Net-A-Porter, but make it nerdy. I designed the poster for a YNAP hackday. I wanted to reference Net-A-Porter, avoid any Matrix style code cliches, but still make it nerdy. This is what I came up with.
It’s the most significant colours sampled from the product images of the top 1024 clothing products on Net-A-Porter, organised by hue.
My favourite things at the Louvre Abu Dhabi were Cy Twombly's Untitled I-IX paintings. They're structured but chaotic and beautifully imperfect.
What does a day's trading at Net-A-Porter look like? Taking inspiration from Formula 1's use of flow-vis paint, I came up with a visualisation for a YNAP hackday.
The most significant colours sampled from the product images of the top 1024 clothing products on Net-A-Porter, organised by hue.
Spotify's Wrapped is very shareable but what if it took a longer term view? What if it considered the full thirteen years I've been with Spotify?
Net-A-Porter's Spring Summer 2022 marketing campaign, "Go for Bold", centred around a collection of colourful products. Marketing wanted to add a technology element and one idea was to use palettes as a route to finding products. Ultimately this was binned, but I built it anyway.
That Roger Federer does not sweat had become ingrained thinking, the sort of idea we were looking to challenge. Was it real or just a lazy cliche? We had IBM’s Wimbledon match data for all the top players and using Weather Underground we pulled in temperature data for those matches. This let us see the number of matches played by player and temperature.
As an experiment in using the Physical Web I wanted to create a voting system for physical meetings. A meeting would have a current question and attendees could vote with one click. There would be no entering URLs, downloading apps, or scanning QR codes.
I'm Darren Shaw. I work as a software engineer at a tiny bank in London. I previously worked at Net-A-Porter and IBM. These are my side projects. Away from work I also play at being a portrait photographer.