esono.com | boris müller: Life Projects Teaching & Research   esono.com is the personal web site of Boris Müller. Boris is professor at the Interface Design programme of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and is also a partner in the design studio one / one.
	News trickle: The Poetry on the Road posters are part of the »Information Aesthetics Showcase« gallery at the Siggraph conference in New Orleans. Siggraph is the most relevant conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques in the world. So it is quite an honor to have the posters included in the exhibition! There is a great interview with showcase curator Victoria Szabo over at infosthetics. {6 July 09} Stefanie Weigele, my dear partner in life many other things, has finally launched her great new website. Lovely illustrations - the page above from her encyclopaedia is one of my favourites! {24 June 09} Minor update. I have finally managed to embed a number of videos. Especially to all revamp fans out there: there is now a screencast of revamp that shows you in detail how the software works. Furthermore, I have included three university projects: Analog, Understanding Games and mæve. (mæve has already received quite a lot of attention - so I thought after 9 months it would be about time to document the project...) So - have fun! {5 June 09} Major update! A lot of new stuff can be found here at esono.com! Of course, everything took much longer than expected. Mainly because of this little fellow. In any case - here is the documentation for Poetry 07, Poetry 08, the VIVA Clipcreator and some projects from my academic life in Potsdam. (Note the change in the main navigation.) I am particularily fond of the Urban Interventions and the new interface demos for MACE Have a look around! {10 August 08} In the next few days, I will update a few projects. (Poetry 08 has just been finished.) However, until then you can have a look at the video documentation of the Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign that I organized back in 2007. The documentation includes the presentations of all speakers (Gillian Crampton Smith, Anthony Dunne, Tim Edler, Frank Jacob, Gesche Joost, Bernard Kerr, Patrick Kochlik, Kristjan Kristjansson, Bill Moggridge, Dennis Paul, Mike Richter und Bruce Sterling.) Great talks - I am really happy with the videos. {18 May 08} I had the wonderful opportunity to form a design studio with Friederike Lambers, Florian Pfeffer and Thomas Sabel. Together, we are now one/one. We have now studios in Berlin, Bremen and Amsterdam and focus on the fusion of graphic design, interaction design and moving image design. I am very excited about this new formation - so please check out our new website! esono.com will of course continue to exist, but I will cover more experimental work and results from my teaching post at the Interface Design programme in Potsdam. {14 January 08} The following news are not site-related but might be interesting for all visitors nonetheless: I am currently organizing a conference on interaction design, the Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign. The conference will take place on March 30 + 31 2007 in Potsdam. A number of great speakers has already agreed to participate in the event. I think it is going to be a really interesting conference. If you want to know more about the event: here is a brief interview with Régine from We make money not art. {18 February 07} I finally managed to document two recent projects: the 2006 version of Poetry on the Road and the web site for the kitchen manufacturer Jäger & Sammler. Poetry is a well-known project for a lot of my site visitors. I am happy that it is finally documented, but I don't think it needs a lot of explanation. But the second project was very unusual for me. No generative design, a lot of sound, lots of buttons to click. It almost feels like a CD-ROM project from the 90'. However, it was great fun! So make sure you explore the weird kitchens of Jäger & Sammler! {15 October 06} The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung (German Society for Design Research) has invited me to give a talk about my recent research projects. I think the whole subject of design research is extremly relevant right now - so I am looking forward to the upcoming talks and discussions! {18 May 06} The film and media festival »achtung berlin« will take place from 11. - 17. May here in Berlin. In the conference part of the festival, I will have the great pleasure to introduce and moderate the »media in space« panel. On the panel will be: Dennis Paul and Patrick Kochlik (Art+Com), Patrick Rau (Kunst-Stoff), Martin Schmidt plus Jan and Tim Edler (Realities United). The conference will take place on 13. - 14. May in the Hackeschen Höfe Filmtheater. {06 May 06} I am very pleased to announce that three of my poster works will be exhibited at the International Poster Exhibition Japan. The exhibition will be held from April 26 to May 26 at the Shinmachi Board Walk in Tokushima. On display are the Fast Faust poster, the Poetry on the Road 2003 and the and the Poetry on the Road 2005 poster. {21 April 06} Last week I have been invited to an extremely interesting event: the Communication Next conference in Karlsruhe. The conference was based on three thematic blocks: Research, Relevance and Reinvention. I had the pleasure to be on the Research panel. What I really liked about the Communication Next was that it was not a standard design conference. The invited speakers made a real contribution to the theme of their panel. It was not just »show and tell« but rather an intellectual journey through the future of design. {17 February 06} The College of Art and Design Bergen is having an excellent seminar on Interaction Design. Marcos Weskamp, Sebastian Oschatz and myself are giving lectures about our work. {16 October 05} It has been very quiet here in the last few months. (Some people alredy asked me if I technically dead since I did not update my website.) I assume I was just too busy with other things - mainly with teaching and with the development of incom - the community platform of our design department. incom is pretty much a community blog, so you can find a lot of my online-contributions over there. Anyway, I finally managed an update of esono. Notably there are two new projects for Philips: the luminaires web-catalogue and the Dynamic Lighting microsite (which already won a prestigious iF design award). Furthermore, Poetry on the Road 2005 is now documented. So - I hope esono.com is going to be a bit busier in the new few months. {04 September 05} And now for something slightly larger: due to public demand, I have created a new version of the Ambulator, an autonomous Internet agent that collects texts and images of all web sites it encounters. The last versions were all build in Director and they did not work very well. I have now used Processing and Python to come up with something more stable. However, it's still not 100% finished. If you find any bugs, let me know. {19 September 04} Just a small update: Poetry on the Road 2004 is now documented on the site. {18 September 04} I am now officially professor for Interaction Design at the Fachhochschule Potsdam near Berlin. The FHP has just started a new programme in Interface Design. It's a very exciting school and I expect to see a lot of great projects coming from Potsdam in the next few years. {12 June 04} If you live in Bremen, you have probably noticed the Poetry on the Road posters in the city. The posters are not documented on my site yet, but I have just finished the interactive demonstrator of VisualPoetry 3.0. So follow this link and write your own poetry cluster! {08 May 04} I have been interviewed by XFUNS, a great design magazine from Taiwan. (Thanks, Tori!) The current issue, No. 9 on code art, includes this extensive interview as well as an overview of my projects. If you happen to be in Tawain, grab a copy! {06 January 04} Together with Hilla Neske, I will be running a workshop at this years profile intermedia conference in Bremen, Germany. It's called WATCH THIS and if you are attending the conference, have a look at our workshop page. {11 November 03} The testbed looked a bit empty so I put up some stuff from my digital sketchbook. {18 October 03} I have finally managed to update the site and document all the projects that were completed in the last few months. Notably, there are: Poetry on the Road, Philips Carpe Diem and :output. Welcome back, have fun. {03 October 03} Award winning Projects: Philips Dynamic Lighting Website {iF Award 2005, Communication Design} Poetry on the Road (02) {Certificate of Typographic Excellence, Type Directors Club New York} {»100 beste Plakate«, among the 100 best posters in Germany, Austria and Switzerland} Sociotopic {Honorable Mention; rhizome.org Net Art Commission.} The Forest of Thoughts {Excellence Award at the 4th ACA Media Arts Festival Tokyo}, Rund um den Domshof in Bremen {First Prize in the Students Category of the EuroPrix 2000}, fragments {Special Distinction at the Lucky Strike Junior Designer Award 2000} {Overview of all projects}
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