Category Archives: Inspiration

Here is the link to Barbarian, a company doing very interesting things, and trying innovative solutions: http://www.barbariangroup.com/ Their Magnetosphere visualizer for iTunes is quite amazing (link via Miska): http://software.barbariangroup.com/magnetosphere/ (Robert Hodgin from Flight404 is involved in the company)

Barcelona-based Onionlab combine commercial with artistic projects. They develop a lot with Processing, and focus on audio-visual work. Website: http://www.onionlab.com/ Visuals: http://www.onionlab.com/visuals.html

Really interesting flash project done by Mika Tyyskä. http://www.guitarshredshow.com/

Yahoo is conducting some very interesting exploratory projects: http://design.yahoo.com (via my colleagues at Fjord)

Some links about information visualization: http://www.infosthetics.com http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ http://www.processingblogs.org/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/ (mostly reposted from this post by Miska Knapek)

A game used in advertising for BMW, I think it was related also to a banner that worked asa teaser. I’ts an interesting use of Flash as a game, also it brings a new visual approach for this kind of … Continue reading →

I’m sure that if you are visiting a blog called “media+code”, you already know the work of John Maeda. Anyway, it might be useful to collect some links to his work in a entry. About John Maeda: John Maeda is … Continue reading →

Marius Watz has been developing an impressive work, mainly involving generative visuals. He gave a memorable presantation on this year’s edition of PixelAche Festival. From Rhizome.org: Marius Watz works with computational form, writing custom software to create visual systems for … Continue reading →

Here are some favourite ‘blogs about projects/mediacode’: http://www.infosthetics.com http://http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ http://www.processingblogs.org/ On more of a ‘meta-level’: http://generatorx.no/ http://we-make-money-not-art.com/ http://artificial.dk/ http://dataisnature.com/ And here are some coding artists I find interesting: Lia: http://re-move.org/ http://lia.sil.at/ Casey Reaves: http://reas.com/ http://www.groupc.net/ Ben Fry: http://www.benfry.com/ Golan Levin: … Continue reading →