Brendan Dawes

From Beats to Bytes

Brendan Dawes is Creative Director for magneticNorth, a digital design company based in Manchester, UK. Over the years he's helped realise projects for a wide range of brands including Sony Records, Diesel, BBC, Fox Kids, Channel 4, Disney, Benetton, Kellogg's, The Tate and Coca-Cola.

Ever since his first experiences with the humble ZX81 back in the early eighties, Brendan has continued to explore the interplay of people, code, design and art, In 2009 he was listed among top twenty web designers in the world by .Net magazine, was featured in the "Design Icon" series in Computer Arts, and numerous magazines, journals and books, and has a Webby nomination for his pioneering "Psycho Studio video editor. His Cinema Redux project, which distills movies down to a single image using specially written software that samples a frame of a movie every second, was acquired for MoMA's permanent collection. On brendandawes.com blog Brendan publishes personal projects created from an eclectic mix of digital an analog objects and random thoughts.