work bio cv
David Lu
Visual Design, Interaction Design, and Tangible Media
Work


Drawing tools for sleepy people.
Keywords  calm technology, illustration
 [ Processing (Java) ]


Data visualization and web site.
Keywords  sustainability, resource system cycles, information visualization  [ ActionScript, XML ]


Playful art installation that raises awareness of fingerprinting and identity.
Keywords  social responsibility, generative architecture  [ C++, OpenGL ]


Typographic political visualization.
Keywords  democracy, dynamic type, info viz
[ Processing (Java), Python, MySQL ]




Exploration in slow design and physical interface.
Keywords  slow design, physical computing
[ Java, Basic, BX-24, basic electronics ]


Rethinking our visual language for expressing time.
Keywords  calm technology, information visualisation
[ Java ]


Wearable computing object.
Keywords  
[ wearable technology, physical computing ]


Mobile portrait drawing installation.
Keywords  algorithmic drawing, street art [ Java ]


Sited visualization in the discoteque.
Keywords  ethnography, info viz, user centered design [ physical prototyping, Processing (Java) ]


Abstract light/shadow display device.
Keywords  slow design, physical computing
[ Basic, BX-24, basic electronics ]
2005
Colored drawings.

2004
Drawing tools for sleepy people.

Interface to OCMA's video archive.

Web site for OCMA's new media space.

Kinetic typography in Flash.

Colored line drawings, 2003 — 2004.

Information visualization and web site.

Walk your own fingerprint.

Geometry of Code    //// offsite ////
Software sketching workshop.

4 Happy Accidents    //// offsite ////
Strange, computational illustrations.

Archived web site and writing.

2003
Political data visualization at Pentagram.

Portrait drawing: human vs machine.

Calendar event info in public space.

Information exhibits in public space.

Research in info display media.

Political data visualization.

Automatic Drawing    //// offsite ////
Autonomous pen experiment in Flash.

Animated hand-drawn commentary.

Dog Share    //// offsite ////
A socially conscious, sustainable service.

Physical interface and slow design.

Illustration for alt-country band.

Illustration.

Custom physical input device.

Wearables for Laptops    //// offsite ////
Clothing our high-tech objects.

Magical Musical Tape    //// offsite ////
New/old way to compose music.

Pacemaker Blogger    //// offsite ////
The virtual joins the morbidly real.

Human vs computer drawing system.

Blind contour drawing software.

Visual grammar for expressing time.

Info visualization in disco.

Ivrea Hospital Flow    //// offsite ////
Ethnographic research notes.

Daily documentation of drawings, photos, work.

2002
Abstract display device.

Physical interface inspired by etch-a-sketch.

Improved way to learn electronics.

Blind contour drawings by computer.

Character sketches for a comic book.

Pattern maker.

Paper model.

Single character type design.

UbiMom    //// offsite ////
Ubiquitous mothering service.

Dynamic type.

Old web site design.

1998 — 2001
Dynamic type.

Lucky Thirteen    //// offsite ////
Responsive sound toy.

Visualising hierarchy in Flash.

VIsualising hierarchy in Flash.

Loveletter to Coffee M.    //// offsite ////
Time-space series stills of Krups proAroma.

Dynamic type.

Archived drawings.