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This is responsive
I finally made this site responsive. It had been haunting me for a while, but I kept putting it off, since I expected it to be a time consuming project to go through. Well, I was wrong and I should … Continue reading
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Tagged CSS, interaction design, interface design, JS, programming, responsive, web
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First year of Vintage Galleria
The story of starting up a vintage furniture store from my perspective.
NEDS – North European Design Symposium
I had the chance to spend one day at the NEDS symposium, which was organized for the first time this year. I was left with mixed feelings about the day.
Virtual toilet wall becomes mGraffiti
Futurice has picked my original Virtual toilet wall concept for the Nokia Ideas Project: http://www.ideasproject.com/ideas/9881 and they have made it into an app called mGraffiti, for both Windows Phone and Symbian.
Suomen Kardiologiset Hoitajat
Website design for the Finnish Association for Cardiac Nurses.
Mobile websites vs. responsive design
Vierityspalkki organized this morning seminar for the second time on friday 16.6. The event was hosted by SC5.
Great success for team Crasman at High Tech Run
The first ever High Tech Run event was organized in Otaniemi by Tietoviikko. 53 teams participated in the 5 runner, 26 kilometer relay run. Our team performed splendidly, finishing in the 5th place with the total time 1:54:10.
Vintage Galleria
Graphic identity, web design and web development for a vintage furniture store based in Helsinki.
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Tagged Business cards, Display window stickers, Drupal, graphic design, Graphic identity, GUI, web
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No more Bolder
As the year comes to an end, so does our time together at Bolder. On monday 2.1.2012 I’ve started at my new job at N2.
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Touchscreen project
We are building a rear projection touchscreen hardware/software setup for an art installation. Our group consists of three people: media artist Heidi Tikka, architect Jaakko Pesonen and myself. I will post updates on the stages of the project in this thread.
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Tagged hardware, Infra red, interaction design, interface design, programming, touchscreen, video projection
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2011 Provoking the city—touch installations for urban space
Heidi Tikka, Sandra Viña, Giulio Jacucci & Teemu Korpilahti (2011): Provoking the city—touch installations for urban space, Digital Creativity, 22:3, 200-214. Article.
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More about the Virtual Toilet Wall
Here’s the actual concept I mentioned previously, which I posted to the Nokia Ideas Project.
CheckLikes
CheckLikes is an iPhone Air application that can be used to get Facebook data about any URL address through a FQL http query.
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Tagged Air, AS3, Facebook, flash, FQL, GUI, interaction design, interface design, iPhone, programming
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2011 Nokia World Hackathon
My Concept “Virtual Toilet Wall” was chosen to Nokia World 2011 Hackathon. You can read more about it here.
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Facebook likes FQL Flash reader
Here’s a small example Flash file for getting the number of likes, shares and mentions of any Url from Facebook, using a FQL http query.
Free lens macro photography
I tried taking some free lens macro photos. I used a 52mm solid lens that I held backwards in front of my Nikon D7000.
Jakob Nielsen – Usability of iPad Apps and Websites
Jakob Nielsen and Raluca Budiu, recently published the 2nd edition of their report on the usability of iPad apps and websites. You can find it online here. The 129 page report uses a set of casestudies to illustrate the dos and … Continue reading
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Tagged GUI, interaction design, interface design, iPad, Jakob Nielsen, touch screen
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The Use of Storytelling in Music Artist Promotion
I just finished reading Pekka Hartikainen’s thesis: “The Use of Storytelling in Music Artist Promotion”. It’s a study that describes how contemporary musicians are becoming increasingly active and available for their fans, and using storytelling to build their character. Hartikainen … Continue reading
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Tagged Aalto University, Media Lab, music, promotion, storytelling, TAIK, Thesis
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Working full time at Bolder
Starting this monday I’m working full time at Bolder.
Unperformed – Installation / Performance tool
We developed this experimental tool in Crucible Studio for controlling multiple projection screens. The system was developed for an opera set design.
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Tagged AS3, flash, GUI, interaction design, interface design, LAN, OSC, programming, set design, video projection
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Flash font embedding
Having trouble with dynamic font embedding and CSS styles in AS3/Flash CS5?
New website
So I finally redesigned my website. In the new site I wanted to reconsider the focus of the pages. I removed some unnecessary pages and combined others. I also wanted a proper blog section. Perhaps this way I’ll be more … Continue reading
2010 Metropolia
Visiting teacher, AS3 programming workshops at Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences.
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2010 From Physical to Non-Material Art – ICIDS
Third International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling November 1st – 3rd 2010 Edinburgh UK. My paper.
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Instant photo annotation
Within the time of two weeks, I’ve heard engineers and researchers in two different conferences (ACM & ICIDS) talking about the importance of annotation and ontologies. In the case of personal photography this would mean adding metadata to pictures about … Continue reading
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2010 ACM Multimedia Art Exhibit Colorito
The Alan01 installation was exhibited 26.10.-06.11. in Palazzo Médici Riccardi, Firenze, Italy. Conference website.
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The Holy Grail of hiding the mouse cursor in OS X
This is perhaps a bit off the topic I’ve set for this page, but… I recently ran into the most surprising problem, one which I couldn’t find a solution to anywhere on the internet. I needed to automatically hide the … Continue reading
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At Hand
Heidi Tikka’s At Hand is an interactive piece designed for touch screens in public space. The project is about urban gestures, micro spaces of the street and the possibility of encountering otherness.
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Tagged AS3, flash, interaction design, interface design, programming
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