Hello everyone,

I've recently worked with Wieden+Kennedy London on the identity for this year's onedotzero festival. All identity assets were generated using a tailor made design/visualization tool, which we then also adapted to create a large scale (48m wide) interactive installation at BFI Southbank during the London festival. The installation allowed users to submit their own messages and manipulate them through gestural interactions using various features of the new Maemo/Linux based Nokia N900 device. The software client for the phone was developed by Gary Birkett and will be available under GPL (TBC) soon.

To complete the community ethos of our identity concept we decided to open source the entire generator, installation software & tools in the hope to encourage further discussion, educate and hopefully see some wonderful new additions/re-renderings of the whole concept...



You can find this all (incl. detailed documentation) over on Google Code:

http://onedotzero-ident.googlecode.com/

Note: Even though Processing has been used for this project, it played a rather small part and you'll also not be able to use the source code in the Processing IDE. The main reason for this is that the application has been developed in Java 6 and is using the "new" (since 2004) syntax features extensively (annotations, generics, extended for-loops etc.). I still hope though that at least some of you will find this project interesting and maybe use it as jumping board to give Eclipse a serious spin and start using some of the actually really nice (contrary to popular prejudice) language features plain Java has to offer (for example XML parsing with JAXB, the Collections API with generics etc.). Personally, Eclipse has seriously transformed & expanded my understanding and working with code and software architecture and (unlike my toxiclibs) this project contains a lot of documentation to help you getting started.

One kind request to those who do give this a go & end up creating some modifications: Please do get in touch (here, flickr, twitter or google code) and/or share your results online. We've also set up a new flickr group for that purpose over here:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/onedotzero-identity-2009/

Enjoy!

Thanks mister, we really hope that the release will resonate with at least some Processing heads

On a related note, I also just wanted to mention that the development notes are now complete too and worth checking out too:

http://code.google.com/p/onedotzero-ident/wiki/DevelopmentGuide
http://code.google.com/p/onedotzero-ident/wiki/UserGuideConfig

This guide explains how to download the source code or check it out from Mercurial, import into Eclipse, build & bundle a standalone application (incl. using a native OSX launcher). The project setup/folder structure might also be interesting for people to take a look at who're still struggling getting OpenGL to work under Eclipse...

If you're running into problems or have further questions just ask (either on the project wiki there or here)!

it looks nice, thanks for sharing the code.