Data art
Every so often I make something out of data. Most of them started as a two-day sketch, and a few got shown somewhere.
5 of them, so far
Year of ColourJan 2018 →
Your year on Instagram as a palette. Over a million people had theirs read.
Over a million people had a Year of Colour report. Product Hunt's #5 product of the day on 1 January 2019, then a wave of press that week led by The Verge.
Gesture-controlled viewer for Andrew Lamb's Lenticular Changing Colour RingSep 2015 – Nov 2015
A headset piece letting exhibition visitors examine a ring too intricate for the eye — the view moved by the wearer's own hand, tracked in mid-air.
Exhibited at A Sense of Jewellery, the Goldsmiths' Centre, London, 15 September – 19 November 2015, as part of the London Design Festival.
CryptographicsAug 2013
Cryptoquilt: quilts, prints and t-shirts that turn anything holding an image into something that also holds hidden data
Data NecklaceSep 2012
A laser-cut, laser-etched acrylic necklace that displays your tweets as a data visualisation.
Picked by the judges as one of the pieces to be exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery the following month, and went on to appear on the BBC Technology homepage for the day.
Name in LightsMar 2007 – May 2007
A UK-wide competition for a member of the public to have their name made into fifteen-foot Hollywood-style lettering and lit up on a Birmingham landmark.
Webby Award Honoree.
