Richard Wood

On this page you will find examples of work ranging from both professional pieces to work done for a bit of fun. There is print, web and photographic work listed below for you to peruse.
The work is listed in a chronological order.

Web
Assanka

Freelance

Accademic

Print
Academic
- Robots

Freelance
- A Taste of Canada

Other
Accademic
- Phable
- Student Mental Health

VouchAR

vouchAR aims to provide you with local, timely, contextually and behaviourally relevant discount information that can be shared with friends via your mobile handset.

vouchAR will find your current location via GPS, hunt for nearby vouchers and then display the results in a variety of ways. Our favourite is on top of live video of the world around you it's our vouchAR "Party Piece".

Our innovative app finds your location via GPS, searches nearby discounts from a variety of sources and then overlays them on live video. You can literally see the deals floating around you. By panning the camera, you can search your whole world around you.

Wordpress, HTML, CSS, PHP, Photoshop, XML, Project Management, UI, UX, Design for Mobile, CMS, Database Management

HighWire Reach

HighWire Reach is a project that aims to map the movements of the HighWire doctoral programme using Twitter and the Google Maps API.

Studetns can map their travels by sending a Geo-Tagged tweet from anywhere in the world.

HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Twitter API, Google Maps API

HighWire Reach - Mapping movements through Twitter

Taptu

This project was to create a Wordpress theme for Taptu - the Mobile Apps developer that was inline with their current site design. The design aims to be visually identifiable with the brand while also segregating the blog from the general site content.

Wordpress, HTML, CSS, PHP

A Taste of Canada

"A Taste of Canada is an entertaining insight into the world's second largest country, and a humorous account of what some thought was a trivial pursuit, but that turned into something more - a culinary quest of great sandwichude!"

Get it on Amazon

Graphic Design, Illustration, Typography

A Taste of Canada - In search of a reasonably priced sanwich

Internetome

The Internet of Things is a multi-faceted IT led revolution that will impact many facets of life. It will help humanity meet some of its biggest challenges, and throw up some new ones.

"Internetome: The 1st Transdisciplinary Internet of Things Conference" takes place in London over two days (dates to be confirmed soon). It gives respected representatives of all sectors and disciplines the equal weight needed to make progress towards a unity of knowledge, towards defining and achieving optimal outcomes sooner than later. The mission and objectives are described more fully in the tabbed section above.

Web Design, Graphic Design, Logo Design, Word Press.

DisruptR

HighWire is primarily concerned with the study of innovation in the digital economy. Innovation is sometimes classified as disruptive. Disruptive innovation comes from outside the normal framework of thought and is therefore often associated with counter-culture, especially in terms of music or artistic change e.g. Punk or The Renaissance. Studies suggest that counter-culture emerges out of certain socio-economic conditions. Kevin Smith (another HighWire student) and I examined the indicators of these conditions and found the corresponding data-sets from the opendata.gov.uk website. We then mapped these to visually identify potential areas for counter-culture and subsequent disruptive innovation to emerge if the patterns of the past were repeated today. This "static" data was then overlaid with real time twitter data searching for terms of anger, disillusionment or political comment. By merging the two data sets we aimed to identify the key social conditions evident in previous counter-culture emergence while at the same time identifying real time angst. Effectively locating the tinder and looking for a spark.

This is a work in progress.

JQuery, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Google Maps API, Yahoo Location API, Twitter API

HighWired Blog

A Wordpress MU based blogging platform used to give the HighWire team an internet based presence. It is generally used for each of us to collate our ideas, thought and comments.

Wordpress MU, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Twitter API

HighWired - Google Maps Wordpress Blogging Platform

Student Mental Health

This project focused on student mental health issues in higher education. A design research based project that lead to design criteria which involved reducing the stigma associated with mental health issues, raising awareness of campus based initiatives and services and using positive language.

Research Design, Illustrator, Group Work, Viral Ads.

Phable

A group project aimed at helping the world overcome the problems of widespread illiteracy. This was inline with UNICEF's Universal Primanry Education Goals and Microsoft's imagination cup.

Illustrator, Conceptual Design, Software Solutions, System Design, Group Work