The Blog of Will Mayo

The Marketing Project is very hush hush at the moment, our group is just waiting for next monday to come around when we will reveal all in the presentation. And what a cracker it will be, looking at the other groups projects, we are in a different league.

Thank you to the idiot that told us the deadline was today, turns out it wasn’t but we finished up last night, so with a week to spare we can sit back and relax.

Yes, it’s going to look like this :)

After a couple of weeks creatively avoiding working on my negotiated project, the one I didn’t like, things have taken a turn and ideas are flowing again. Now I do like.

I call it Worn, simply because that word sums up exactly what the project will be. Traditionally webpages are static, every time a page loads a user can expect the same experience. But Worn is different, just by being on the page the user is affecting their experience, and of those who visit after them. Move the mouse, and you leave a faint mark. Scroll down, you make a scratch. Click on a link and you smudge the surface. Bash every key on the keyboard and you leave a dent, but just as soon as you become comfortable interacting you notice there is more. Layer upon layer to be discovered, decaying with time.

It’s an exploration of human-computer interaction, but also bringing a virtual object into the tactile world. To achieve this I will be researching generative and fractal art, to get some sense of naturalness into the object.

I come up with these things in my sleep it seems. But this time its the decider, which one do you like?

Been playing around with designs for the Clarity logo. There’s something about the yin-yang which I find pleasingly minimalist.

It lives in a browser, it eats pixels for breakfast, and mates with whatever ugly looking thing comes to it first. Can you guess what it is yet?

My Organism project.