the useful arts organisation style, design, program, build, manage & find solutions for media, internet, installations, exhibitions, performances and people.

the useful arts organisation was founded by Dorian Moore in 2008 to gather together his portfolio and provide a framework for his expanding practise. Angie Fraser is co-director of the company, providing consultancy and advisory services.

the useful arts (also called technics) are concerned with the skills and methods of practical subjects such as manufacture and craftsmanship. It has now gone out of fashion, but was coined in Victorian times as a mirror of the performing arts and the fine arts.


www.designmuseum.org/headtotoe

head to toe for ross phillips at the design museum, 3rd June 2009.

Head To Toe is a site specific installation by Ross Phillips for Super Contemporary at The Design Museum, featuring a network of kiosks capturing video clips of eitehr head, body, and legs which are then sent to a pod at the Design Museum where they can be viewed in the style of the classic children's book, flipping through the videos to see each clip.

We're happy to have built much of the software for this installation, including the video processing infrastructure, data synchronisation, moderation and web and kiosk interactives. 

Visit the pods at the Design Museum, Selfridges, Covent Garden or Ideas Store and get yourself in on the action.

www.colchesterinn.net

colchester inn website, 22nd May 2009.

Completed earlier this year, but only just put live, is a new website for public works project Colchester Inn. This is the first stage of a project with First Site in Colchester, working with local communities to create works for the new First Site building.

The website is part blog, part mapping tool, part documentation of process, designed to show how the network of people involved in the projects grows and ideas are formed. To deal with this it switches from the standard blog format to something a bit more dynamic.

Whilst it uses horizontal navigation which is something I don't usually agree with - it goes against usability norms - here I am using it because it best represents a timeline, and more clearly delineates the entires. JavaScript is used to make the interface work more dynamically. 

With any luck this will turn into a more full mapping project in the future, with more cross linking and different visualisations of the underlying structures and relationships created throughout the process. 

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