I’ll be teaching another workshop on creative coding at the end of the month! Join us, and learn to use Processing to create your own interactive, digital art. Details at gaffta.org.

Practice, my MFA thesis project, will be set up for you to explore this Friday in the Mission District of San Francisco.

Practice is both a work of interactive video art and a design research project.

Unlike most other works of this medium, it does not reward bodily motion and exaggerated gestures, but encourages patience and self-reflection. In so doing, it explores the tension between emotional engagement and the uncomfortable ambiguity of not knowing what will happen next.

Friday, February 12

About 9:00 – 11:00pm

16th St. and Guerrero St., NE corner (Map)

In the event of rain, the piece will be installed the next night, Saturday, 2/13.

I’ll have an interactive installation set up at the “American Cheese” show this Thursday at MassArt. If you’ll be in Boston, stop by for grilled cheese sandwiches and high-tech, low-brow art. More info on the website.

While working on deep ocean graphics for a client, I inadvertently created something more cloud-like.

It’s up! Check out the home page, now re-envisioned as an interactive portfolio of recent projects. Let me know what you think via the new “contact” link.

Nearly every error message on the web shows up in the color red. Something about red just screams “warning! alert! fire!” So what’s a web designer to do when red is already prominent in the design?

Virgin America chose purple. Since Virgin’s colors are red and white, a red error message would have been invisible. But this purple-pink gradient stands out well enough and, unlike red, it doesn’t aggravate the reader. If anything, it has a calming effect, mirroring the peaceful violet interiors of Virgin’s planes.

LAIKA is a new, dynamic typeface, designed and constructed by Nicolas Kunz and Michael Flückiger. The genius here is that visual elements of the face (such as weight, serif prominence, and italic degree) are reframed as parameters, into which can be fed values from any source — either your own keyboard, or something more interesting like weight or distance sensors, so the visual typographic form can respond to physical factors in an installation environment. Try it out!

Remember when AOL leaked 650,000 of its users’ search queries? For the first time, we got to see what real people search for on the web.

Now, thanks to Search Suggestion technology by Google, Yahoo, and others, you don’t have to wait for a corporate screw-up to expose search queries — you can do it yourself! Just type a few letters, and watch the most popular searches appear on top.