Have you been swapping?

Here's what me and Amy have been up to recently, lots and lots and lots of work for our community project.
Made interactive posters, gift tag leaflets, regular leaflets, small viral presents and screen printed giftbags for people who have swapped to take away!
Been crazy busy, stay tuned for the final video edit of all of this.

Recorders by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Photos from an interactive exhibition called Recorders at the Manchester Art Gallery by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.

Amazing works which used heartbeats , sound, scanners, communication and projection to create an immersive experience.

AM/PM

Just finished this brief for uni, we were asked to take the title AM/PM and either create a title sequence for BBC4 or as I chose to create an interactive kiosk design.

I took this and adapted it to an installation based on the idea of space and time. I then decided to create the installation for the science museum as a way for kids to learn about the solar system, called "Solus". The installation puts you in the position of the planet, the interaction involves you walking on the floor interface and when you stand on the name of a planet it triggers the sun, represented by a wall of light, to be brighter or dimmer depending on which planet you have stepped on. Then at the same time the temperature of the room changes in accordance to the planet you are stood on

Then this is a video animation of how the floor interface changes when you step on a planet and trigger the interaction.

CV: self promotion

CV time.
Here's my design for our recent CV project, I decided to go big but simple in the design... and by big I mean 2 meters.
Printed on the plotter double sided, which was a nightmare but I got it to work with a lot of help from the technician, so all in all worth it.
The design is on the front, my CV: about me, qualifications, experience, contact etc etc. Then on the back is a kind of wallpaper design, as the size of it reminded me of wallpaper and could then be something that the recipient could put up, the design became a play with typography saying "employme" repeated in an op art pattern down the length of the paper.

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Mail Art: Presentation

We presented all of the mail art together on a line of tables, it was really cool getting to see everyone's work in an informal way and actually letting the students open the letters all round the table created a great atmosphere of discussion.

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Mail Art: University

This was in response to the question "should university education be free?" I chose the idea of sending a statement of the debt that they will have after 3 years of university and I then expanding this further by thinking of the packaging and making it so it was first wrapped in loads of brown paper and then wrapped in string and then wrapped in sellotape and finally more string. It shows the idea of working so hard to get through university and what you finally get from them is a huge debt.

Mail Art: World Population

 This was in response to the question "how many people should there be?" I chose to go down a more symbolic route and started thinking about the idea of something that is ever expanding and then the idea of this expansion being restricted, like the earth is restricting the limit of population expansion. From this I came up with the idea of placing an elastic band around a balloon which when blown up restricts the user and makes blowing up the balloon near impossible.

Mail Art

Hello 3rd year of uni!
Our first project is called Mail Art where we got posed 12 questions and were asked to produce 4 responses to them and then mail them to our tutor. Here's my 4 responses, all packaged and now posted, I tried to include some kind of interactive element into each to make them work on a more advanced level.
I'll reveal more after we've presented them all on Wednesday.

Showreel

Showreel of my work from 2008-2010.

Videogrid by Ross Phillips

Here's a quick video from Decode exhibition in London, which we went to see last weekend. This piece was probably the most popular and simple thing there. As you can see people were having fun creating an animation that looked like they were passing a book to each other.

Check out Ross Phillips @ http://www.rossphillips.me
http://www.showstudio.com

A-B Making of...

Human Interaction GUI

For the last six weeks me and Amy (http://amytblog.blogspot.com) have been working on our green screen project. We based our idea for our human interface on the idea of someone changing from something quite likeable and light to someone quite dark and manipulative. To demonstrate this we wanted to take a real life example, so we based our piece on Charles Manson.

Here are a few screenshots:

A-B text

We were asked to produce signage using only text in 1hr 30mins. We decided to use perspective so you have to stand in a certain place in order the see the direction.

www.ertdfgcvb.ch

Check out this-- http://www.ertdfgcvb.ch/ its got some pretty cool interactive works (and the sites quite nice too)

Andreas Gysin has created this site for his experiments and ideas for interactive projects using shockwave and processing, among others. And if anyone can complete the fan and ball game, tell me your secret!

Also, there are some really useful links on page 3 for interactive designers.