Stewart Smith is a graphic designer, programmer, and artist. Having recently moved to London from New York at the beginning of the year, Stewart runs his own studio called Stewdio and shares a work space with architect James Payne and fellow designer/coder/ artist Jürg Lehni in Dalston. Stewart studied graphic design at UConn and Yale and briefly taught a course called Visualizing Data at NYU before moving to the UK.
I’m storyboarding a music video for Swedish musician Tomas Halberstad. I’m also working on a data visualization piece with collaborator Robert Gerard Pietrusko for SFMoMA’s upcoming exhibition How Wine Became Modern. I’d love to launch the new Stewdio website this week, but it’s just not in the cards. (Next week, perhaps?) And of course, guest posting on It’s Nice That.
I’m not sure. I think that’s a question best fielded by a third party.
It’s a tie between sense of sight and sense of humor.
There’s nothing to tell.
Some of it.
Vacuum. I mean, I can spell it now of course, but it took me several years to come to terms emotionally with two U’s in such immediate proximity.
Sundowning is a syndrome involving the occurrence or increase of abnormal behaviors in a circadian rhythm and typically occurs during the late afternoon, evening, and night, hence the name. It occurs in persons with certain forms of dementia and psychosis, such as seen in Alzheimer’s disease. A person who is sundowning may exhibit mood swings, become abnormally demanding, suspicious, upset or disoriented, and see or hear things that are not there in the late afternoon and evening. After wandering, sundowning is the second most common type of disruptive behavior in institutionalized persons with dementia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundowning_(dementia
Now that I’m settled in the UK I’d very much like to teach again.
Sundowning.
Crumpler is a tool that allows one to fold over Adobe Illustrator vector drawings as if they were paper. It is Jürg Lehni’s latest addition to Scriptographer, a plugin for Illustrator that enables users to create new drawing tools and functionality through the use of JavaScript.
“Paul Graham”:"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(computer_programmer received his Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard and studied painting at RISD and in Florence. Best known as a programmer and venture capitalist in the US. (Among other things he invented Bayesian spam filters.) His 2004 book, Hackers and Painters, concerns itself with makers who must not only decide what to make, but how to make it. Both artist and engineer. It’s great conversational fodder for anyone running their own small graphic design studio, but particularly so for designers dabbling in the digital. While I disagree with some of Paul’s conclusions his efforts to demystify are admirable. And the chapter on being a nerd in high school brings a bit of comfort.
Seven mini-films for the satellite operator Astra, covering everything you need to know about the operation of a satellite. Created by This is Real Art.
