Designers Demo Night
Hosted by New York Product Design + Brian Hui + José Arias + Gonzalo Gelso + Lauren Harrington + Collin Hadley
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What to look forward to
The second demo night will feature designers presenting their latest projects in 15-minute talks, including Gonzalo Gelso’s ETHEREA, which uses voice and LLMs to generate live visual worlds, alongside demos from Lafiya Watson Ramirez, Dimitri Otero, and Andrew Hoag. Hosted by The Old School, the evening will spotlight multidisciplinary creative work and open inquiry.
Inside the event
We're already back with our second demo night!
Whether you're working on a side project or you want to show off the main thing you're working on right now, come join us at a former nun convent school to show your fellow designers the latest and greatest thing you're doing!
Some designers are showcasing the work they've been doing! Each will present for about 15 minutes on what they're working on.
Our Hosts
This event is being hosted by Open Note Labs. A place for open inquiry. Multi-disciplinary programming in theory, research, and development.
A grove of knowledge growing out of the Old School. Reach out to laurentharrington@gmail.com or gonzalogelso@gmail.com for more info on contributing to the mission.
The Demos
ETHEREA
by James Barnes
ETHEREA makes speech more expressive, memorable, and understandable by turning spoken words into beautiful live video.
Ancestral Dance
by Lafiya Watson Ramirez, Heather Dunaway Smith, and Dulce Baerga
Ancestral Dance is an AR experience built for Snap’s Spectacles platform. The project is an interactive experience with hand tracking and voice recognition created as a reminder to connect with the wisdom of those who came before us.
Design Systems as Data
by Dimitri Otero
Flexible by design for every brand, platform and person
AETween
by Andrew Hoag
AETween is a dockable graph editor and animation toolbar for After Effects. It brings advanced lattice cages, buffer curves and a variety of sliders that make tweens, blends, overshoots, anticipations and other motion fundamentals just a few clicks away. Simplifies orchestrating motion and crafting beautiful easing across multiple properties in After Effects.
TOPMOD
by John Briscella
TopMod, the topological mesh modeler, now free online in the browser and on iPhone and iPad.
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