EOS
Currently, I am in a full time role as Senior Design Strategy Lead for EOS – a world leading provider of 3D printing technology for large scale use.
I am leveraging the power of Strategic Design as a convincing agent of change – tackling challenges, testing ideas, and driving initiatives that help EOS prepare for the market, technology and workplace of the future.
Schloß Wiepersdorf Cultural Foundation
In Spring 2020 Schloß Wiepersdorf Cultural Foundation in Germany needed to reimagine how their famous artist residence programme could work remotely. Rachel Hill and I worked with the Foundation team to create a plan to combine immersive digital experience, curated artist-to-artist interaction, and online public showcase.
European Film Academy
In February 2020 I worked with the European Film Academy to do a digital UX review for one of their properties, the Young Audience Award. The review examined the YAA website using usability heuristics to highlight standards and best practice for web UX and featured inspiration for solution building from competitors in the field.
Ustwo & Adidas
In September ‘19 I worked with Ustwo to produce and facilitate a workshop for Adidas in Herzogenaurach, Germany. We helped the Customer Acquisition Team come up with new features and use-cases for an internal enterprise solution.
Product Principles
I created a series of 12 principles to help guide the Koerber Digital Product Team in their quest to build sound innovative products in industrial machine manufacturing.
The principles gave context-specific guidance to create a manifesto the Koerber team could use to sense-check their early stage product ideas and resolve conflict with stakeholders.
Helping Art come to Life
“ArtMinute” is a series of animated films that encourages young people to take a new perspective on classic Danish painters of the 18th and 19th century. Produced by Die Asta and Zentropa for Brandts Museum, I was the Art Director for the first film that tells the story of the creative and human journey that Jens Juel took, to become known as the father of Danish portraiture.
Time Portal Interactive
How do you get young people to engage more deeply with historical artworks in a museum setting? I designed an interactive learning tool experience piloted at the Johannes Larsen Museum in Denmark, that uses the metaphor of a “time-portal” to transport kids into the time of life of the artist and subject.
Experiments in Youth Civic Engagement in Jordan
Working with Die Asta and the local digital innovation team at TechTribes to facilitate research and novel concept development for digital routes to better civic engagement by young people in the Middle East region. We held ideation workshops with the Liwan Youth Project in Amman, Jordan, as a pilot collaborator and developed a new format for interactive campaigns. Project commissioned by ActionAid Denmark.
Forgotten Formats & The V&A
My artwork ‘Forgotten Formats’ was selected by V&A Digital Programmes to be showcased in an exhibition called MozEx: a collaboration between Mozilla, Tate and The V&A.
The Future of the Internet @ Mozfest
At the Mozilla Festival in 2017, I designed and facilitated workshops for young people to express their concerns and hopes for the future of the internet. Participants designed their own ‘flags’ from pre-cut shapes that afterwards hung in an exhibition at the festival and online.
Yorkshire Festival
For the Yorkshire Festival composer Gavin Bryars and poet Blake Morrison joined forces to create a new audio piece to be experienced on the stopping train journey from Goole (Bryars’ birthplace) to Hull (or vice versa). I teamed up with the producers to publish a podcast for ‘Sonic Journeys’. ↝ Listen on iTunes
Innovate UK
In 2017 I worked with the InnovateUK to create new workshop materials that are now used to help refine and develop emerging opportunities for innovation considering four key factors of People, Players, Process and Product.
TeleSur News Platform
I designed a responsive news platform to help TeleSur, one of South America’s largest broadcasters, expand into a multilingual news service. Working with Jason DaPonte we combined a comprehensive market analysis with extensive user research to realign the digital offering of the lead broadcaster in the region.
National Youth Dance Company
I designed a digital refresh for the National Youth Dance Company at Sadlers Wells in London. I created a responsive site design native to mobile and ipad with a clearer user-focus that has resulted in more dancer applications while satisfying the many needs of the company and administration at Sadler's Wells.
Nesta & The Arts Council
In 2015/2016, I co-facilitated 16 workshops throughout England & Wales for Nesta & The Arts Council England, to prepare applicants for a £7m Digital Research & Development Fund for the Arts.
BBC R&D
BBC Connected Studios marks a new approach to delivering innovation across the BBC, asking independent tech experts to help them prototype new ideas and optimise BBC digital media products for the future. Here's a preview of the some of the work I've done with them.
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Nokia Music & Sundance
In 2015 Nokia Music + Sundance Channel launched a series of films investigating underground music scenes in various cities around the United States. I created a site with full screen video backgrounds and unique remixable soundtracks, encouraging users to immerse themselves in the different scenes to full effect.
Deadline Athens
Winning multimedia project of the year 2014 from the Danish Press Association, I led the interactive design for a first person journalistic documentary game for Save the Children. Users “control” a real journalist to make gather information for a report about Afghani children feeling conflict and seeking shelter in Athens.
Fidelity Design Explorations
Worked with the Fidelity International’s Global Content Editor to investigate an updated digital look and feel that would break the mould for financial editorial online, and establish a more contemporary content strategy.
ifLab iDoc Incubator
My friends at ifLab London invited me to be part of a panel of 8 digital professionals to review the results of a two week incubator for new interactive documentary. Five exciting iDoc ideas were pitched, all using the internet to tell their story in a unique way.
Digital Summer Camp
In 2014 I was invited by Hackney Council in London to contribute at a week long initiative by the borough to encourage more local young people to consider a career in the digital space. I presented my work, hosted Q&A sessions and held ideation taster sessions for visiting school classes between the ages of 12 and 14.
Swim, Malmö University
Swim is a digital storytelling lab hosted at Malmö University in Sweden that gets artists, filmmakers, & producers to work together for 6 weeks. I worked as a prototyping mentor at Swim, to help them move their concepts from collected thoughts to working realities, ready to pitch to funders.
The World Brain
Created as a facebook app to promote PolarStar Film’s new documentary, “Google and the World Brain”, the World Brain experience leads the player through an increasingly sinister set of questions, designed to get people to think about how they share their data online.
Crossmedia Zen
In June 2014 I facilitated a two day workshop with Asta Wellejus at the 2014 CrossMedia Zen Conference in Lithuania. It was a great opportunity to meet not only the other speakers from major broadcasters across Europe but also to be inspired by the local interactive media producers, directors, commissioners working in the Baltic Area.