GET IT LOUDER (UK Exhibits)
London Guest City programme of Beijing Design Week
Talking Innovation
Design UK Front Page
IYDEY 2007 Award
IYDEY 2006 Award
Design in the UK
Design UK Virtual Exhibition
Daniel Brown
Danny Brown is a digital artist/designer, born in Liverpool in 1977. Computers and computer games were part of his childhood. His father was a pioneer of computer graphics and, through a family friend, he was given access to the equipment at the Learning Methods Unit at John Moores University. After leaving school he joined Amaze, the design company attached to the LMU. In 1997 Danny launched his personal website, noodlebox, which later became www.play-create.com. In 2003, he was part of the first group of Great Brits, an exhibition of new British design talent curated jointly by the British Council, the Design Museum and Sir Paul Smith for the Milan Furniture Fair. He was voted Designer of the Year in the Design Museum’s public poll in 2004. He now works regularly for SHOWstudio, the internet showcase for new work in fashion and visual media founded by Nick Knight in the mid 90s, in addition to developing limited edition animations for private clients. He recently curated Generative X, an exhibition of generative digital work for the animation festival OneDotZero9 at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts. Danny Brown has made a specialism of generative animation – that in which patterns continually grow, develop and mutate within a set of programmed rules. Much of the imagery in his works, in Flowers and Butterflies for example, is inspired by the growth of shapes and patterns in nature. The naturalistic beauty and “life” of these animations belie the technological hard-graft and mathematical complexity of which they are born.
