http://wanderingabout.com/_ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:51:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think the actual layout for this website has a bit more under the hood that deserves mentioning. The site served as a testbed for some webdesign concepts I firmly believe in, not anything really new, but more designers should paying attention to those. Designer design. Writers write. Simply put: ... http://wanderingabout.com/_/websites/wandering-about-site/ Download as quicktime A reel of my work in interaction design and video until 2007. http://wanderingabout.com/_/animation-video/portfolio-reel-2007/ To make the complex visible. to make novel information understandable, with minimal or no words at all. The following are a series of infographs, diagrams and maps that tries to show a different view of things you are used to see. Some where made just for the fun ... http://wanderingabout.com/_/visualizing-information/diagram-infographs-etc/ Download as quicktime A video about how technology may affect certain cultures, and what could be changed in the computer as it is today, so we will not need to change the cultures themselves. How to sell computers for monks is a proposition that designers should start thinking about the ... http://wanderingabout.com/_/animation-video/how-to-sell-computers-to-orthodox-monks/ Le button is one single button that can transform any surface in a radio tuner. It allows to use any printed page as an link to an internet audio file which you can stream to your headphones. And because it’s able to save any pattern in it’s internal ... http://wanderingabout.com/_/animation-video/le-button/ Experiment. learn new tools. the following are a series of experiments I did when I first started exploring an isight iMac with quartz composer, a node-based visual programming language for open-gl effects. all movies are around motion detection, and video interferences. If you are a visual artist with a mac and ... http://wanderingabout.com/_/animation-video/live-video-effects-programming/ Digital tools are great but they lack the refinement or the sensibility of the classical drawing tools such as pens and pencils. Mélange is an attempt of bringing those together not by simulating how ink flows in a paper but by bringing the digital screen ... http://wanderingabout.com/_/animation-video/melange/ How do you freeze a moment? those two videos were made during my studies at the École Nationale Superieure de Création Industrielle in paris, and where meant to represent two distinct feelings. Both clips were made during my stay at l'Ecole nationale de Creation Industrielle, Paris, but not necessarily ... http://wanderingabout.com/_/animation-video/video-poetry/ Free music might change our culture. But only if it creates a culture. We live in a funny paradox. You can hear any music, from anywhere, given you already know it, or at least know how to spell it in a search engine. As a result, most of downloads are the ... http://wanderingabout.com/_/interaction-design/radio-jaba/ Mind the pad is a mind-tracker application-concept for cell phones and PDAs that is at the same time a scribble & write sketch pad, an address book, agenda and file organizer. The main principle behind the application is that information is not saved on a fixed location, but is stored ... http://wanderingabout.com/_/interaction-design/mind-the-pad/ Experiment the Alchemy! Can we map something as subjective as tastes? Alchemy of juices is a interactive infograph that is helps to choose a juice made with various fruits, by selecting either the fruits, the feeling or the taste. At the same time it tries to foresse those tastes and ... http://wanderingabout.com/_/visualizing-information/alchemy-of-juices/ muvuca is about connecting distant friends through some kind of non verbal sharing. throught their avatar on the movie screen they can sense that their friends have a common focus of attention. It's a virtual movie theather, where all friends watch the same movie at the same time. The avatar, controlled ... http://wanderingabout.com/_/animation-video/muvuca/ watch the animation! (turn the sound and move the mouse) Animation based on experimental photography on a scanner. They where achieved rotating the object (my own face) during the scanning process. Later the best results were redrawn on vectors and animated. A colored rectangle rotates and follows the mouse, revealing the ... http://wanderingabout.com/_/animation-video/animated-self-portrait/ Enter the maze Game design and programming. While figuring out an algorithm for building a maze with only one right path, it became clear that in such a maze the walls would be a labyrinth of it’s own. Then it was a natural evolution transforming it into a maze whith special ... http://wanderingabout.com/_/games/the-wall-maze/ The rule of thumb in the first year of college is: bend the rules to see how far they can go. The teacher asked the students to build a game with resin pieces, just so we would know how to mould in resin. We added dry ice, acr ylic ... http://wanderingabout.com/_/games/laser-chess/