Todd Vanderlin

I design systems for AI and humans at IDEO, make things with code, and draw pictures.

A dancer with arms outstretched in front of a wall of green particles reading Welcome back to COCA

COCA Community Wall

Interactive particle wall for COCA, with Sosolimited.

 Overlapping blue and aqua shapes flowing across the frame

Color Study

 A tapering form drawn from fine concentric lines on white

Design Fiction

Code animation for an IDEO article on design fiction.

 A mask shape of white particles with an orange glow on black

Particle Mask #2

 Two mirrored figures dissolved into dark fur-like particle streaks

Body Particles

Creating particles from motion.

 The word VOTE drawn in looping red and blue lines on black

Vote 2020

 A field of white particles around a dense cluster of red infected particles

Social Distancing

Visualizations of the impact of social distancing over time.

 White alphabet and numbers in particle type on black, partly eroded

Type Experiments

Particle experiments with typography.

 A tilted video of a man's face floating on a black screen with tracking lines at the eyes

Follow Me

Face follow app.

 A hand over pavement with repeated frames trailing from the fingers

AR Body Frames

Experiments with body trails in AR space.

 Fine curved lines bending around two black circles on a dark background

Reflection Lines

Reflection lines from particles.

 A phone view of a white line drawn in the air above a street

AR Finger Drawing

Experiments drawing in AR space.

 Pink frames of a skateboarder repeated in an arc over a skatepark

AR Skate Trails

Realtime trails left in space.

 A looping pixel ribbon stretching out from a man's face on black

Mouth Ribbons

3D ribbons made from your mouth.

 A hand pulling a stretched sheet of pixels over grass

AR Pixel Taffy

Pulling pixels in AR space.

 White flowers and curling ribbons in a line on black

Small Forest

Collaboration with designer Sophy Lee to create a design tool in the style of her flower typography.

 A white hand silhouette with a red tentacle fringe on black

Tentacle Experiments

Realtime contour experiments.
Rows of cut out face parts piled together

Pixel Experiments

Projection piece that grabs parts of a face and turns them into shapes. The shapes pile up at the end of the screen creating collages of face parts.

A hand touching a pale pink projected shape on a dark wall

Shape Shatter Experiments

Draw a shape and see it shatter.

 Dense white lines radiating from a center on black

Drone Data

Visualizations made from drone data.

 Four patterned beer cans and two glasses of beer on a wooden table outdoors

Generative Beer Labels

Generative beer labels created with Mystic Brewery and Loyal Supply.

 A ring of particle strokes in white, orange, and red swirling on black

Inward and Outwards Forces

 A line drawn shape and green circles on a cream background from a physics demo

ofxbox2d

Box2d wrapper for openFrameworks.
A patterned cube sculpture lit from within in front of a large projection in a dark gallery

The Hello Cube

An interactive social sculpture for The Tate Modern.

People silhouetted on stage in front of a building covered in projected shadows and fern shapes

Night Lights

Outdoor interactive projection in Auckland, New Zealand.

 Hands on a vinyl record with a marker on the label, next to a laptop and camera

AR Scratching

AR marker scratching prototype.

 A person silhouetted against a glowing window of animated sea plants and fish

Carnival Interactive Aquarium
A grid of black graffiti letter forms on white

Graffiti Taxonomy

Collaboration with Evan Roth.

A figure reaching up toward pale creatures projected over a stairwell

Fungi

Full-body projection interactions.