Update: Jan 20, 2012 My appologies for not updating this site lately. Flipboard has been keeping me a little busy. I'll try to work something out here soon, but in the meantime, you might want to say hello on Twitter, browse through a few photos here or peek into what it is like designing Flipboard.

the life and work of Marcos Weskamp

Marcos Weskamp is a Design Engineer who has a deep interest in playing with and visualizing lots of data. He is a self-taught technologist who constantly investigates the fields of Interaction Design and Information Visualization.

In March 2010, Marcos joined a ~~yet-to-be-named~~ startup in Palo Alto, where he designs, sketches, codes, serves coffee, washes dishes and leads the User Experience vision of a product that's going to be so awesome, it's going to blow your pants off.

Marcos is based in Palo Alto, California, where right now it is Wed May 22, 4:40am and the weather is Fair.
contact: marcos@marumushi.com

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Dune House by Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Architects | October 2011
Barcode House by David Jameson | October 2011
On the Corner | October 2011
Looks Cool, But What Does It Actually Shelter? | October 2011
Wall Photos | Facebook | October 2011
La Fontaine Apartment \ Esrawe Studio | October 2011
The HI-MACS® House in Bavaria, Germany | October 2011
Ravenscroft Desk by Leonhard Pfeifer | October 2011
Coldwater Studio by Casey Hughes Architects | September 2011
A Unique LA Home With Arcade Wall Graphics | September 2011

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recent trips

Returned from a trip to Prescott. | February 2010
Started a trip to Prescott. | February 2010
Returned from a trip to Los Angeles. | October 2009
Started a trip to Los Angeles. | October 2009
Returned from a trip to New York. | February 2009

news / Information Visualization: a personal retrospective

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."

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