Haakon Faste
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The Wrecking Crew 
The design firm I started. 
Evaro Italia 
The design firm my wife Eva started. 
Cognitive Systems 
A talk I gave at Arizona State University. 
Value Driven Design 
A talk I gave at CCA. 
CCA / Audi: Beyond Mobility 
A workshop I led for AUDI in San Francisco. 
Design Research in HCI 
A talk I gave at Carnegie Mellon University. 
Motiv 
The wearable technology firm I co-founded. 
RoboWall 
An interactive system I designed and built. 
Spontaneous Design Studio 
A course I taught at Carnegie Mellon. 
Cheatstorming! 
A design method we invented. 
Design-Driven Narrative 
A research project on storytelling in design. 
How Learning Works: Design Education 
A paper I wrote on design education. 
Posthuman Factors 
This is what I wrote for my dissertation. :-) 
Faste Foundation for Design Creativity 
A nonprofit I started to remember by dad. 
Biohappy Concept 
An EU organic certification logo I designed. 
Ambithink 
An early prototype of the Creativity Kernel. 
The Ultimate Aesthetic Experience 
The VR demo I built for my dissertation. 
Hiding 
A video art piece I made with Eva. 
Music For Robots 
An algorithm I wrote for robots to listen to. 
Perceptual Robotics Research 
Work I did as part of my PhD in Italy. 
Passages 
A VR experience for interacting with robots. 
Conte Max Firenze 
Brand work I did for an Italian fashion line. 
IP Telephone 
The phone I designed for Cisco Systems. 
Virtual Interface Concepts 
Drawings I made of interaction devices. 
Theory 
The big round sculpture I built out of steel. 
Bank of America: The Way We Pay 
A financial services project I worked on. 
Microsoft Livemail Version 12 
The future of email I designed in 2005. 
Toyota FT-SX Concept 
The car I designed that became the Venza. 
Oliso Touch & Glide Iron 
The iron I worked on. (It has motorized feet). 
Duncan CoolTouch Kiln 
An engineering project for Duncan Ceramics. 
Untitled (Leone) 
A sculpture I made for the city of Florence. 
Vault of Light 
A sculpture I made for the city of Athens. 
Antithesis 
The performance we did in welded masks. 
Untitled (Tuscan Series) 
A series of paintings I made on paper. 
Florence Studio 
The studio I built in Florence, Italy. 
Giornuovo: The Newspaper in the Egg 
The comic book I drew in an Italian castle. 
Theoretical Model of the Universe 
An immersive mixed media environment. 
Via Bolognese Gate 
The gate I designed for a home in Florence. 
Landscape with Wings 
The kinetic sculpture I made for Tuscany. 
Wings for Prometheus 
The mechanical sculpture I made in 2001. 
Simulation 
The magical little sculpture I created. 
Bitstreams Website 
The website I made for the Whitney in NYC. 
Nettmedia Website 
The website I designed for Nettmedia, Inc. 
Yankees Xtreme 3D Stadium Interface 
The website I designed for the NY Yankees. 
Solo Exhibition: Grey Series 
The paintings I made in New York City. 
Synthetic Reflection 
A 3D rendering of my eye, watching you. 
Untitled (Wings) 
The mechanical wings I designed to wear. 
Untitled (White) 
A painting I made in Vermont in the winter. 
DavidBowie.com 
The website I worked on for David Bowie. 
Transparent Virtual Reality Palette 
The virtual interface we designed for NASA. 
Infusion 
A performance/installation in San Francisco. 
Solo Exhibition: Dimensional Paintings 
An exhibition of large optical paintings. 
Infinite Installation 
An immersive perceptual art installation. 
Boom Chameleon 
The interface we designed for Bill Buxton. 
Stratified Grid 
An experience I created out of paper. 
Code 
This was a very large screenprint project. 
Print Collateral 
Graphic design for clients in Silicon Valley. 
Pointcast Identity 
The identify I designed for an early dot-com. 
Officer Turkey 
The comic books I wrote with my brother.