Hello, my name is Tom Lynch, I am a graduate of the University for the Creative Arts - Epsom, and I am currently studying MA Design Interactions at Royal College of Art, I am passionate about design, programming, electronics, and photography and I like to leverage these in my work.
Work
Intelligent (computer learning) home automation systems, require human feedback in order to make changes to their control patterns.
As the automation system becomes harmonised with the occupants's patterns, the occupants may become ambivalent to their own needs.
How then will the system stimulate the occupant's feedback?
Camera X is a experimental camera and artefacts which play with human reactions.
The camera when triggered takes a series of images during the process of firing a small exploding cartridge which launches material towards the subject, at the end of the process you are left with a series of images which document the reaction to the unexpected detonation.
This was my final major project at university, I designed a physical Twitter display produced in the style of a flip-clock to convert the digital messages back into physical messages, and then prototyped a single character from this design.
This project is a projection of the future where home automation is pervasive and domestic robots are ubiquitous. One robot has had enough of the humans and decides to take revenge, read more...
In this project I acted as technical consultant aiding them in the production of a USB stick loaded with a program for both Mac and PC and the technical complexities that come from such an idea. This was digital gift for the V&A's design think tank.
This is a self-initiated project resulting from a dissatisfaction with existing desktop Twitter client applications, the concept has no main window, it takes push notifications, Growl notifications and the Twitter API and mashes them up in a simple non-intrusive interface.
This is the latest redesign of a long term project I have been working on since being a student, GDNM.org is the course website for Graphic Design, Graphic Design: New Media & Foundation Art & Design courses at UCA and has been a constant effort to create an online student community and presence for the courses online for the past 3+ years.
The_Link is a website which aggregates news from around the design blogosphere into once place, a great source of inspiration, The_Link is currently a part of the GDNM.org website.
Working again with Inventive&Co. we built a microsite for Paul Smith Jeans, spring summer 2010 collection, requiring a mix of various skills including Flash, Javascript, PHP, HTML, CSS and design. This project was later featured in Creative Review's 30th Anniversary edition - read more
Open hardware is a 5 minute mini-documentary which investigates the idea of Open Hardware and looks at the idea of a Hackspace.
Imagine if you will a future where technology is sufficiently advanced enough that normal people are able to design and manufacture living creatures (playing gods work) in their own home.
This project explores such a future through an interview with a character who has manufactured his own snake which helps him with his hobby, arrow-head collecting.