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
- Flocking
- Fusion360
- Future-Everything
- Git
- Hardware
- IFTTT
- IndieWeb
- Input
- Inspiration
- Inventory
- Keyshot
- Kirby
- Leap Motion
- Mac
- Making
- Markdown
- Misconceptions
- Notes
- OpenFrameworks
- Opinion
- Output
- P5js
- Plain Text
- Plotter
- Process
- Processing
- Python
- Roslindale
- Tools
- Transferwise
- Travel
- Ultisnips
- Video
- Vim
- Vimwiki
- Watson
- Web
- Work
- ZX81
- adobe
- anamorph
- coltrane
- conference
- dataart
- ffmpeg
- fzf
- gridmarkets
- hitfilm
- houdini
- iOS
- making
- nft
- notch
- photoshop
- robots
- touchdesigner
- tw3
- tx3
- Everything
- 05.02.15 A day of building.
- 03.02.15 Choosing, assembling.
- 03.02.15 Needed more analog inputs for this new project so switched to Arduino Nano …
- 01.02.15 Quick and dirty controls for prototyping
Quick and dirty controls. #process A photo posted by Brendan Dawes (@brendandawes) on Feb 1, 2015 at 6:33am PST
- 31.01.15 Preparing some parts for next installation. #process
- 16.01.15 Juxtaposition
Progress. A photo posted by Brendan Dawes (@brendandawes) on Jan 15, 2015 at 11:51am PST
- 04.01.15 Sine Waves
Work in progress for a print piece. A photo posted by Brendan Dawes (@brendandawes) on Jan 4, 2015 at 2:43pm PST
- 11.12.14 Accidental Explorations
Exploring designs for completely new version of The Accidental News Explorer. The old version no longer works due to the api it used being …
- 12.10.14 Interview with Mike and Maaike
Great little interview from Design Milk with two of my favourite industrial designers, Mike and Maaike. Their work always has beautifully …
- 03.10.14 Analog Display
Working on things for an exhibition in Munich next year. A photo posted by Brendan Dawes (@brendandawes) on Oct 3, 2014 at 8:09am PDT
- 18.08.14 Hello, I am Erik—The German Letterman
"There is no delete, there is no return". From Gestalten, great video on Erik Spiekermann and going back to touching things, even the …
- 16.08.14 John Whitney on The Screening Room
Computer graphics pioneer John Whitney on the harmonic similarities between graphics and music.
- 15.08.14 User Friendly Paul Rand
"I don’t think that play is done unwittingly... at any rate, one doesn’t dwell over whether it’s play or something more serious — one just …
- 11.08.14 Using p5.js and Phantomjs to create images on the fly
I've been actively using Processing since 2003 – it's at the core of what I do and the work that I make. Yet I've always wanted something …
- 01.07.14 Lines Vs Sphere
Mapping lines around a sphere. Kind of.
- 22.04.14 Black & White Swarms
Simple black and white. Swarms mapped around a sphere. A video posted by Brendan Dawes (@brendandawes) on Apr 22, 2014 at 8:18am PDT
- 01.11.13 Hatch Show Print
"We're all carving new blocks all the time, something to add, something new". Great film about the legendary Hatch Show Print who are …
- 23.09.13 Manipulating a 3D mesh with Leap Motion
- 24.05.13 Work-in-progress: Box of Tweets
A tiny OLED display is used to show past tweets from my Twitter archive. Turning the rotary control allows me to traverse the archive one …
- 07.01.13 For Sale: Makerbot Thing-O-Matic
After two years of wonderful service I'm now upgrading my Makerbot to a Replicator 2 so it's time to sell my beloved Makerbot Thing-O-Matic …
- 02.10.12 Meet Limor 'ladyada' Fried at Adafruit Industries!
Many of the projects I make have Adafruit parts buried inside, but more importantly the amount of stuff I've learned via the Adafruit site …
- 02.10.12 Creating a physical button to mark the now with Electric Imp
An Internet connected button allows me to mark a moment in time together with the surrounding context of what the weather was doing and …
- 12.09.12 Bill Moggridge: designing objects that allow us to grow fonder of them
From Gary Hustwit's Objectified, Bill Moggridge – creator of the first laptop and co-founder of Ideo – who passed away on 8th September …
- 28.08.12 First Steps with Electric Imp
A video demo of my first steps with the wonderful Electric Imp, creating a small, self-contained Internet connected object.
- 24.08.12 An Exploration in Craft: Tanner Goods
Lovely film from Ryan Bush on Portland's Tanner Goods.
- 15.08.12 Kenneth Grange: I love to make things
"I don't know a scallywag in our industry".
- 13.08.12 Armin Hoffman: The whole point was to do it with the minimal of means
Created for the AIGA by Dress Code, wonderful short piece on Armin Hoffman.
- 09.08.12 Code 2600 Hacker Documentary
"Everything you've ever done is recorded somewhere."
- 09.08.12 Karim Rashid: I feel like I need less and less in my life
"I think people who are sacred with an idea, and don't want to be copied, have no other ideas."
- 06.08.12 Bobby Fischer Against the World
After reading the book Bobby Fischer Goes to War a few years ago, I finally got around to watching the HBO documentary Bobby Fischer …