We were commission by event collective I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night to make an installation to sit in the Vintage at Goodwood Festival in The Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank. Our response was this piano that traced people position and depth in the space and played combinations of notes and chords depending. Check the video, yeah?

A project we’ve been working on in the past months is Think Work Play. This is very much a collaboration between us, Sam Hill and Unity. The concept was that we wanted to explore more of the ways people generate and iterate ideas. How they explore and develope concepts. This was born from a belief that, now more than ever, design is more about ideas and process than it is about finished objects. The sponsor for the project is Pernod Absinthe, who have been great and a very relaxed client. Take a look here: think-work-play.com

A few weeks ago we helped our ex-tutors DWFE with their fantastically fun exhibition, Green=Boom. The installation sits somewhere between a criticism of media portrayal of violence and a managed cinematic experience. Anyway heres a video of the bomb prototyping process and a sneaky screen shot from the film that we will be releasing shortly, where we talk to them about the project.

We’re not normally in the habit of releasing code (purely because we doubt we do it as well as many other people), but thought it might be worth putting the processing/arduino code that we used for the countdown out there as didn’t seem very easy to find an example that did exactly what we were after:

int minutes, seconds, countmins, countsecs, diff, m;

int start = 0;
PFont fontA;

void setup(){
size(700, 250);
background(0);

frameRate(1);
fontA = loadFont(“FacsimileLL-200.vlw”);
textFont(fontA, 200);

}
void draw()
{
background(0);

m= millis()-start;

countmins = 1;
countsecs = 59;

diff = m/1000;
minutes = diff/60;
seconds = diff-minutes*60;

countmins = countmins – minutes;
countsecs = countsecs – seconds;

println(nf(countmins,2)+”:”+nf(countsecs,2));

fill(204,0,0);
text( (nf(countmins,2)+”:”+nf(countsecs,2)), 60, 200);

if(countmins < 1 && countsecs < 1){
delay(3000);
text(“05″+”:”+”00″);
println(“05″+”:”+”00″);
delay(1000);
countmins = 4;
countsecs = 59;
start = millis();
}
}

We were asked by Think Public to make an animated film that would explain the idea of prototyping. A film which they could use to explain the importance of an inclusive and experimental design process. This is the result. Read their blog post on it here: thinkpublic.com/prototyping-made-simple/

I saw this a wile ago and thought it was beautiful but forgot to post it.

Another amazing project by the people at MADE

This week, we played with Berg’s making future magic app to build our light trace name.

Weekly Ident. No.5 from DESIGNER'S FRONT on Vimeo.

An experiment with processing this week. We created an app that generates two random words from our initials. Clicking on one of the words takes you to an online dictionary with the definition of said word.

Sam made these prints for his dads birthday. One of them is having a fag, the other is holding a cheese grater.

VHS LOVE from DESIGNER'S FRONT on Vimeo.

Experimenting with a VHS style this week.