Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
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- Fusion360
- Future-Everything
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- IFTTT
- IndieWeb
- Input
- Inspiration
- Interview
- Inventory
- Keyshot
- Kirby
- Leap Motion
- Mac
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- Making
- Markdown
- Misconceptions
- Notes
- OpenFrameworks
- Opinion
- Output
- P5js
- Plain Text
- Plotter
- Process
- Processing
- Python
- Roslindale
- ThisisHCD
- Tools
- Transferwise
- Travel
- URL
- Ultisnips
- Video
- Vim
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- Watson
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- ZX81
- adobe
- anamorph
- coltrane
- conference
- dataart
- ffmpeg
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- gridmarkets
- hitfilm
- houdini
- iOS
- making
- nft
- notch
- photoshop
- robots
- tmux
- touchdesigner
- tw3
- tx3
- Everything
- 03.08.12 Stand and watch and listen: Arup's redevelopment of Kings Cross Station
"Suddenly they stop and they go, wow. And then they start to say 'how did they do this?'". Lovely film from Arup's Nigel Morris about the …
- 02.08.12 Bill Buxton on Design
I never tire of hearing what Bill Buxton has to say. Skip to 4:00, sit back and take it all in.
- 02.08.12 Title designer Richard Morrison: Simple is Good
"I'm reminded of the story of how Ridley Scott sold Alien with just three words – Jaws in Space."
- 01.08.12 Milton Glaser: I move things around until they look right
"Anything I've really discovered has come through the act of making things."
- 31.07.12 Cecil Balmond: Narratives in Space
While I can't really say I'm a fan of the aesthetic of the Orbit, it's fascinating none the less to hear about the idea behind the design …
- 31.07.12 Eames: The Architect and The Painter
Just pre-ordered the DVD that comes out in the UK in September.
- 30.07.12 Erik Spiekermann: I add the sound
Love how Erik Spiekermann talks about how he can get inspiration from something that already exists, then when he draws it the next day …
- 30.07.12 Thomas Heatherwick: the new London Bus
Thomas Heatherwick talks passionately about designing the new London Bus.
- 24.07.12 electric imp - connect everything
Excited to learn this morning via email that electric imp will start shipping development kits next week. For me, electric imp is the …
- 02.07.12 Inventor Portrait: Ralph Baer, creator of the home video game console
Wonderful, inspiring and poignant film.
- 01.07.12 Inventor Portrait: Steven Sasson - inventor of the digital camera
- 22.06.12 Saul Bass capacitive touch light switch
So file this one under "pointless" – but it's still fun! Using Bare Conductive's conductive paint I created a capacitive touch light …
- 16.06.12 Conductive Dough
- 23.04.12 My session description for Reasons to be Appy conference
I'm looking forward to the sold out Reasons to be Appy conference at the end of May in London. Right now I'm scribbling down lots of notes …
- 20.04.12 The Generous Man – Remembering Hillman Curtis
I first met Hillman in 1998 during a Macromedia conference being held in Paris. I'd wondered into one of the sessions not really knowing …
- 09.04.12 unCloud - Create an open wireless network and distribute stuff
- 04.04.12 Tom Hulme at TEDxCSM
Tom Hulme, Design Director at IDEO talks about Designing for Emergence. So flattered to get such a great mention too.
- 14.03.12 Dieter Rams: Less and More Interview
- 13.03.12 Conversations with Paul Rand
Art is an idea that has found its perfect form.
- 13.03.12 Saul Bass: On Making Money vs Quality Work
"I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares."
- 13.03.12 The scariest public information film you've ever seen, from David Lynch
From 1991, it's a film about keeping New York city clean, but it's got all the tell-tale fingerprints of being created by David Lynch.
- 24.11.11 Announcement: magneticNorth, Beep and me
There's been some big changes over the last few months and without getting into the reasons, I wanted to just make it clear the current …
- 08.07.11 Why I think the Desert Island Discs site is the best thing @mnwork have ever …
On Monday, whilst many in the USA were celebrating Independence Day, July 4th also marked the the eleventh birthday of [redacted]. I'm very …
- 20.06.11 Making in the browser: using a web browser to make physical things
A few years ago Andy Clarke did a presentation called Walls Come Tumbling Down where he talked about the idea of designing in the …
- 24.04.11 Hack your TV remote better with @projectsugru
A simple way to make your TV remote a lot easier to use with the help of some Sugru. Remote controls are usually always filled with a …
- 20.03.11 The best data visualisation I've ever seen
The best data visualisation I've ever seen wasn't on the web. Wasn't a limited edition A2 poster. Wasn't featured on any blog or twitter …
- 08.03.11 Brendandawes.com; after the simplicity bomb
On October 2nd 2010 I nuked my site with what I called the simplicity bomb. Out of the rubble came a much simpler site designed to not only …
- 07.01.11 Some inspirational things for a Friday
It's been one of those weeks this week when I've been bumping into many wonderfully inspiring things; new things and older things. Here's a …
- 27.12.10 Why the Boxee Box isn't for me
I really want to love the Boxee Box but try as I might it looks like in its present form at least the Boxee Box isn't for me. I've owned an …
- 20.12.10 Use Dropbox to print to a Pogo from an iPhone automatically.
This has come out of a little project I'm currently working on that I thought was pretty handy. I've had a Polaroid Pogo printer for a …