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Wet Design

Just got back from a visit to WET design, they are a water and fire-focused design company, famous for projects such as the Bellagio fountains in Vegas and other amazing water shows. Really cool studios and a wonderful, friendly staff that showed us through the entire facility. Very inspiring!

Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts

in transit, an interactive installation | Grand Rapids, MI

Augmented Reality Breakfast

Honeyway Train Augmented Reality Game from Boffswana on Vimeo. The Honeynut Cheerios Honeyway Train Augmented Reality game was developed by Boffswana for Saatchi & Saatchi NY and their client General Mills. More information on this project can be found at http://www.boffswana.com/news/?p=1010

Modeling in Cinema 4d for Shapeways Rapid Prototype Printing

I’ve printed a few models from C4D at Shapeways.com as a 3D sculpture and each time I do this I have to go through a trial and error process to create the model at the right size and specifications. I haven’t found good information that explains what the correct settings are, so for my own [...]

More iPad mags

I love the way this looks! From a print design, illustrator’s point of view you have to be excited by the visual qualities of the iPad. I can see a new design sector developing – ‘Motion Illustration’.

Apple vs. Adobe

What a pain, Apple is restricting development for the iPhone and iPad with their new terms of service. Not only is that going to hinder indie development with such tools as Unity, but it just seems like Apple feels less choice is better. I think they are forgetting that their biggest product – the iPhone [...]

Rocky Mountain Roller Girls!

Rocky Mountain Roller Girls bumpers! This is a compilation of a group of design students tasked with making bumpers for the Rocky Mountain Roller girls and for Dorothy’s Derby Chronicles. It was a really fun project, both for me and the students. Enjoy!

Long Lost relative?

A friend sent me this from Paris, pretty cool! And, a video about the play.

Web developments

This is a great story about something I’ve been noticing for a while – The gradual disappearance of Flash-based Websites (as he types from his Word-Pressed powered mobile-accessible web site). It goes into much greater detail than I ever could and I think summarizes the state of the field right now. At the bottom are [...]

UCD Visualization Symposium

Next week the College of Arts and Media (CAM) is hosting a MFA Visualization Think Tank with designers, educators and practitioners in the area of visualization from all over the world coming together to help us design the program. Last year, CAM hosted a similar event in Film that was very successful. Our purpose of [...]