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I was pleased to be asked to create a custom Twitter wall for TEDxWaterloo (one of many independent spin-offs of the famous TED conference and the biggest of all I gather).

As an extra fun challenge I had the opportunity of creating for a stack of Christie MicroTiles - a very cool display technology that provides bright, flat images in infinitely reconfigurable modules. Using this display tech was a first for me and brought some interesting challenges. For example I had to figure out a way to display tweets that was legible, novel and fit with the brand while designing for a display four times taller than it was wide.

The end result used the TEDxWaterloo branding and a metaphor of rotating 3D blocks. The Twitter stream for the event was pulled in live and displayed on the tower as a stack of five graphical blocks that rotated as new messages came in. Distinctly no-professional video of the sack in action over on Vimeo and come more photos on Flickr.