Project Archive

• Now Becomes Then / A large format algorithmic broadsheet publication to mark twenty five years of brendandawes.com / 2025
• Flocks, Herds and Schools / Plotted generative works as homage to Craig Reynold's Boids algorithm / 2025
• Certain Irregularities / Plotted generative works to commemorate the 25th anniversary of brendandawes.com / 2025
• Altarpiece: The Divinity / A meditation on our relationship with AI through a religious inspired triptych / 2025
• A Strange Intimacy / A study on identity in the age of AI / 2024
• In Harmony; The Five Boroughs / Digital sculptures created from New York population density data / 2024
• Descendants / An imagined digital robot collection / 2024
• Nothing Can Ever Be The Same / A 168-hour-long, real-time generative video installation featuring the work of Brian Eno presented at the Venice Biennale. / 2023
• Passengers BCN / Physical sculptures created from Barcelona airport passenger numbers during COVID / 2023
• Ode to Valentina / A tribute to female pioneers in the field of psychedelic medicine. / 2023
• Persian Dreams / AI-driven figurative and abstract works recount the golden age of Persia / 2023
• Collisions / A visual response to ever-increasing polarisation / 2023
• You, Me and the Machine / Tribute to Herbert W. Franke / 2022
• Passengers BER / Revealing the silence of the pandemic through Berlin's passenger traffic / 2022
• Press Any Key To Escape / Real-time patterns inspired by a former work-life / 2022
• Three Steps Forward / A collaboration with Jazz pianist Emmet Cohen / 2022
• Infinite Glimpses / Generating infinite compositions from a month of desktop screen captures / 2022
• Moments Spent With Others / Inaugural solo show at Gazelli Art House / 2022
• 60 Minutes on the Ethereum Blockchain / Creation for Tatler Asia / 2022
• 16-Bit Machine Dreams / The video game trilogy concludes / 2022
• Here and Elsewhere / Collaboration with Sion Trefor / 2022
• Cashier Number One Please / Third in the Oblivious series / 2022
• Remnants / A second collaboration with Charlotte Edmonds and Logan Nelson / 2022
• Digital Baroque: La Primavera / Baroque inspired digital sculpture / 2021
• Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area / Second in the Oblivious series / 2021
• Passengers LHR / Second in the Passengers series / 2021
• Passengers SZX / The Pandemic As Seen Through Airport Passenger Traffic / 2021
• AI 2041 / Sci-fi inspired release for TRLab / 2021
• 8-Bit Machine Dreams / 8-bit video console games as sculptural souvenirs / 2021
• Your Nearest Exit May Be Behind You / Learning to look up / 2021
• Frequencies / A collaboration with musician Sion Trefor / 2021
• The Pandora Variations / A collaboration of music, choreography and generative art as a reaction to the pandemic, inspired by the myth of Pandora / 2021
• The Collectors / Digital and Physical Sculptures born from Ethereum Transactions / 2021
• Satellites / Algorithmic sculptures born from the Apollo 11 moon landing transcript / 2021
• Moments / Visualising moments in history captured on film, television or video / 2021
• The Opponents / Digital sculptures formed from the 1994 arcade fighting game Tekken / 2021
• Arcade Machine Dreams / Classic video games create flowing forms / 2021
• The Swan / Creating a flowing sculptural form from an iconic ballet performance / 2021
• Field Notes Winter Edition 2020 / 99,999 unique generative snowflakes for the winter limited edition of Field Notes / 2020
• Trend Micro Perspectives XDR / Data-born generative motion piece for Trend Micro event / 2020
• Choreographic / AI Driven Motion Studies / 2020
• Trend Micro Perspectives / Data born artwork with a musical motif / 2020
• Black Mamba’s Revenge / Using AI to visualise the final fight scene in Kill Bill Vol. One / 2020
• House of Cards LIDAR / A LIDAR created video for Radiohead's House of Cards / 2020
• The Process / Limited Edition Screen Print / 2020
• Silent State / Iconic electronics reframed as art / 2019
