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Welcome, Sherri Nevins! Q&A with Stimulant’s New Executive Producer

  We’re thrilled to welcome Sherri to the Stimulant team. Sherri brings a world of experience and expertise in planning and managing digital installation projects on a wide variety of scales. If we’re lucky enough to be collaborating with you on a project, you’ll have the pleasure of hearing her jovial voice guiding you through our process…

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Trendspotting: Robots + Ribbons

We’ve been completely mesmerized watching these digitally-driven kinetic expressions this week. Please let us know when the 4K 1000fps director’s cut of each is available, thank you. “A device that automatically and continuously records and plays back movement. From reading the movements that it plays back—movements that resemble those of an organism that does not…

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Judging the Adobe Design Achievement Awards

Hi all, Nathan here. As Stimulant’s design director, I was recently tapped to be one of the judges in the final round of the Adobe Design Achievement Awards on August 11 and 12, 2015. The final judging panel was filled with top talent, and both Stimulant and I are proud to have such esteemed company. The judging process…

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State of the Art: Transparent OLED Displays

We’ve used transparent LCDs in the past, and they’re pretty cool. Evocative of the “see through” user interfaces of science fiction films, transparent LCDs work on the principle of being transparent where their pixels are white, and being opaque where their pixels are black. They also require a ton of light behind them to be seen,…

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Touch Screen Roundup

While Stimulant’s repertoire of sensing and input devices is broad, we frequently come back to touch as a primary method of interaction with our installation projects. Touch offers direct interaction with content in a way that visitors are familiar with due to the ubiquity of mobile devices, but touch can still be exciting and novel…

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SoDA Panel at Cannes Lions

Thanks to The Society of Digital Agencies for organizing a panel at Cannes Lions today on the topic of smart spaces. Our CEO Darren David joined David Schwarz from HUSH and Jake Barton from Local Projects for a discussion of the promise and challenge of bringing interactive media and architecture together.

Eyeo 2015 Notes

It was so great to be back at Eyeo after two years! Compared to my last trip, it felt slightly different. There was a lot more diversity, not only in the speakers’ backgrounds and talks, but also in the attendees. The conference felt even truer to its spirit of “bringing together artists, creative coders, data…

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