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"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."

- Leo Burnett

 
 

Q Work

 
 
Yale C2  

Yale C2

Creative Consilience of Computing and the Arts aptly describes Yale University's interdisciplinary research and educational initiative – Yale C2. This new degree program integrates computing science with a specific arts focus drawn from art, history of art, music, drama, and architecture. Q LTD developed the name, brand identity, and business cards for the initiative as well as designed and produced the Yale C2 web site.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2009  

SIGGRAPH Asia 2009

For SIGGRAPH Asia 2009, Q designed and produced the conference identity, all marketing and advertising materials, and a bilingual web site. About 6,500 attendees from Asia and around the world attended the conference at Pacifico Yokohama to see and learn about the latest advances in digital art, animation, visualization, interactive techniques, and products.

Choreographer, Screendance Artist, Educator  

Choreographer, Screendance Artist, Educator

Q designed and produced a new web presence for Peter Sparling, University of Michigan Thurnau Professor of Dance and former principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company. The site incorporates biographical information and current work as well an extensive archive of images and video that cover Sparling's 40-year career in dance.

 
 

Q Feature

 
 
 

Search Patterns: Design for Discovery

by Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender

An excerpt from Chapter One, Pattern Recognition

“The future isn’t just unwritten—it’s unsearched.” - Bruce Sterling

In astronomy, averted vision is the art of seeing distant objects by looking to their periphery. It works by shifting responsibility from cones, which sense color and fine detail, to rods, which detect motion and help us to juggle, play chess, and see in the dark. This form of peripheral vision can be practiced. Observers often report a gain of three to four magnitudes. It’s a powerful reminder that sometimes we must look away to see. Read more >

 
 

From the Qrator

 
 
 

Java Information Architecture

Java is far more than a general-purpose, object-oriented software system created by Sun Microsystems in 1995. It is also a huge volcanic island that separates the Indian Ocean from the Java Sea. Java has more people than any other island in the world (130 million). Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, in northwestern Java, is the world’s sixth largest metropolitan area (18.9 million people). Read more >

 
 

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