Brendan Dawes

Jun 25 2006

Brendan Dawes

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Flash - Flash Gurus

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Brendan is Executive Creative Director with interactive design group magneticNorth, based in Manchester, UK. His portfolio of work includes projects for Disney, BBC, Golden Wonder, Benetton, Club 18-30, Volvic , Fox Kids, Channel 4, Kellogg’s, and Coca-Cola. As well as commercial work, Bren also has personal projects including the highly acclaimed Saul Bass website, and its quirky offshoot, Psycho Studio, an application that allows you to edit your own version of the Psycho shower scene online.

On his personal site, brendandawes.com, he explores the fusion of people, art, technology, and code using anything that comes to hand including Flash, Java, video, paper, Play-Doh, bits of string, and dead media to constantly explore what interaction design means.

Over the years Brendan’s work has been featured in numerous journals including idN, Creative Review, MacUser, Computer Arts, Create, Wired, Eye, The Guardian, and Communications Arts. He has also been featured in various books including New Masters of Flash, In Your Face Too - the best of interactive interface design and Personal Websites, as well as authoring Drag Slide Fade - Flash ActionScript for Designers. He has just finished writing his latest book, out in July, entitled Analog In / Digital Out.
Brendan spends much of the year speaking at various conferences around the world including the HOW Design Conference Chicago, Flashforward, New Media Age Congress London, Macromedia Web World Seattle, Art Directors Club of Spain, Madrid, Internet World Los Angeles, as well as various lectures at universities around the UK