Category Archives: Design
ReacTickles Lab at the Touch Trust, Cardiff
On Monday and Tuesday last week I was one of a team of six who travelled to Cardiff for a ReacTickles/openFrameworks lab at the Touch Trust. I joined Joel Gethin Lewis, Memo Atken, Marek Bereza, Will Pearson and Ben Jones and together we produced a series of audio and visual interactions that were projected on the wall of the at the centre for the children to interact with. These were used as an extra level of playfulness and expression, developed to fit in with their existing activity routine. Continue reading
OpenGL blending
While I was developing a recent project I needed to figure out how to use a multiply blend mode in openFrameworks. After a little research I discovered that it’s as simple
as setting the blend function in OpenGL. As openFrameworks uses OpenGL as a core graphics library it’s very easy to use OpenGL functions to create visual affects that go beyond the absolute basics. Continue reading
Bold problems with Flash CS4
For a recent project I had to load in HTML text from a CMS (ExpressionEngine) and display it in a Flash website. For me this is nothing new as I’ve been loading external content in to my Flash websites since I started many years ago. However this was the first time I’ve needed to do this in the Flash CS4 IDE using a very specific typeface. Continue reading
ReacTickles
As part of the Decode exhibition held at the V&A museum in London I joined a group of experienced and novice openFrameworks users and collaborated on a collection of very simple but very interesting interactive experiences that are part of the ReacTickles project. Continue reading
A HD portfolio
As we all know video is the new photo as far as the web is concerned and for the past year I’ve slowly been recording all of my projects as video screen-casts so that I can use them to demonstrate … Continue reading
Interactive Design
I’ve always wanted to become more and more involved in interactive projects. I spent the final couple of years of my degree focusing almost exclusively on interactive and screen-based solutions for my projects. Since then I’ve been extremely fortunate in the companies I have worked for, the great people I have met and the experience I have gained over the past years, it’s been fantastic. Continue reading