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
/Opinion
- 15.07.18 Less, but Better
Recently I've noticed something with my work output — year on year I'm making less. When I first started my site almost twenty years ago, I …
- 20.02.18 Putting 'stupid' ideas into the world
I've always been a great believer in putting ideas out into the world to represent who you are what you're about. It's something I do a lot …
- 08.02.18 On Valuing Artists
This morning a friend of mine sent me a link to something she thought would be of interest to me — a Computational Arts Residency at …
- 30.01.18 Strangelove. Or how I stopped worrying how web design is meant to be and got …
brendandawes.com has been online since 2000. Over that time it’s been through various incarnations, from purely Flash based (gasp) to …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …