Play Auditorium – An Exercise in Play and Creativity

Play Auditorium is a spectacular puzzle game created in Flash by CipherPrime.
It combines excellent graphic design with an intuitive and simple interface and a fascinating puzzle concept.
The concept centers around redirecting a stream of sound particles to VU meters using directional objects.  When all of the VU meters on the level are maxxed out you [...]

Get a plan?

When someone asks you if you have a plan, a “long-term plan” for what you want to do with your life, do you have an answer?
I stumbled through something like an explanation but really I don’t have one.
I have this goal to live my life the way I want to – without the limitations of [...]

Tim Brown on Creativity and Play

This is a great presentation by Tim Brown, the CEO of Ideo, on the role creativity and play should have in the design process and the work environment.  It is fascinating to explore how we often leave the openness of play behind as we become adults.  That it is that willingness to make believe which [...]

design and pretend

Somewhere along the line I became a graphic designer.  It was somewhere between sleeping in till noon and being woken up by a text message and a shower only an hour or so later that I went from a regular technology hobbyist who apparently worked IT to a freelance graphic designer.
At first I was horrified.  [...]