• Manifesto for Myself / Limited edition screen print / 2019
• Here, Around and Beyond / Visualising Conference Attendees / 2019
• Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf 2019 Titles and Graphic Design / Animation and graphic design for German creative festival / 2019
• The Art of Cybersecurity / Beauty from cybersecurity data for Trend Micro / 2019
• Vivobarefoot / Capturing and visualising data for Made to Feel campaign / 2018
• Morfff / The letter holder made from code and concrete / 2018
• Pluralsight Skill Sets / 1.3 million assessments visualised as clusters of skills / 2018
• Embraer Data Streams / LED and AR installation at the Farnborough Airshow for Embraer / 2018
• Notes to Myself / Creative inspiration and interruption through a notebook, poster and pencils. / 2018
• Plastic Player 2 / An open-source analog interface for digital music / 2018
• Amongst The Leaves / Nature inspired physical data objects / 2018
• Carefully Everywhere Descending / Real-time data installation for PricewaterhouseCoopers' London Data Lab / 2017
• Generative Chairs / An AI creates over 2000 impressions of modernist chairs / 2017
• Every Year a Sound, Every Sound a Shape / Sound visualisations for legendary sound production house / 2017
• Fermata / Visualising interactions in and around a building / 2017
• Platts 360 Visualisation / Visualising 3000 shipping routes / 2017
• Plastic Player / A Playful Analog Interface for Digital Music / 2016
• Now Boarding / Passenger Tickets of Legendary Movie Characters / 2016
• The Art of Transactions / Organic digital structures born from payment transaction data / 2016
• Cancer Research UK Collaborations / Visualisation for Cancer Research UK Research Annual 2016 / 2016
• City Density as Type / Typographic expressions of city population density / 2016
• Flip Remote version 4 / Same again but with lights / 2016
• FITC Tokyo Identity / Identity and titles for design conference / 2016
• Local Murmurs / Story-sharing installation for Airbnb at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival / 2016
• Starcount / Visual branding for data insights company / 2016
• The Shape of Data / Creating time based structures from real-time data / 2015
• Big Softie Wireless Remote / Soft Circuit Presentation Remote / 2015
• Exploring Deep Cyberspace / Visualising the real-time flow of data through five of the Internet's biggest platforms / 2015
• The Invisible Infrastructure / The size of the U.S. economy in data / 2015
• Project Patterns / Visualising the ebb and flow of a project / 2015
• Flippin' Big Remote / A Stupidly Large Remote Control / 2015
• States of Mind / What does your mental health look like right now? / 2015
• Majestic Landscapes / Physical Souvenirs of Digital Data / 2015
• Somewhere Amongst The Trees / Exhibition at Dog & Pony, Munich / 2015
• Doris Le Bot / Unique generative creatures made from tweets / 2015
• Six Monkeys / Physical interactions with email / 2014
• Beautiful Game, Beautiful Data / Data Visualisations of the 2014 World Cup / 2014
• Breathe / Beijing's Air Quality Data in Physical Form / 2014
• Moments in Music / Making music physical again / 2014
• Data as Object / Data you can hold in your hands / 2014
• Kennedy / An iPhone app for capturing the now / 2013
• Breeze / An app for SUP Boarders / 2013
• Almost Famous / Algorithmic Burgers / 2013
• Box of Tweets / An Analogue box for Digital Things / 2013
• OFFF Twitter Archive / Visualising the Twitter archive for the Barcelona based design and art festival / 2013
• Mechanical Fuzzy Weather Machine / Servo-based weather forecast indicator / 2013
• To Be Today for the RSC / A Shakespearean twist on the events of the day / 2013
• Objects Around A Centre Point / A simple study of structure / 2012
• Dot Dot Dot Exhibition / A Solo Exhibition on Design with Data / 2012
• EE - Digital City Portraits / Commission by EE for the launch of 4G / 2012
• Ben Folds Five Poster / Limited edition screen print for Ben Folds Five / 2012
