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Greenhouse

This looks interesting. From Oblong comes Greenhouse, a creative coding toolkit for spatial interfaces. One of Oblong’s founders helped design the gesture interfaces of Minority Report. And much of the firm’s work has been developing tools to make such gesture-based interactions more common place. Their g-speak platform enables multi-user, multi-screen, multi-device, spatial, networked applications. But […]

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The Art of Creative Coding

Here’s a great video surveying the creative coding movement from Off Book — a PBS web series about cutting edge arts. What’s especially nice is that the video’s YouTube page includes links to the people interviewed, as well as a Google doc listing every project shown. The video is broken into three sections: Simplifying code with Processing – […]

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Where Does Innovative Design Happen?

Lately I’ve been thinking about the evolving world that interactive media designers inhabit. My recent post on Digital Archeology may be to blame, as it highlighted how the needs and interests of users have changed over the past 20 years. And the role of designers — including the types of environments in which we can best […]