Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
- 3D
- 3d
- Analog
- Arduino
- Bash
- Bookmark
- Design
- Face-Tracking
- Git
- Hardware
- IFTTT
- Input
- Inspiration
- Interview
- Kirby
- Mac
- Makerbot
- Notes
- Opinion
- Output
- Process
- Processing
- ThisisHCD
- Tools
- URL
- Video
- Vim
- Web
- Work
- ack
- adobe
- altoids
- analog
- anamorph
- arduino
- automator
- axidraw
- backup
- bash
- boids
- bookmark
- books
- cinema
- cncserver
- code
- coltrane
- conference
- data
- dataart
- design
- dropbox
- eno
- everyday objects
- eyes
- ffmpeg
- flocking
- fotb
- fusion360
- future-everything
- fzf
- generative systems
- git
- gridmarkets
- hardware
- hitfilm
- houdini
- iOS
- ifttt
- imperfection
- indieweb
- input
- inspiration
- installation
- inventory
- ios
- keyshot
- kirby
- leap motion
- mac
- machine learning
- making
- markdown
- memory
- misconceptions
- nft
- notch
- notes
- openframeworks
- opinion
- output
- p5js
- photoshop
- plain text
- plotter
- process
- processing
- python
- robots
- roslindale
- sound
- time
- tmux
- tools
- touchdesigner
- transferwise
- travel
- tw3
- ultisnips
- video
- vim
- vimwiki
- vinyl
- visual systems
- watson
- web
- work
- zx81
- Everything
/visual systems
- 19.03.18 Post from Instagram to Kirby
I'm a big fan of the IndieWeb movement and the idea of publishing your content to a place you own and control rather than exclusively on …
- 08.03.18 Dawesome Toolkit Update 0.9
A small update to the Dawesome Toolkit, my library for Processing. It's sometimes handy to be able to get a list of the colours your …
- 05.03.18 Thank You Sinclair ZX81
On the 5th March 1981 a small home computer was released that, without exaggeration, changed my life. The Sinclair ZX81, retailing for …
- 02.03.18 Back your sh*t up!
This work that we all make — these little fragments of digital ephemera — well, I think it's important. Over the years that work builds up …
- 24.02.18 Creating ctags for Processing .pde files for use in Vim
Ctags generate a file of language objects — such as method names and vars — so they can then be used and located inside a text editor such …
- 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 …
- 16.02.18 Tips on exporting video from Processing
Sometimes my projects involve creating HD format — or larger — videos of coded work created in Processing. There's various ways to create …
- 15.02.18 An introduction to the Dawesome Toolkit — my library for Processing
The Dawesome Toolkit is a library for Processing that I originally made for myself, so I could use bits of code I always use in my projects …
- 11.02.18 Make it Shine: Rendering 3D Objects Made in Processing
For a few years now I've been creating physical objects from data — using Processing to essentially terraform an object such as a sphere, …
- 06.02.18 Creating Systems
Pretty much any work I create usually has a GUI behind it that I can then use to create the final compositions or sequences. I love the CP5 …
- 06.02.18 Creating Systems
. Pretty much any work I create usually has a GUI behind it that I can then use to create the final compositions or sequences. I love the …
- 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 …
- 24.01.18 Different categories create different white noise based soundtrack. I’ve also …
- 23.01.18 Typographic descriptions of categories with visual linking.
- 10.01.18 Traditional Japanese Colour Palette. This is a great little book showing …
- 02.01.18 As much as I do like a bit of colour I’m always drawn back to the simplicity of …
- 02.01.18 Talking of black & white, this is probably my favourite book on graphic …
- 01.12.17 Same model as before but this time uses the colour information saved as part of …
- 03.10.17 Proofs arrived of my neural network made chairs poster. Available online later …
- 29.09.17 Making a poster of my neural net generated modernist chairs.
- 19.08.16 No idea what this is. Started out as a grid of blocks then set blend to …
- 04.08.16 I've always been a fan of the simplicity of black & white. Much of my work …
- 02.08.16 Using vector y location to map to colour shift
- 01.08.16 Another of my favourite books. Armin Hofmann, Graphic Design Manual
- 27.07.16 Coloured bands
- 27.07.16 Op Art jagged
- 02.03.16 Having fun developing the backend for a new connected hardware product I'm …
- 06.01.16 Six done, another six to go.
- 26.11.15 Newest piece of work all done ready for install on Monday in London. I even …
- 20.11.15 Almost ready with this new piece of work for a new client.