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Carbon was invited by Impressions Gallery to develop a digital concept to support Yan Preston’s upcoming Mother River exhibition in 2017. In the course of curating and producing the collection, Yan has collected sound recordings, video and digital maps which tell the story of how Mother River was created. Carbon designed a concept augmented reality experience enabling visitors to see these additional materials throug

Carbon assisted New Zealand based Shotz Creative in preparing an application to the 2015 round of NZ On Air’s Interactive Documentary Fund. Shotz was keen to highlight the effects of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). and Using our experience of crafting and creating community storytelling platforms such as Yarn, Carbon wished to understand where native forms of web storytelling might go next. We proposed to create

Leeds Beckett University’s Behaviour Lab research cluster explores the use of technology to support and maintain positive behaviour change, spanning many faculties and disciplines; from design, sports and healthcare to psychology and digital technology. In Summer 2014, Carbon was commissioned to design and build a app for helping people manage weight-related issues. Working with consultants from Uscreates and r

Award-winning bloggers Veggie Runners, had been experimenting with curated running tours through Leeds, exploring the city’s art, history and architecture. The creators wished to augment these tours with digital experiences and entangling runners more intimately to the communities and cities in which they lived. Carbon worked with Veggie Runners to illustrate the state of the art in mobile platforms, locative m

Spring 2013 saw Carbon collaborate with long-term partner Tethr and Arc Finance to produce concept designs to track the performance of microloans for solar energy across India and Uganda. Our relationship with Tethr focussed on packaging and aggregating various technologies into an appliance that could bring communication and connectivity to distressed, crisis stricken areas. Arc Finance’s role was to provide w

Ditto was the result of an ideation exercise with entrepreneur Surj Patel to create a product that provided a permanent video presence between two places. Intended to create intimacy between families separated by distance and ability, a key consideration was to offer a pair of permanently connected items, where one party could configure it for the other. Carbon and Surj created a fictional product, Ditto, named after

New Zealand is a unique, visually stunning, place with an interesting mix of peoples in a landscape that is rich with metaphor and history. Tourism is one of its greatest exports, and a vital part of that is the fascination visitors have with the Maori culture, people and ideas. A common idea in the Maori way of thinking is their respect of others, a fierce pride combined with humbleness, and a connection between the

Carbon was commissioned by the Wireless Grids Corporation to assist in developing concept applications over a six-month period, which would showcase  technologies licensed from the University of Syracuse’s iSchool. Working with WGC’s UK-based development studio, Carbon contributed to the design of several applications which illustrated the potential of wireless grids technologies, through a series of desi

For more than four decades, Syd Mead’s imagination and illustration has graced many forms of media – from motion pictures, television and industrial design, to architecture and electronic media. Awareness of Mead’s work has been largely driven by movies such as Aliens, 2010, Tron and notably Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner; however connoisseurs and fans have come to regard printed collections of his work as the def

Irna Qureshi and Tim Smith’s Grand Trunk Road, explores the history of the oldest highway in South Asia and its relationship with immigrant communities in the UK. The book consists of 120 photographs and a variety of oral histories. As part of an internal research programme in 2011 exploring the future of books (Books As A Place), Carbon approached Qureshi with a view to interpreting Grand Trunk Road as an electronic