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03.05.26 That Was The Week That Was — 3rd May 2026
Monday morning saw us head to Düsseldorf for Beyond Tellerrand, celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, for which I’d created all the …
26.04.26 That Was The Week That Was — 26th April 2026
This week was spent finishing the titles for the upcoming Beyond Tellerrand conference, adding the music created by Tobi Lessnow. I also …
19.04.26 That Was The Week That Was — 19th April 2026
After picking up an original 1977 pressing of The Strangler's debut album Rattus Norvegicus from my local record shop, it got me thinking …
05.04.26 That Was The Week That Was — 5th April 2026
Back in 2019 I created the graphics and titles for Beyond Tellerrand — the design event run by my friend Marc Thiele. Seven years on I'm …
15.03.26 That Was The Week That Was — 15th March 2026
We’re currently experiencing some issues setting up the Google Meet call, so we’ll be hosting the meeting on our platform, Riverside …
08.03.26 That Was The Week That Was — 8th March 2026
This week I've been deep in the weeds as I work on expanding some of the systems I use especially in respect of machine-learning. In the …
01.03.26 That Was The Week That Was — 1st March 2026
"What is the elementary particle of sudden understanding? It is the clariton. Any scientist will recognise the “Aha!” moment when this …
22.02.26 That Was The Week That Was — 22nd February 2026
"World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The …
08.02.26 That Was The Week That Was — 8th February 2026
This week started with a trip down to London for a meeting with Mila Askarova, owner of Gazelli Art House, who've been representing me for …
01.02.26 That Was The Week That Was — 1st February 2026
"Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a …
25.01.26 That Was The Week That Was – 25th January 2026
Started the week off in a nice way with news that Cinema Redux: Metropolis had been acquired by a collector through Gazelli Art House. …
11.01.26 That Was The Week That Was — 11th January 2026
Whilst there was much noise above where I worked in the studio at home — with the roofers putting a new roof on the house — it was still …
23.11.25 That Was The Week That Was — 23rd November 2025
Following an email from David Connor, Tutor for Architecture + Design at the University of Salford, I found myself on a train heading to …
16.11.25 That Was The Week That Was – 16th November 2025
This week saw me travel to New York for the third time this year. During the short three night trip myself and Gary Hustwit were revealing …
21.09.25 That Was The Week That Was – 21st September 2025
"You're very calm." One of the two sisters, and the one who wasn't as stressed as the other, said this to me as I sat on a bench at Leeds …
30.08.25 That Was The Week That Was – 30th August 2025
Bugs and Errors At the beginning of the week I noticed my site was peppered with errors and bugs. The latest version of PHP had thrown up …
18.05.25 That Was The Week That Was – 18th May 2025
Following on from my talk last week in Dusseldorf, this week saw me take a train across the Pennines to the North East of England for the …
12.05.25 That Was The Week That Was – 11th May 2025
This week saw myself and Lisa head to Dusseldorf for a few days as I was speaking at Beyond Tellerrand, a wonderful design event created …
10.05.25 The Joy of Uncertainty
The Joy of Uncertainty. Next week I’ll be travelling to Newcastle to speak at @thinking_digital_conf, talking about creating work using …
30.04.25 💥Now Becomes Then — A forty page, large format algorithmic broadsheet …
💥Now Becomes Then — A forty page, large format algorithmic broadsheet publication to mark twenty five years of brendandawes.com Since 2000 …
24.03.25 That Was The Week That Was — 24th March 2025
One of the bonuses of being a member of places such as the V&A or the National Portrait Gallery is you don't need to book a time slot …
16.03.25 That Was The Week That Was – 16th March 2025
I've been continuing to explore more ideas using the Axidraw plotter, looking at various algorithms for generating possible prints. One of …
10.03.25 Experiments with using Craig Reynold’s 1986 flocking algorithm
Experiments with using Craig Reynold’s 1986 flocking algorithm. This places random unseen objects in the space, at various sizes and looks …
09.03.25 That Was The Week That Was - 9th March 2025
With the publication of Certain Irregularities last week, this week was centered around fulfilling those orders – printing, packing and …
04.03.25 I get a lot of pleasure from the simple things
I get a lot of pleasure from the simple things. Such as taking my time to wrap larger @producedforuse orders in brown paper parcels.
02.03.25 That Was The Week That Was – 2nd March 2025
At some point this week I realised 2025 marked 25 years since I first registered brendandawes.com. It's been my corner of the web where …
27.02.25 💥Now available - a new plotted generative art series to commemorate twenty five …
💥Now available - a new plotted generative art series to commemorate twenty five years of brendandawes.com. Using an AxiDraw plotter, each …
23.02.25 That Was The Week That Was – 23rd February 2025
Back in New York to attend the Augmented Intelligence opening night at Christie's where my latest work – Altarpiece – will be on show and …
16.02.25 That Was The Week That Was - 16th February 2025
For many years now the music I play in the studio is routed through a Raspberry Pi running a thing called Mopidy – a music server written …
09.02.25 That Was The Week That Was – 9th February 2025
"Gardens exist on the threshold of artifice and nature, conscious decision and wild happenstance" – Olivia Laing, A Garden Against Time …