Stewart Smith
Guest Posting 19 July – 23 July 2010
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.
What have you got planned this week?
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.
Who do you look like?
I’m not sure. I think that’s a question best fielded by a third party.
What’s your favourite sense?
It’s a tie between sense of sight and sense of humor.
Tell us something people don’t know about you…
There’s nothing to tell.
Did your education count?
Some of it.
What word can’t you spell?
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.
Tell us a good fact
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
What’s Next?
Now that I’m settled in the UK I’d very much like to teach again.
What’s your ‘Plan B’?
Sundowning.