Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
- 3D
- Ack
- Altoids
- Analog
- Arduino
- Automator
- Axidraw
- Backup
- Bash
- Boids
- Bookmark
- Books
- Cncserver
- Design
- Dropbox
- Eno
- Eyes
- FOTB
- Face-Tracking
- Flocking
- Fusion360
- Future-Everything
- Git
- Hardware
- IFTTT
- IndieWeb
- Input
- Inspiration
- Interview
- Inventory
- Keyshot
- Kirby
- Leap Motion
- Mac
- Makerbot
- Making
- Markdown
- Misconceptions
- Notes
- OpenFrameworks
- Opinion
- Output
- P5js
- Plain Text
- Plotter
- Process
- Processing
- Python
- Roslindale
- ThisisHCD
- Tools
- Transferwise
- Travel
- URL
- Ultisnips
- Video
- Vim
- Vimwiki
- Watson
- Web
- Work
- ZX81
- adobe
- anamorph
- coltrane
- conference
- dataart
- ffmpeg
- fzf
- gridmarkets
- hitfilm
- houdini
- iOS
- making
- nft
- notch
- photoshop
- robots
- tmux
- touchdesigner
- tw3
- tx3
- Everything
- 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 …
- 02.12.10 Flickr set plugin for Indexhibit
I've made a simple little plugin for anyone using Indexhibit which will display any Flickr set of your choosing from your Flickr account. …
- 02.11.10 Great work is worth paying for; why free apps are a bad thing
Let's not beat around the bush. Free apps are evil. Now it's not that I think the quality of free apps is bad—there are lots of …
- 27.10.10 Why the next version of Accidental News Explorer won't be full of new features.
When I created The Accidental News Explorer I made it mainly for myself. I wanted an app to help me discover new things to read in a way …
- 03.10.10 Why I dropped the simplicity bomb on www.brendandawes.com
Ten years ago I started www.brendandawes.com, my personal site where I store all my personal projects. The site was full of good …
- 29.09.10 Links from my #fotb talk
Here's a few links for some of the things I mentioned at my FOTB session: Saul Bass on the Web www.saulbass.tv Sesame Street Pinball …
- 05.09.10 My Processing source files from #dconstruct
After my talk at this year's Dconstruct I had a few people asking how the presentation was put together? Well it was all put together with …
- 28.08.10 My take on last night's @layertennis match with @joshuadavis
For only the second time, last night I had the honour of taking part in a Layer Tennis match, this time against the wonderful Joshua Davis. …
- 27.08.10 Tonight me and @joshuadavis battle it out
At 7pm GMT today, Friday 27th August, myself and Joshua Davis will face off in the new season of Layer Tennis www.layertennis.com If you're …
- 24.08.10 Creativity Abhors a Vacuum
We all have egos. The act of creating something from nothing is in itself an egotistical thing. But over the years I've learned that no …
- 11.08.10 Being selfish: making things for yourself to make better things
In the next few days I will finish work on The Accidental News Explorer - a news exploration iPhone app that celebrates serendipity and the …
- 03.08.10 This is why we get up in the morning
It's your shelf space; you decide what goes on your shelves.
- 19.07.10 Flash: it's not you, it's me.
I've had a long standing love affair with Flash – it's been my tool of choice for making things, experimenting with ideas and …