Interactive Design II – Week 15

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Session 1: This week we will be having Final Web Application feedback and critiques during both sessions. Please be prepared to present your work during your assigned session.

Session 2: Final Web Application feedback and critiques continued.

12 thoughts on “Interactive Design II – Week 15”

  1. For the interactive artist google-fu assignment, I researched Daan Roosegaarde, because he has a lot of extra unnecessary letters in his name, which is awesome. Here is the link to his website: https://www.studioroosegaarde.net/projects/#smog-free-project. He makes a lot of interactive art using lights. For instance he created a pathway resembling Van Gogh’s Starry Night. He creates a lot of high-tech interactive environments in which the viewer and the art become one.

  2. This post is for the weekly google-fu assignment. I found this website:

    http://css-tricks.com/add-page-transitions-css-smoothstate-js/

    This shows how to make a smoother transition between pages by using a jquery plug-in called “smoothState.js” It can get rid of “white flashes” and “hard cuts.”

    This next link takes you to the place where I learned how to make my shaking advertisement box on a previous website I made:

    http://www.cssreset.com/css3-webkit-animation-shake-links/

    The tutorial teaches you how to make links shake, but it works just as well on other things too. Great user interface generally involves a lot of shaking images and links when you hover over them, so this is useful.

    This website is a good example of how to introduce your website to people the right way. (Make sure you have your sound turned on).

    http://www.boogiejack.com/add_sound.html

  3. DON RITTER
    -Don Ritter is a Canadian artist living in Hong Kong, but his work is all over the world. He is a digital media artist and does a lot of interactive installations that include lights, video, and sound. One of his most famous interactive installations is called “Intersection” (1993), and it is where you stand/walk through a big dark room and there are sounds of four lanes of traffic and as you walk across the lanes the cars screech to a halt and cars behind it crash into the back of it.

    http://aesthetic-machinery.com/installations.html

  4. Shigeru Miyamoto

    -A Japanese artist and Game designer, Best known for creating the most popular game series in the world Super Mario Brothers (1985), along with the Hit Arcade Game Donkey Kong (1981). He is also a avid musician playing Guitar, Mandolin and Banjo and enjoying bluegrass of all sorts. He has used this music influence to design the interactive music game known as Wii Music.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto

  5. Scott Sona Snibbe

    Is a digital artist whose art features apps, videos and interactive instillation’s. His art is a permanent collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2014), along with temporary displays in airports, museums and other public events and places. He is now the CEO of a music video start up called Eyegroove and an advisor at The Institute for the Future and the Sundance Institute. His work features many silhouette figures doing some sort of interaction either a recording of the viewer or a placement that is just made for watching.

    http://www.snibbe.com/

  6. For this assignment I immediately thought of Karl Marc and how he made the first interactive tattoo. (seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3qv2dSXQXk) I am a huge fan of tattoo’s and tattoo culture so when I saw this I was shocked and thought that this brought a culture that is very old into a more futuristic interactive way. Though I enjoy more traditional styles and methods of tattooing I couldn’t help but find this neat.

    Karl Marc has been Tattooing for 14 years, and lives in France. On June the 16th 2011 Paris based tattoo artist K.A.R.L. realized the first ever animated tattoo. Streamed live on Facebook, users accessed his mind through the Human API, shared his thoughts and influenced the tattoo.

  7. Russ Maschmeyer. Is an interaction and product designer and is currently employed at Facebook. He got his MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He created for his graduate thesis, Motiv.

    “MOTIV, is an open source application that uses the Kinect hardware to give digital musicians direct control of emotional expression in their music by interpreting their gestures in real-time.”

    http://www.strangenative.com/motiv/

    Russ also alongside his designer wife Jessica Hische, they also teach CSS and HTML to people who do not know much about it. They have segments online called Don’t Fear the Internet.

  8. http://www.newrafael.com/websites

    The artist that first came to mind for this assignment is Rafaël Rozendaal, an artist who uses websites, lenticular paintings, poems, writings, and installations. Some of his websites require the users’ interaction but some of them just do things on the screen as you watch them. He has a lot of well known exhibitions including The World’s Biggest Kiss at Seoul Square, Korea.

  9. An interactive designer that I think has gone greatly unnoticed is Justin Edmund. His career began before he even graduated from Carnegie Melon as an intern for Facebook’s creative team. Since then he has played a crucial role in the UX and interface design of Pinterest. Ever since Pinterest was first launched many web and UX designer’s have found themselves referring to other websites as being “the Pinterest of…” Pinterest has become the visual template for so many websites that are seen today. It’s simplicity, grid layout and strong emphasis of imagery set the bar very high for future web innovation.
    http://www.jedmund.com/

  10. For my interactive artist I chose Camille Utterback, or more specifically her project titled Text Rain. This interactive project encouraged viewers to place themselves in front of a projection screen. Their image is mirrored and they are able to “catch” falling letters and interact with them. The letters themselves are seemingly random but come from lines of poetry.

    http://camilleutterback.com/projects/text-rain/

  11. Rachel Smith

    One of the reasons I enjoy this web designer is because she is young and has just got her start within the last couple years and she does good work. She does front end design work. Her style using css and Javascript make for a user experience that is new and contemporary. The environments that she creates is something I would like to experiment in.

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