Hitchcock Filmography
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Drag Slide Fade
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Proximity Based Sound
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New Masters of Flash
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Chomsky Space
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Psycho Studio
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Saul Bass on the Web
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