This is a currently unmaintained archive of past work. To be updated someday, but not yet.
Alexander Taylor
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Personal projects collated here - for a portfolio of professional work please get in touch.
Two Heartbeats
2018Physical ComputingExperimental Design ()Antidetox Kit
2018Experimental Design ()SpeculationProductsResearch
The Antidetox Kit (and accompanying recipe book) provides an easy means for expelling essential vitamins and minerals from the body.
Two Offices
2018Visual CommunicationExperimental Design ()Research
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2019AI/MLInstallationsExperimental Design ()ResearchSpeculation3GTV
2016Visual CommunicationExperimental Design ()Websites
A web-based TV channel dedicated to the one million or so .3gp* files that have found their way onto Youtube, with the option to narrow video selections down to specific regions and categories. With thanks to Rhizome, who commissioned it as part of their microgrants program (see blog post here). Designed to be viewed with Google Chrome.
*A largely extinct file container that was most popular during the first wave of video-playing mobile phones.
Tree HD
2016Visual CommunicationExperimental Design ()An Audio Dictionary of EDM Vocal Hook Phrases (2015 wordlist, Abridged, Distorted for License Agreement Compliance)
2017Experimental Design ()Sound
HEAP CUTS
2015Experimental Design ()SoundWebsitesUpdated 2019
A.P.G.T.H.
2015Experimental Design ()Websites
An online memoriam for for the dying cellphone, with Tweets about dead phones being read out loud in real-time.
Gestures Brush Pack
2014Experimental Design ()Products
Feeling Lucky
2015Experimental Design ()Websites
Three modified Google search bars offering remedies for digital claustrophobia, overstimulation and nostalgia.
Garbage Collection: Some Visuals & Sketches from 2013-2015
2016Visual CommunicationExperimental Design ()Research
Size: A4
Pages: 94
Format: PDF
Little Fluffy Clouds: Examples of Representations of 'The Cloud' in Marketing Material, Circa 2014
2016Visual CommunicationExperimental Design ()Research
Size: A4
Pages: 28
Format: PDF
Early research that went on to inform my MA thesis (Castles in the Sky: Charting the evolution of the digital cloud through evolutions in its representation).
GIF Thing
2014Experimental Design ()ApplicationsWebsites
A VJing tool that creates an endless full-screen montage sequence out of submitted GIFs.
Blissify.io
2016AI/MLPhysical ComputingVisual CommunicationExperimental Design ()SpeculationApplications
A satirical startup-style product exploring the idea of 'filter bubbles': Blissify is a functional browser extension for Google Chrome that uses emotion
detection technology to automatically block the pages that are making the user unhappy. Featured on Fast Co. Design.