Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
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- Everything
- 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 …
- 13.07.10 Norman McLaren - Dots (1940)
- 08.07.10 How many people have you upset today?
We (@mnwork) get lots of lovely emails about us and our work – which is of course very nice indeed. But we also get the occasional piece of …
- 08.07.10 Frank Gehry: be an expert in your work
"Nobody else is an expert in your work"
- 06.07.10 BLAB night at @northerndigital
As you may have seen I will be doing a little talk at the August Northern Digitals event on August 5th 2010. A few people have tweeted to …
- 02.07.10 Web designers, stop looking at web design
The other day I was adding some podcasts to the wonderful huffduffer, a service that allows you queue podcasts up for listening later. I …
- 01.07.10 Preview of my session for @FITC San Francisco
OK so preview is a bit of a stretch. That would suggest I have it all finished ready to go on Thursday 19th August. Well that would be a …
- 21.06.10 How do we "lend" our digital stuff?
Over the last year or so I've been gradually getting rid of my physical DVD collection and one-by-one ripping each film to disc. When I …
- 11.06.10 Augmented Reality: is it a Bit Rubbish?
I've never been a fan of reality. I hate reality TV shows, never watch them and never allow them to invade my home. I can see reality when …
- 22.04.10 Flash as an attitude not a platform
Many years ago, when I was in a mind numbing job working in a factory, I did a night school course in Pascal programming. I'd grown up …
- 03.04.10 The Invisible Computer
I've always hated computers. Well more specifically I hate what the word computer conjures up for many people; a clever, scary machine that …
- 18.03.10 A hashtag summary of mine and @katiemaymanc's trip to #sxsw
sunshine #rodriguez #penistrauma #alwayslosingmyhotelkey #coudalappearslikemagic #friends #wafflesshapedliketexas #newfriends …
- 29.01.10 Why the web needs Flash
Back in 1998, inspired by a combined love of Alfred Hitchcock, Saul Bass and the grammar of cinema, I created a little project called …
- 28.01.10 iPad: it's all about the context
Like I'm sure many people yesterday, I felt a little bit underwhelmed by the iPad announcment. You could hear the resounding "it's just a …
- 18.12.09 This says it all really...
The tags attached to the files on my Mac kind of sum me (and mN) up nicely.
- 06.12.09 Work in progress: iPhone toy 2 update
Starting to play better with the Super Formula algorithm. Touch point distance and rotation influence the shapes.
- 06.12.09 Work in progress, new iPhone toy
No idea what this is yet!
- 16.11.09 Elena iPhone app now available
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/elena/id339376599?mt=8 More details here: http://www.brendandawes.com/projects/elena/ And it's free!
- 04.11.09 Cecil Balmond on provoking exploration
‘We wanted to break the traditional, continuous sight lines of a bridge to create a structure that provokes exploration and questioning of …
- 31.10.09 Building simple toy on iPhone with openframeworks
Bren
- 22.10.09 Using openFrameworks for iPhone dev
http://robertcarlsen.net/2009/05/31/using-openframeworks-for-iphone-dev-757
- 20.10.09 The collectable nature of iPhone apps and why it matters
A few months we lauched a little thing called Skinni Popcorn at www.skinnipopcorn.com One of the key design considerations when we were …
- 17.09.09 A few magical things for a Thursday...
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” – Arthur C Clarke …
- 30.07.12 Wim Crouwel's advice for young designers
"Keep your radar turning".
- 28.10.13 Guest appearance on the Bitchcast
Stacey Mulcahy very kindly asked me to appear on the Bitchcast. We talk about simplicity, perfection, working with clients and how people …