You are here
I’m collecting images from around the world depicting ‘you are here’ marks or ideo locators at Flickr. I’m fascinated by this mapping in context, in particular the relationship to local physical space. This is mapping with a a point of view, and maps as direct interface to the world. The best example to date is from Seoul, where 3D cross sections of a metro station are directly related to the point at which you are looking at the map.
Graphic language for touch
This work explores the visual link between information and physical things, specifically around the emerging use of the mobile phone to interact with RFID or NFC. It was a presentation and poster at Design Engaged, Berlin on the 11th November 2005.
Download the icons (PDF, 721KB, Gif preview).
Design Engaged 2005
Here are my raw notes from the three days of excellent conversation, urban exploration and brainstorming of Design Engaged 2005.
Graffiti as conversation
I’ve been photographing layers of conversation in graffiti, and tagging the pictures with conversation. Prior art for spatial annotation?
Spatial memory at Design Engaged 2004
Here is my presentation [pdf] and presentation notes from Design Engaged 2004. Lots of pretty pictures of stickers, tags, flyposting and such. I will chip in with Dan, Adam, Matt, Molly and Fabio to say that this has been the conference highlight of the year.
Design Engaged 2004
We are all sat around a table in Amsterdam, at Design Engaged 2004. There are lots of photos going up to Flickr, and here are my notes.
Public marking photographs
I have posted a selection of images of stickering, graffiti and flyposting, supporting material for my research into spatial annotation.
ISEA 2004 conference
Going to ISEA on a boat between Helsinki, Stockholm, Mariehamn and Tallinn today. I am updating photographs here, and have been posting some event notes over at polarfront.
Time that land forgot
Timo Arnall & Even Westvang.
At the Iceland inside and out workshop Even Westvang and Timo Arnall collaborated on a project looking at ways of contextualising photographs by time and geography. We chose to shift the balance of representation away from location, towards image and time. This is a summary of our ideas and process, with an initial working prototype.
Photography and mapping from Afar

My piece for ‘Afar’ in Copenhagen documents the time from 27 February to 19 May 2004. It presents a linear sequence of images alongside personal maps.
Geo-referenced photography
In Hofn, Iceland we are working on tools for geographic and time-referenced photography. This is our research into platforms and tools for connecting photographic and geographic data.
Mobile outskirts workshop
Currently in Lofoten, Norway for the Mobile outskirts workshop.
Outside In
Leaving Göteborg, heading to Norway, after two days of presentations and workshops at Outside In at Röda Sten.







