Last post I talked about designing with the recently possible. This is a mode of creating I love. Constantly watching what technology and ingenuity are making possible and filtering those new potentials through design constraints to build interesting new stuff. That’s all a little on the abstract side though. So I’m going to try to [...]

Chris Heathcote describes himself as a designer whose medium is the recently possible. That’s a pretty exciting thing to be during our explosion of digital technology which throws out an awful lot of recently possible. See Chris’s slides and notes from a talk at the Do Lectures for insight into what this means. This wealth [...]

Earlier this week I was at Screens, a Toronto conference by FITC billed as “one of the only events in the world designed for developers of all platforms of screen content.”. I followed my usual conference technique of seeking out the off beat and out of the ordinary. That approach led me to the audience [...]

Back at the end of June I went to the Eyeo Festival in Minneapolis. It was brilliant! I’ve been trying to come up with some sort of cohesive description of my experience. No luck so far but I can’t let another month roll without at least noting the experience. The festival featured an almost overwhelming [...]

As part of my exploration of what it means to be a Creative Technologist I’ll be looking at examples that I consider great products of Creative Technology. I came across a new mobile app, MyVoice, today (via Siobhan O’Flynn). The app is designed to help people with health problems that impede verbal communication to ‘speak’ [...]

More and more I’m recognising a tension in the type of work I do. The tension is between the interactive, physical, spatial work I think is ‘best’ and the work that’s commercially supportable (often by the advertising and marketing industries). Sometimes the two coincide, with the best work being commercial work too, but often they [...]