This is a collection of some projects and explorations. If you’re looking for product and service design go to jimkosem.com.
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The problem is the code Well for me at any rate. But probably for a whole bunch of you as well. I’m amazed by programming. You see, I’m a designer, but from a family of programmers. My dad in fact programmed on cards on some of the first
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A descent into booze, madness and visualisation all through the medium of pizza. There they lay, strewn about, dead to the world and to themselves. Uncared for, discarded, yet at one time not long before this picture was taken, delicious. This was no accident. Or was it? What follows is
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In order to explain to you what Stokken-Blokken is, I’m going to tell you a little story why it’s even here. The origin story “Yeah do it. Totally do it.” “Yes. Amazing. You should do this. Seriously just do it.” “Love it. Why don't you go
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I put some art on the blockchain. There’s been a tiny seed that was planted deep as the blackest night or Glenn Danzig’s soul inside of me a while ago. That seed was finding out what this whole Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT, formerly known as blockchain) is good
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Discourse Tracking is something that I thought would be fascinating to look into on the side, coming from work in the past I had done with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and analysing and connecting parts of sentences and grammatical components. This is very hard to do with conversations and the
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Landscapes of (Re)Conquest is a journey though the history of the Iberian Peninsula from AD 711 to 1492 using augmented reality. The visitor will be able to view and interact with an immersive technology timeline showing them what the past looked like during this tumultuous period of transition from
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What is writing worth on the Internet? What about your time reading? The fact is that these days neither is worth anything. Words are now free, easy to copy and distribute as much as you want. StoriedCoin (SDC) is a design to examine the question of value and writing on
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I look at a innumberable host of calendars and shared calendars what seems to me to be at least 326 times a day. Its on my computer and its on my phone and its on a load of other people’s computers and phones. Its there so often, dripping itself
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The writer’s biggest enemy is the blank page. It stares at you, glaring at your inadequacies in a way that is both brutal and very honest. Your job is to fill this page with words. Good words and even better sentences. This is actually very hard. I’ve read
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Bastion is a publishing platform you can read and provide books in incredibly readable slices on mobile devices. Most apps and e-readers are focused on one thing, trying to shove thousands of years of printed reading into a device as is. I don’t think it should be this way.
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Update! Bastion, the book building CMS that once housed The Gates of Vienna has been pulled from the iOS App Store. It’s been a long hard slog and the App Store is a non-stop battle I can’t fight anymore. Instead I’ve liberated the story and the format
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GECHO (Global Echo) is an early stage application with Julian Simpson and Prof. Aleks Pluskowski that helps archeologists work with each other on the material record of mankind. Archeologists all across the world email each other databases, which we believe to be an inefficient, error-prone and slow way to work.