Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Brendan Dawes is a designer who explores the interaction of objects, people, technology, and art using a mix of digital and analog materials. His site, brendandawes.com, features ideas, toys, and projects created from the amalgamation of digital and analog material.


Taking many forms, his projects thus far include iPhone apps, posters, books, electronic circuits, and plastic, including Doodlebuzz, a news interface which won a D&AD award for interface design; The Accidental News Explorer, an iPhone application featured amongst eighty projects in the Taschen book Mobile Case Studies in 2011; Psycho Studio, a flash video editor; Saul Bass on the Web, an online homage to the graphic design legend Saul Bass; Cinema Redux™ , an application that distills whole movies down to single images; The Happiness Machine, a small internet-connected printer featured at the London Design Festival and in the Wired store in New York; MoviePeg, a simple stand for the iPhone; and Popa, a physical button for the iPhone.


Dawes’s work has been featured in numerous journals, including idN, Creative Review, MacUser, Computer Arts, Create, Wired, Eye, The Guardian, Forbes, Fast Company, The Times,  and Communications Arts. He was interviewed by Computer Arts in December 2008 for their ""Design Icon"" series  and has been featured in various books including Thoughts on Information Design, Infographics - Designing and Visualising Data, Play Matters, New Masters of Flash, In Your Face Too - the best of interactive interface design, Flash deConstruction: The Process, Design, and ActionScript of Juxt Interactive, Personal Web Sites, The Digital Canvas, Graphic Design: The New Basics, and Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools. In October 2006, he published ""Analog In, Digital Out"" - an eclectic mix of anecdotes, observations, and thoughts on technology and interaction design, inspired by the world around him.


Dawes is a also a regular speaker at events and conferences that include the HOW Design Conference Chicago, Flashforward New York, New Media Age Congress London, South by Southwest Austin, Microsoft Research Redmond, Macromedia Web World Seattle, Art Directors Club of Spain, Madrid, Europrix Vienna, Voices that Matter San Francisco, Future of Web Design London, Internet World Los Angeles while also lecturing at universities around the U.K. He also sits on the advisory board for Manchester School of Art and has been a jury member for several award bodies including the Art Directors Club in New York, D&AD, and the iF Design Awards.