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
- 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
- ifttt
- imperfection
- indieweb
- input
- inspiration
- installation
- inventory
- ios
- keyshot
- kirby
- leap motion
- lrb
- 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
- tools
- touchdesigner
- transferwise
- travel
- tw3
- ultisnips
- video
- vim
- vimwiki
- vinyl
- visual systems
- watson
- web
- work
- zx81
- Everything
- 18.04.18 Pretty much any process can be drawn like this
- 10.04.18 Brian Eno on co-operative intelligence and not getting a job
- 09.04.18 The Point of Making Pointless Things
If you've ever been to one of my talks you may have heard me say "put work into the world which deserves to exist." Whilst I'm very much …
- 07.04.18 Data is Beautiful
- 07.04.18 Typographic Mesh Manipulation
Continuing to to explore my mesh transformation sketches. This time type is mapped across the mesh and then further transformed with some …
- 07.04.18 Typographic Mesh Manipulation
Continuing to to explore my mesh transformation sketches. This time type is mapped across the mesh and then further transformed with some …
- 06.04.18 Common misconceptions about me, gleaned from emails I've received
I live in London I'm part of a team I have a large studio that can be toured by students I have an accounts / marketing department I am no …
- 05.04.18 Rather pleading ramped mesh manipulation
- 05.04.18 This book changed my coding for the better
Apart from a night school course in learning Pascal, I’ve never done any formal training in programming. Whilst being self taught is great …
- 04.04.18 Design as a reactive system
- 03.04.18 Playful
- 03.04.18 Work-in-progress
- 02.04.18 My favourite portable fountain pen
This is the pen I carry with me everyday — the Midori Traveller’s Company Brass Fountain Pen. Closed it’s 10cm in length so fits nicely in …
- 30.03.18 National Pencil Day
Here’s three of my faves.
- 30.03.18 I do love these stickers I had made for my Now Boarding series
- 28.03.18 Boiler Plate Template for Processing
When I start a new Processing project I always start from the same base template. This template features some core things that I pretty …
- 28.03.18 Further iterations being made for new product exploration
- 28.03.18 Bit of a HR Giger thing going on here
- 28.03.18 Noisy mouse trails
Exported from Processing using Toxiclibs and then rendered in Fusion.
- 28.03.18 Noisy Voxel trails
- 27.03.18 3D trails not quite working correctly yet
- 26.03.18 John Maeda — Design by Numbers
A book that really pushed forward the idea of designing with code to create new forms. A classic.
- 24.03.18 Tick Tick
- 23.03.18 Just six of the 500 Japanese stamps I got off EBay
- 23.03.18 The Best Pencil Sharpener
Mentioned over the years in more than one of my talks, this is the KUM Automatic Long Point sharpener. It is without doubt the best …
- 22.03.18 Joining Future Everything Board
I'm honored to announce that I've joined the board of Future Everything. Since 1995 Future Everything has been exploring the meeting point …
- 21.03.18 The best ruler
As many of you will know I’m a bit of a stationery geek with draws full of pencils, pens, paper and of course rulers. When it comes to a …
- 20.03.18 Eye Health and Working with Screens
For many years now I've been suffering from quite chronic dry eyes, brought about through working with screens, my lack of blinking (you …
- 20.03.18 Saying Thank You
Whenever I finish a client piece of work I take time to say thank you by popping something into the post. Often it’s a physical souvenir …
- 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 …