January 16, 2009

Information Visualization: a personal retrospective

A personal recount I wrote for Inspire, the website of the Adobe XD group.

"First off, let me start by mentioning that I am not a scholar. I'm a wanna-be architect who turned to graphic design, trying to escape the world of physics and mathematics, who eventually started scripting, then programming, and finally ended up architecting immense visualizations of data from both databases and realtime streams."

continue reading here...

December 04, 2008

QueryBox

QueryBox allows you to easily create a Live Search Input form that lets users search and refine a query while continuously showing all valid results as they type.

November 14, 2008

Adobe Max 2008, San Francisco

Adobe Max is coming to town next week, and it's going to be the biggest Max Ever. I will be presenting on Playful Design together with Remon Tijssen on Monday at 5:00pm. I will also be talking very briefly about the work we are involved in with our group at Adobe XD: Designing Design on Tuesday. Finally I will be demoing the work I did for the Encylopedia of Life project we demoed at TED this year, at the conference within the conference, the FITC Unconference at Adobe MAX on Wednesday. We've been extremely busy preparing for this. Not only I'm presenting 3 times, but I also have been involved in a demo for the Keynote on day one plus another one on day two. I'm really looking forward to meet you all there!

September 25, 2008

Speaking at FITC Seoul

I will be presenting at FITC Seoul on October 14th, 2008 among an amazing speaker lineup that includes, Joshua Davis, Erik Natkze, Kyle Cooper, Paul Burnett, Euna Seol and Ralph Hauwert. More info on this event over here

August 23, 2008

Test from heteml.jp

Hello Hello! Long time no see. Just getting ready to revamp this thing. Lots of things happened since 2007 ;) Mediatebmple is shutting down all coldfusion accounts, so I was forced to move out. Now live from heteml.jp More soon...

May 09, 2007

FITC Road Show - Chicago

June 8th, 2007. I'll be speaking at the FITC Road Show in Chicago.

April 11, 2007

Flashconference 2007

May 4, I'll be presenting my work at flashconference in Stuttgart. Extremely bright minds such as Andre Michelle, Mario Klingemann, Peter Elst and Claus Wahlers, among others will be there too.This is my second time I'm participating in this conference. Can't wait to meet everybody again!

March 25, 2007

Debugging AS3 with firebug's console

Most probably you've already heard about firebug, if you haven't, I really recommend you go give it a spin right now.

Basically, firebug let's you lift the hood in your browser and see pretty much everything that's happening in there. It lets you edit, and monitor all HTML, CSS, Javascript live in any web page - it even lets you edit those objects on the fly!

It also gives you a fantastic console that lets you expose information about what's flowing through your scripts. Adding a global variable named "console" it exposes many methods that allow you to write to the Firebug console.

The really cool thing is that from flash you can call "console" using ExternalInterface, and any object you pass will be dumped as if it was a javascript object.

try it out:

ExternalInterface.call("console.log",{foo:123,bar:"da",boo:{da:12,beh:[123,145,"dfa",{fa:[0,1,2,4,5]}]}});

and you will see the output in the image above.

March 23, 2007

not slacking!

way too much going on, this past year has been sleepless. I've managed to take on a good bunch of monumental projects that have kept me quiet to the outside world. Now that I see the light at the end of the tunnel, I'm definitively committed to flip that up. expect updates, soon, very very soon...

February 20, 2007

see conference 2007

April 21st, I will be speaking at the second edition of the see conference in Wiesbaden, Germany.

February 20, 2007

FITC Toronto 2007

April 22-24. I'm really excited about coming down to Toronto again. Come meet all your favorite artists! Really big names this year. more info over here.

November 12, 2006

FITC Winnipeg 2006

Saturday, November 25th, 2006, I'll be presenting new work at FITC Winnipeg. Looking forward to see you there:)

August 22, 2006

Flash on the Beach 2006

Brighton, UK December 4-6th 2006. I will be speaking at Flash on the Beach. 3 days of complete coolness, sipping cocktails and enjoying the wonderfull winter breeze by the beach. Check out the amazing speaker line up.

July 17, 2006

Phidgets AS3

Here's an Alpha AS3 rewrite of the AS2 phidgets Library. It's still very early on the developing process, but I thought I'd give everyone who might be interested a quick peek of what you can do with it.

May 06, 2006

Interactive Interior exhibition

Old news, but I thought it was worth mentioning. During the first 2 weeks of the opening of the first physical Beyes shop at the recently finished Omotesando Hills in Tokyo, we held a small exhibition together with nanika, wowlab+wildcard,Takashi Kamada and semitransparent design. Produced and curated by Koichiro Tanaka. I had a great time creating one of the pieces that was cycled among the others every day. Although the exhibition is officially over now, the installations are still being rotated every day in the store, so if you happen to be in the area, be sure to check it out.