Biography

Geoff Hinchcliffe is an academic and designer in the Faculty of Arts & Design at the University of Canberra. He has worked as a commercial graphic designer in print publication, web, interactive media, and broadcast graphics.  He has served as a councillor for the Australian Graphic Design Association at state and national levels.  His current focus is on new forms and practices in graphic design: web design; interface design; generative design; data visualisation.  Geoff is currently completing a PhD focusing on the creative and aesthetic dimensions of computer interface media.  His experimental design work parallels his theoretical research, exploring creative modes of interface communication and interaction.  With colleagues from the Digital Design and Media research cluster, Geoff is currently involved in a collaboration with Robert Foster of Fink Design exploring data aesthetics in retail space, and a collaboration with the NGA developing an interactive visualisation of their digital collection of Australian prints.

Recent experiments:

Twitter Modern Classics presents tweets as literary classics.
http://gravitron.com.au/twittermodernclassics

Twitter Motion represents a tweet stream as a dynamic motion-graphics sequence.
http://gravitron.com.au/twitter


Recent applied works:

Online shopfront and management system for Make Designed Objects.
http://makedesignedobjects.com

Ticket system for live music venues.
http://cornerhotel.com
http://northcotesocialclub.com 


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