The official beginning of my research

October 20, 2011 | Category: - Research Journal,Featured Posts |

I have been balancing so many things since I got back from Lincoln, I haven’t had much time to post anything on my blog. Now things seem to be calming down a bit so I’ve decided to update the blog a bit.

After reading Gray and Malins’ Visualizing Research and Gina Wisker’s Postgraduate Research Handbook I feel ready to star posting on what will be my online weekly research journal. This is the first of what I hope will be a series of posts that will embrace some of the work I’m researching, to help me keep a chronological evolution of my research and hopefully get some feedback from the web community.

This is a place where my thoughts will get collected, filtered and revised.

Before I start I have to “plan the journey” so I’ve worked on defining and clarifying the title, and asking myself some very important questions: What do I want to research? Why? How? And the most awkward one; so what?

So what is my research about? This is the first topic I’ll be tackling this week. Read more …

A year in a box

May 17, 2011 | Category: Featured Posts,Graphic Design,Interactive Design |

Finally after nine months, my Interactive Design course has come to an end. It has been a great year full of experiences where I’ve met lots of new people, visited many new places and have worked on various projects.

For my final assessment hand-in, I had to present all my year’s work in a clean and professional way so I thought making some prints and putting them in a nice black box together with my sketchbook would be a good way to show the work done during the year. Read more …

Meet Floris!

April 8, 2011 | Category: Featured Posts,Interactive Design,· Interactive Design |

Meet Floris, my new pet plant. It’s an interactive, self sustaining, light reactive, cybernetic plant.
I created Floris as a project for my Interactive Design (BAhons) at the University of Lincoln.

I wanted to make a simple interactuve device that would get people to play and experience things, but also trigger emotions and make people feel happy. Read more …

Freezing time at high speed

March 15, 2011 | Category: Featured Posts,Interactive Design,Photography,· Interactive Design,· Photography |

Wouldn’t it be great to freeze time at the exact moment to see a rain drop create splash? Every day little things like this surround us and most of the time we don’t even realize, most of the time because they happen at such a high speed we can’t see them.

We decided to rig up a sensor that would detect the exact moment when the drop created the splash. We pointed a laser light at a Light Dependent Resistor so that it would read its maximum value. Read more …

Project Sphera

January 30, 2011 | Category: Featured Posts,Interactive Design |

Here’s a quick update. I’ve been working now for some time with colleagues Joan Planas and Ruben Lojo on an interactive project for the University of Lincoln, and it’s now beginning to take interesting shape. For this project we want to try and understand natural intuitive interfaces and find out how users move around them. We want to engage communication with the audience by making them interact with a new device: a sphere.

You can find out more about the project here! Read more …

Flux – Interactive Design Show

December 11, 2010 | Category: Featured Posts,Graphic Design,Interactive Design,· Interactive Design |

Fluidity, mutability, flexibility, change, instability, fluctuation, unrest, variability… all synonyms of FLUX, but none of them sound as cool!

This project consisted on creating an show room proposal for the final year show. The show is aimed at a general public like mums and dads, families, future students, and professionals such as other designers, illustrators, photographers…

This show will be all about Interactive Design, so people understand what INTERACTIVE is, and what we do in this career.

The Spermatron

December 5, 2010 | Category: Featured Posts,Interactive Design,· Interactive Design |

One of my latest projects was come up with an idea which would affect a community in a positive way. For our community project, me and Joan Planas decided to help NAT (National AIDS Trust) by raising money on the World Aids Day, which was on the 1^st of December, with an interactive event at the Engine Shed getting people to compete on our Sperm Race Game.

New links, on both the NAT and World AIDS Day websites:

NAT: http://www.nat.org.uk/Support-NAT/Fundraising-ideas.aspx

WAD: http://www.worldaidsday.org/Do-Something/Ideas-for-fundraising/at-university.aspx

Flash, AS2 and the Tween Class

October 26, 2010 | Category: Featured Posts,General Topics |

Today is one of those days when after working really hard all day, you finally end up with something that looks pretty cool!

I’ve been messing arround with the Tween Class in Flash, and thanks to my mate Joan I’ve managed to introduce some really nice looking animations and transitions, all programed from the first frame (blah, blah, code talk… sorry about that).

Anyway, I feel so happy with the result I thought of putting up this post and encouraging people to give it a try! Read more …

Experimenting with Realflow 5 and Maya Mental Ray

October 8, 2010 | Category: 3D Computer Graphics,Featured Posts |

I’ve allways wanted to work with 3D fluids and for my next project I thougth it would look cool to get a similar look to some of Dvein’s stuff.

I’ll be posting some more renders as soon as I have them.

Lincoln, my new home for a year

September 15, 2010 | Category: Featured Posts,General Topics |

I’ll be spending some time in Lincoln (UK) to finish my Interactive Design BA (hons) Degree.

I’ll be posting my new projects on the blog so you guys can catch some of the cool stuff I’ll be working on.

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