Portfolio - Diego Monetti

The brilliant and egotistically-over-the-top-awesome portfolio of Interactive Experience Designer, Diego Monetti. Shaking my head out of envy, amusement and shock.

Someone please hire him and report back.

Best Moment of the Day?

Designboom has been asking the interview question "What is the best moment of the day?". It is a fantastic question with even better answers. Each answer is acting as a headline for the full interview.

Designing The News

I'm enjoying Dave Bowker's website, Designing The News. Dave describes the site as "A series of experiments which visually explore the news in various ways to encourage new ways of seeing a predominantly text based medium." David has a cool throwing-it-out-there approach to his ideas which I appreciate.

I was attracted to his most recent visualization experiment, One Week of The Guardian: Wednesday. Each circle represents a different news category, arranged from the center outwards according to each category's total word count. His idea expands out to link the category rankings from one day to another to track a whole year's worth of news stories. This is a cool overall visualization. It reminds me a bit of the Digg Labs work, but with a rockn' retro color scheme.

Philippe Starck TED Talk

Fantastique! I just listened to this TED Talk by Philippe Starck, and smiled from start to finish. He talks about his useless job of being a designer - very inspiring (seriously). Whether you think you are a Philippe Starck fan or not, this talk is well worth 18 minutes of your time.

Distellmap

Ben Fry is a fabulous designer/artist/computer scientist who focuses on visualizing data. This project, called Distellamap, (a spin-off of Dismap) highlights the beauty of code. The project features the code of 6 different Atari games overlaid with curves to show its 'go to' elements. The visualization emphasizes the flow of the code, showing it off as a complex piece of poetry. (Found most recently through Pica + Pixel).