Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
- 3D
- Ack
- adobe
- Altoids
- Analog
- Arduino
- Automator
- Backup
- Bash
- coltrane
- conference
- dataart
- Design
- Dropbox
- Eno
- Eyes
- Face-Tracking
- ffmpeg
- FOTB
- Fusion360
- Future-Everything
- fzf
- Git
- gridmarkets
- Hardware
- hitfilm
- houdini
- IFTTT
- IndieWeb
- Input
- Inspiration
- Interview
- Inventory
- iOS
- Keyshot
- Kirby
- Leap Motion
- Mac
- Makerbot
- Making
- making
- Markdown
- Misconceptions
- nft
- notch
- Notes
- OpenFrameworks
- Opinion
- Output
- P5js
- photoshop
- Plain Text
- Process
- Processing
- robots
- ThisisHCD
- tmux
- Tools
- touchdesigner
- Transferwise
- Travel
- tw3
- tx3
- Ultisnips
- URL
- Video
- Vim
- Vimwiki
- Watson
- Web
- Work
- ZX81
- 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 w…
- 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 G…
- 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 s…
- 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 gen…
- 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 h…
- 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…
- 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…