Speakers
Takaaki Okada
Takaaki Okada is the Co-founder and Creative Director of ConditionONE, a technology media startup developing powerful immersive experiences. As the Co-director of Office of Unspecified Services, he
works with media organisations, photographers, and filmmakers. Previously, he was a senior designer on a National Design Award winning team at Pentagram Design. His work for One Laptop Per Child is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
What Takaaki will be doing at DIY DAYS
Interactive Design in Storytelling
Takaaki Okada discusses his experience and thoughts from his early work which centered around data visualization and user interface design to his recent collaborations with documentary filmmakers, photographers, and artists for whom he’s been working on projects on topics such as: the health care system in the US; political prisoners in Burma; and creating a collective memory archive about the genocide in Guatemala. He will also talk in detail about his work at Condition ONE, a media technology company developing the tools and platform for filmmakers, photojournalists and visual storytellers to create powerful immersive experiences for next generation devices.
DIY DAYS asks Takaaki
What are you currently working on that you’re excited about?
We’re very close to launching Condition ONE, which I’ve been working on for a year.
What are some of your favorite sites and / or mobile apps and brief why?
I never read that much text on the web, but now I do because of Instapaper.
Every Jeff Minter game: Because of llamas and goats.
It’s been a while since I got excited about new content on a blog but I now eagerly await articles by Chuck Klosterman, Tom Bissell, and Chris Jones.
What’s are you currently watching, reading or playing?
I’m waiting for the new season of Armando Iannucci’s The Thick of It; reading the Ten Years Later issue of Granta, and Frontline: The True Story of the British Mavericks Who Changed the Face of War Reporting by David Loyn; and playing Edmund McMillen’s The Binding of Isaac.
For more on Takaaki and his work visit
Site:
www.conditionONE.com
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