Friends
Danilo Silvestri Design SGD
Danilo has taught me a lot of things I know: Things I use daily in my work and a lot of things about life by beeing a great friend.
http://www.silvestri.ch
Markku Metso
I just love his illustrations and when we sit around the same table, the ideas just burble out of our heads.
http://markku.groteski.net
http://www.drawerblog.blogspot.com
Jonne Pitkänen
Jonne and I work so differently and that is why we work great together.
http://jonnepitkanen.net
Andreas Wanner: Visual Code
Visual Code is a great collection of ActionScript snippets that are relevant to designers and artists. Thanks to Andres Wanner (Pixelstorm) who is always so generous with his knowledge.
http://www.visualcode.ch
http://www.pixelstorm.ch
annA Emilia
She is a former student of mine – no matter how proud I would be – I can't take any credits for the way annA draws and paints.
http://www.annaemilia.com
http://annaemilial.blogspot.com
Jasso Lamberg
With Jasso I have a lot of good discussions about culture, society etc.
http://www.typo.fi
quadesign partner ag
Quality design made in Switzerland. I did freelance work for this successful design bureau and it was enjoyable.
http://www.quadesign.ch
Personal
Pictures
Here you can find some of my photos on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/martin_bircher
Videos
My stuff on Vimeo and YouTube:
http://www.vimeo.com/martinbircher/videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMartinBircher
Blog
I am contributing to a blog called Parafovea:
http://www.parafovea.com
Art related things
Cartes Centre of Art and Technology Espoo
Host of the Cartes Flux Festival of New Media Art.
http://cartes-art.fi
http://cartes-art.fi/flux2011
Kouta Kouvolan Taiteilijaseura
I am a member of the Artist Society of Kouvola.
http://kouvolantaiteilijaseura.fi
Publications about my work
kulturmagazin ensuite, Nr. 52, April 2007
Review of www.saitensprung-online.ch, page 42/43:
http://www.ensuite.ch/pdfs/ausgaben07/ensuite_04_07_1.pdf
Annelise Zwez, 2. March 2007
Vernissagerede für Eva Borner/Martin Bircher (www.seitensprung-online.ch):
http://www.annelisezwez.ch/articles/467.php
Swiss TV show "Einstein" 28.06.2007
Showing the orientation and communication system for bus drivers, I have been working on.
http://www.videoportal.sf.tv/video?id=dfc467bb-f75d-4f48-b624-649a6b07618b
Tools
Processing
Processing is an open source programming language and environment to program images, animation, and sound. I use/used it in several projects and I have to say: It's great!
http://processing.org
Arduino
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. Well it is easy – that's why everybody is using it... including me.
http://www.arduino.cc
Wiring
Wiring is the big brother of Arduino and like the most of the bigr brothers, it is stronger. Wiring is based on Processing.
http://wiring.org.co