The site for Uproot, the interactive design and development firm run by myself and Adam Slayer, is live. Take a look at http://getuproot.com.
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It is truly bittersweet that I announce I’ve left the team at Teehan+Lax. My time there was amazing. Contributing to award-winning work with easily the most creative and down-to-earth people I’ve ever worked with made it hard to call what I did a job.
My next step is a Partnership at Uproot, a creative technology shop [...]

After 3+ months, my library at Image Spark is starting to take shape. I find it fascinating that the images I’ve collected are revealing tastes that I was never aware of.
For example, as you can see above I’m drawn to minimal and vintage items, things with wood and I’ve got a thing for posters. I [...]

In this economic climate, you’re probably not thinking about airports. However, when traveling it’s the one thing you’ll always have a comment about – and it’s probably not a nice comment. On the flip side, there are some great airports out there. If you’re traveling soon, maybe you’ll pass through one of these.

Last night something terrible happened. A young woman was struck and killed crossing Front St. shortly before the Raptors game ended. There were little to no people around at the time. Today, the local newspaper has an article describing what happened and it mentions that the “street was full of traffic”. This is inaccurate.
I [...]

When it comes to where I live, I’m considering my next space. I’ve reached a point with my current apartment now where I feel it’s comfortable and complete. Without revealing too much, I have an idea where that next space is and this time around I have a great tool to consider and communicate what [...]

Apple will be hosting an event today at 1pm PT where they will announce the features of the upcoming iPhone 3.0 software. (You can follow a live blog of the event on Macworld.)
For those not a member of Apple fandom (or a shareholder), here’s what this means:
For the business, the event is aimed at keeping [...]

I’m back from Vancouver and posting my recaps of IxDA’s Interaction 09 conference on the Teehan+Lax blog. Enjoy.
Oh, and a word about Vancouver: Go.

Headed over to Vancouver for IxDA’s Interaction ‘09 this weekend where I’ll be attending workshops and keynotes about the cutrent state, future and practices of my discipline.
Follow my posts on the Teehan+Lax blog or via Twitter @derekvaz. I’ll try to keep the posts less technical and more about how IxD is shaping the world [...]

ImageSpark officially goes live today.
This is one of the most creative and fun projects I’ve had the chance to work on. What started as a simple idea – to store, share and discover inspirational imagery – evolved over some long weeks (and weekends) into the site you see now.
Though the ImageSpark team was [...]