Stefan Goodchild

Tone Matrix by Andre Michelle

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My obsession with the Monome and the Tenori-On continues unabated but I can get my virtual fix now thanks to Andre Michelle and his Tone Matrix

Audio Reactive Snakes by Flight 404

New set of experiments from Flight 404 are surfacing on Vimeo. As always they are stunning. Reminds me that I really need to look into GLSL shaders in Processing

7 Things

Like all memes the 7 things is a bit of pointless fun and this one seems like it may shed a little light on my murky past. It’s harder than you think as this is stuff I’ve probably mentioned to most people I know already so feel odd saying it again but hey…
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Helvetica, Of Course

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Was pointed at this UK advert for Helvetica by a post on Daring Fireball and wanted it for my wall. Spent an evening kerning to match the original poster and pushed the images a bit to counter the lowish res scan then added in some red to honour the swiss origins of the infamous typeface.

You can download a zip file containing an A4 and a Letter sized PDF from here.

Design by Dieter Rams

Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.

Dieter Rams, 1993

My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.

Dieter Rams, 1980

via Monoscope

Gegenlicht (back-light) by Moka

Amazing realtime volumetric video done in openframeworks by Moka. I love lighting effects more than anything and this just strips it down to the pure volumetric lighting goodness using GLSL shaders.

A Thousand Words by Ted Chung

Utterly gorgeous.

Akai APC40

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One word.

Want.

I Feel A T-Shirt Coming On

Delia Derbyshire

Spent some of the weekend fine tuning this trace of a famous image of Delia Derbyshire. Now I need to find some way of getting it onto a T-Shirt.