• TEDx Utrecht / Data by itself is not enough, data needs poetry / 2012
• James Bond Kills / Number of kills by James Bond in official movies / 2012
• Now Next Later / A Minimal Weather App for iOS / 2012
• The Happiness Machine / A simple button reveals happy thoughts from people connected across the Internet / 2012
• Lissajous Iteration Print / A visual representation of the process of iteration / 2012
• TedX Manchester / A talk about the creative process of iteration / 2012
• Notes on Design / Thoughts, sketches, doodles on design, creativity and making / 2012
• Popa / The big red button for your iPhone camera / 2011
• Between the Ones and Zeroes / Video of my talk at #See6 in Germany / 2011
• Fun with Lasers / Creating laser-cut business cards / 2011
• Memento Bricks / 3D printed modular mementos of meeting / 2011
• Whilst I Was Sleeping / Using a humble brown paper bag to create surprise and delight / 2011
• Object for the Display of Memories / A simple visual representation of digital data / 2011
• Memory Box / Storing digital memories in a physical box / 2011
• The Grammar of Interactive Design / Talk at FITC about six things within interactive design / 2010
• Talk-Action=Shit Letterpress Print / A personal mantra / 2010
• The Accidental News Explorer / An iPhone app for bumping into things / 2010
• Superformula / Natural forms created with a system inspired by nature / 2010
• Two Paths in the Same Space / Two paths in the same space flowing together with occasional interruption but no longer touching / 2010
• Connections / Mapping connections / 2010
• iota / Internet Connected Agnostic Display / 2010
• MoviePeg / A super-simple stand for iPhone and iPad / 2010
• Elena / A do nothing time wasting iPhone app / 2009
• Yuugen / Simple musical toy / 2009
• Apollo 11 Transcript Static / A memorable signal coming out of the noise / 2009
• Dopplr Doodles / Visualising my travel data / 2009
• Play Stop Go / A constantly moving, changing interface. / 2009
• COFA Talk Online / Andy Polaine interviews me for COFA series of talks / 2009
• Screenshot Diary / Capturing abstract screens as I work / 2009
• Dynamic Identity System / A fluid dynamic system for graphic exploration / 2008
• A Study in Time and Place / The movement and placement of objects / 2008
• 100 Feelings Felt / Fleeting digital moments become physical / 2008
• Doodlebuzz / A chaotic system to help you find things you didn't know you were looking for / 2008
• Dot Dot Dot Lecture New York / Little bits combine into something bigger / 2008
• Analog In, Digital Out / My thoughts on interaction design / 2007
• Vogel Spiral Navigation / Creating an interface using a pattern found in nature / 2007
• Collision Engine Display System / Fluid anti-grid display mechanism / 2007
• Audio Edit / Real-Time Jump Cuts / 2005
• Atari Hardware Hacks / Recycling dead media hack / 2005
• Lissajous Spirals / John Whitney inspired shapes / 2005
• Typographic Monk / Typographic expression of Thelonious Monk / 2005
• Play-Doh as Interface / Using an analog material to control digital media / 2005
• Nothing There / This is what silence looks like / 2004
• Slit Scan: Don't Look Now / Haunting images formed from simple processing / 2004
• Snow Globe Memories / A physical interface to past memories / 2004
• Sonic Painting / Creating a painting from sound input / 2004
• Cinema Redux / Creating a visual fingerprint of a movie / 2004
• Postcard from New York / A personal note from NYC / 2003
• Hitchcock Filmography / A tool to explore Hitchcock's movies / 2002
• Drag Slide Fade / Code for designers / 2001
• Proximity Based Sound / Things become louder the nearer you are to them / 2001
• New Masters of Flash / The shape of things to come / 2000
• Chomsky Space / Manipulate the message, manipulate the interface / 2000
• Psycho Studio / Edit your own version of the infamous shower scene / 1999
• Saul Bass on the Web / Homage to legendary graphic designer / 1998