In early 2009, thanks to the generous donations of friends and family, I attended the 2nd annual Interaction Design conference in my hometown of Vancouver. The three day event was exhilarating, educational, and inspirational. The hands-on workshops afforded insight and instruction from top practitioners in the field, the speakers challenged us, and the [...]
Over at LiFT Studios I’m learning the art of patience. During the course of recording and producing an interview with Chris Stone – UX designer at Nitobi and local IxDA leader – I was assaulted on all sides by angry deities of technology. From the imps that sucked the batteries dry (thanks guys, [...]
My brother is a creative kind of fellow, though his creativity is usually ephemeral or inaccessible – stacked rocks in the forest, writings trapped in his journal, fables stamped onto the hood of his car. As of late he’s been dabbling in the digital realm, doing a bit of Flash work and composing catchy [...]
Over at LiFT Studios I’m learning the art of the interview and the art of video production while working on the LiFT Studios Broadcast (LSB) – a weekly podcast about all things design. A while back I sat down with Haig Armen, the founder and director of LiFT, to talk about his approach to [...]
In April of 2008 I relaunched Protocol 7 with Oulipo, my personal variation on the black and white, grid-based design style. Over the months it was featured in a several galleries and I received a number of emails from people interested in using the theme on their own site. Now that I’ve redesigned [...]
I haven’t mentioned it before, but I’m attending the 2nd annual Interaction Design Conference this year. I’m so excited about it I can hardly sleep at night. Just check out the incredible program and speakers lined up this year and you probably won’t be able to sleep either. And as long as [...]
Okay, the title is completely gimmicky and has nothing to do with the current recession, but ’tis the season and, with beer in hand, I find myself indulging. A couple of people have nudged me with question marks regarding the site and the husband-boy was rather nonplussed considering I how much I liked the [...]
I’m interested in ambient interfaces, unobtrusive data, and augmented reality, which is why this video, The Ambient Life, caught my eye over at johnnyholland.org. According to the post, The Ambient Life,
… was created for Freeband, a Dutch research program in which a.o. Philips and Delft University participate. The video tries to show a [...]
I swear, I’m going to corner the market for wakalixes. Anyways, now that I have an iPhone I’ve been wanting a place to aggregate visual impressions of my days as they pass by. I love the lo-fi quality of the camera and with CameraBag on board it’s like I have a magic-pocket full [...]
Things that are bizarrely out of proportion give me the weebie-jeebies[1]. As a kid, weird images would pop into my head as I was drifting off to sleep, like a massively over-sized tire, and I’d go all weebie-jeebie. Usually I could counteract this by shifting position – laying with my face on the [...]
My limited edition set of web designer buttons has finally made it to my doorstep after taking a somewhat circuitous route via my mom’s house (thanks mom!). Khoi Vinh’s design originally triggered my buying impulse, but I must say that all the designs (and designers) are quite fetching. Now my sabo-kitty finally has [...]
Japanese-English, or Engrish, adorns every other physical object in Japan, from clothing to billboards to candy. It’s near impossible to avoid the omnipresent poetic flourishes painted on the side of pachinko parlours and gas stations, and has even inspired several websites dedicated to documenting the phenomenon, including an online store that sells [...]