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.

May 05, 2006

OFFF Barcelona

I will be presenting together with the amazing Jonathan Harris in the upcoming OFFF festival in Barcelona (May 11,12, 13). We'll both be talking about creative ways to play with information. Please come and say hi! I'd also like to take the opportunity to mention I've been really bussy with real work (the type that helps pay the bills) so that's why you haven't seen much updates here lately. Still creative steam has been piling up and you'll be able to see tons of new stuff around. Also If you've sent me an email and haven't heard back from me yet, please, please ping me again. I've just spent the last 3 days replying to old emails and I'm not through even half of it yet.

October 29, 2005

Embedding fonts in AS3

I love this! ... library, be-gone!

package {
	
import flash.util.describeType;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.text.AntiAliasType;
  
   public class Test extends MovieClip {
    
      // be sure this is pointing to a ttf font in your hardrive
      [Embed(source="C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\somefont.ttf", fontFamily="foo")] 
      public var bar:String;
      			
      public function Test() {
                	
          var format:TextFormat	      = new TextFormat();
          format.font		      = "foo";
          format.color                = 0xFFFFFF;
          format.size                 = 130;
						
          var label:TextField         = new TextField();
          label.embedFonts            = true;
          label.autoSize              = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
          label.antiAliasType         = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
          label.defaultTextFormat     = format;
          label.text                  = "Hello World!";
          addChild(label);
       }
    }
}

October 29, 2005

AS3: attachMovieClip() no more!

aaah, "attachMovieClip"... just the sound of it sounds so retro already. plus... the library?! who the heck needs a library anymore? kiss the library bye-bye!! I'm sure we are going to remember these days with a lot of nostalgia.

package {
   import flash.display.MovieClip;
   import flash.display.StageAlign;
   import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
   public class Test extends MovieClip {
      // be sure this is pointing to an image in your hardrive
      [Embed(source='c:\images\whatsup.jpg')] public var MyImage:Class;
      public function Test() {
         stage.align     = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
         stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
         var img:MyImage = new MyImage();
         addChild(img);
      }
   }
}

October 11, 2005

MAX Korea 2005

it's happening! Soul, November 15th-16th. I will be presenting along a fantastic cast of speakers, among them my favorites Jared Tarbel, and super vato loco Dr. Woohoo. So much anticipation for this one, I seriously can't wait for some real kimchi!

October 11, 2005

MAX Singapore 2005

I will be presenting in the forthcoming MAX Singapore conference, to be held on the 10 and 11 November 2005 at the Meritus Mandarin Singapore Hotel.

October 11, 2005

speaking at Bergen National Academy of the Arts

October 17th, I will be giving a presentation on Interactive Information Visualization to the students of Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway.

October 11, 2005

the death of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea

IDII no more. Last february, on an unprecedented and incomprehensible move, Telecom Italia, the biggest sponsor to Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, quit his sponsorship to the school. In the midst of the cloud of the debacle that generated, all teachers quit, and the school, as we know it, closed it's doors. Most of my classmates decided to embark themselves on a new project, a project that merged the remainings of IDII and Domus Academy. Hence, IDI was born. I decided to come back to Tokyo, and continue here working with my old workmates, Basement Factory Productions. Together, we are in the process of bringing alive a new company that will focus on producing the most outstanding work on communication design, interaction design and information visualization as well as seriously creative technological research and development. wooha! tough times ahead, but I'm definitively super excited.

June 21, 2005

FlashForward 2005 NY

I'll be giving a presentation on Aesthetics and Information Visualization at FlashForward 2005, New York (The New Yorker Hotel, New York, July 6-8). Looking forward to see you there!

June 05, 2005

MAX Korea 2005

UPDATE: Unfortunatelly seems like the event has been postponed until November. Please disregard this post for now. June 14th - 15th I'll be speaking alongside Colin Moock, Jared Tarbell, Drew Trujillo among others at Macromedia MAX Korea 2005 in Seoul.

April 18, 2005

FITC Awards 2005 Winners

The winners where finally posted. I'm proud to announce that Flickr Graph won the experimental category! I should probably mention that the night of the awards, to be sincere, I had almost zero hopes against Grant Skinner (who won for best Canadian Developer) - So much that the time they where opening the envelopes at the awards ceremony we where out having taco bell. aaah it was years since my last taco bell. So we finished our nasty burritos and went back to the ceremony, where Hoss was struggling with his voice and still messing up opening the wrong envelopes for the wrong categories. When we get in, everyone starts congratulating me. I thought they where kidding, but after the 6th person coming by and saying congrats! you won! where the heck where you?! I finally thought well, maybe it's true huh. - and it was. Hoss handed me over my award once everything was done, and we went drinking. The award yep, it looks reaaaaly nice! Thanks everyone! And of course kudos goes to ludicorp makers of flickr for making their API completely open and letting me play with it.

April 17, 2005

Flickr Graph wins FITC 2005

Winners for the 4th FITC awards where finaly posted. Flickr Graph wins the experimental category!

March 25, 2005

Finalist at FITC Awards

Flickrgraph is finalist under the experimental category in the 2005 FITC Awards! go over here to vote for the 'Viewers Choice Award'

March 02, 2005

SHIFT cover

Made the cover art for Shift, which was published a couple of days ago.

update

The cover seems to be gone, but the interview is still up