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Ross Cooper is an artist, designer & director. Ross is primarily concerned with the power of good ideas. His varied experience and skills allows him to tackle projects in an open-minded and flexible way, through the most appropriate media. As an artist he has exhibited widely throughout Europe (Berlin, Linz, Madrid, Milan, Paris and Riyeka), Asia (Bangkok, Taichung and Tokyo) and at the ACMI in Melbourne and Siggraph in Los Angeles. His original thinking and innovative solutions have resulted in numerous awards including 2 Silver D&AD's, 1 Silver nomination and 3 'in books', the Gold award from the Art Directors Club of Europe as well as awards from Ars Electronica, Disney, Intel, ACA Media Arts and the Royal College of Art. Ross teaches graphic design at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design.
The majority of his design consultancy work is confidential research and development and as a result of NDA's cannot be shown here, but includes product innovation, concept design, interaction design, immersive environments, interactive narratives & scenario planning. Recent clients include Sony Ericsson, Sony, HP, Lexus, Johnsonbanks, BBC's Creative R&D and Ford’s Future Products Group.
Contact Ross [at] RCStudios.com or call me +44(0)7780 702 798. |
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Signed to Colonel Blimp under the name OneInThree, Ross Elliot Cooper & Bugsy Riverbank Steel have recently directed videos for Bloc Party, Badly Drawn Boy & X-Press 2. |
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Crumbs is a simple & innovative cd player concept and an example of behavioural design. To play a cd you press down on it, when it finshes, it pops up, ready for you to swap it or push it down to play again. When playing a ring of led's on the front face indicate the number of remaining tracks, which switch off as each track ends. The physical design acknowldeges Fukasawa's work for Muji. Concept, design & direction: Ross Cooper. Modelling & animation: John Willlows & Ross Cooper. Link contains video with sound. |
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Ross consulted on the design and interaction of the Johnson Banks website. Johnson Banks are one of the leading UK design consultancies. The XML driven Flash site built by Matt & George has a unique personality and uses a dynamic, scalable, word driven, spider diagram interface which is as hard to describe as it is easy and fun to use. The interface flexibly showcases a large amount of Johnson Banks work, identities, logos, posters, writing and more. |
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This book provides an inspirational education in photography for art, design and photography students as well as young and new photographers. Author John Ingledew. Designed by Ross Cooper Studios, designers Ross Cooper & Joshua Leigh. UK publishers Laurence King, US publishers Abrams. A companion website ReadersChallenge.com showcases reader submitted photos in response to creative briefs set by the author. |
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An A1 poster designed by Ross Cooper & Nic Woodley. Contains over 400 hand traced highly detailed silhouettes, printed in bright orange, (Pantone Orange 021c), then the same silhouette is overprinted in Silver 'scratch-off' ink. This lets you customise your own unique poster by revealing everything you have ever... Visit EverythingIHaveEver.com for more details & where to buy it. |
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Last is a clock that records history. The clock has most recently been exhibited at Siggraph, Ars Electronica and in 'Navigator' in Taiwan which featured the best of the last 15 years of digital art. The clock has won numerous awards including 2 Silver D&AD's visit the Last clock website for more details. This project was a collaboration between Jussi Ängeslevä and Ross Cooper. |
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Are a series of working digital wrist watches designed to provoke thought about the cultural functions of watches and suggest alternative visions. for more information visit the website. This project was lead by Crispin Jones with Anton Schubert & Graham Pullin both of Ideo and Ross Cooper. |
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Fliker.com is an image search engine and an inspirational tool. As you type & refine your search, you see results as fast as your connection allows. You can scroll back through images by dragging the timeline. Any image you pause on, is copied to your clipboard and can be pasted into any application. Made by Jussi & Ross. |
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Biganimal & Ross Cooper were asked to develop the 1st version Visos interface and dashboard into working prototypes that could be displayed across multiple interior mockups of the car as well as being showcased along the 100 ft video wall on the Ford stand at the Geneva International Motor show 2004. Watch a video demo of the car, show and interface, requires Quicktime 35meg. |
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Ford Visos concept car interface ver 1.0 | 2003.
The Ford Visos Concept car is a show case for new ideas in automotive electronics and interaction between man and machine. Biganimal & Ross Cooper developed and designed the digital dashboard and onboard computer installed in the Visos concept car at the Frankfurt Motor Show 2003. Watch a video of the interface which requires Quicktime or see Screenshots which requires Flash. Received a D&AD Silver Nomination. |
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Soft Cinema by Lev Manovich mines the creative possibilities at the intersection of software culture, cinema, and architecture. The project investigates how the new representational techniques of soft(ware) cinema can be deployed to address the new dimensions of our time. With Stuart Sinclair, Ross Cooper produced motion graphics that illustrated the narrative of Mission to Earth. |
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This Set of six espresso cups was designed by Ross & Neil Aitken, a limited edition run of 10000 sets was produced. See the portraits photography Ross & Neil (from left to right Kira Trowell, Neil Aitken, Darren Buckingham, Regine Stefan, Ross Cooper & Sion Ap Tomos. More... |
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Howies make t-shirts with a commendable philosophy, I designed this, sent it to them and they liked it and decided to print it. It's their 4th largest seller, so they have resurrected it, in red and dark blue, buy one. |
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Both Universal Leonardo with Us Two & Johnsonbanks.co.uk with Matt & George have been shorlisted for the 2007 Design Week Awards in the same category.
Johnsonbanks.co.uk has just been selected (twice, Interface & Art Direction) for this year’s D&AD annual, which is a bonus.
Everything I have ever... is to be exhibited at designers block for the milan furniture fair 2006, see you there.
Brandwashed is back on sale in the retro section of the howies website.
Ross will be debating 'What is interactive art?' at the Tea Rooms for the Art Fund on the 24th January 2006, more details here.
Ross is consulting on the redesign of the johnsonbanks website with the help of Matt & George.
Ross has been appointed to consult on Universal Leonardo an innovative project aimed to broaden and deepen our understanding of Leonardo da Vinci in conjunction with Us Two and KeepThinking.
The Ford Visos HMI has been highly commended in the 2005 Design Week awards as well as 'in book' at D&AD 2005.
The Ford Visos HMI (in conjunction with Biganimal) has just been nominated for the 2005 Design Week awards.
The Last clock just received a BAFTA Nomination for the 2005 BAFTA Interactive Awards.
Ross Cooper Studios has just started designing the book 'Photography' by John Ingledew for Laurence King. This is the 3rd in the series following Typography & Fashion Design. To be published Autumn 2005.
The Last clock is to be shown at the Design Museum as part of 'You are Here - The Design of Information' from 12th February to 15th May 2005
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Ross Cooper Studios identity | 2002...
A simple red sticker is used on recycled London Underground travel cards as a business card, and brands everything from cd's to letterheads. |
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A study of simple mouse & keyboard driven interactions focused on the dreaded Online Form try this simple version which just has just 6 questions. The full version with 20 questions runs as an installation and is not available online. Requires Shockwave player ver. 8. |
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Vista is a digital clock that connects places to time, maybe one always tries to get home before the fence, or at the weekend sleep in until the apple tree. More... |
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Ross designed this show of unique coffee cups. The show had to be installed in 4 hours and Ross' solution was to package each individual cup in a clear inflatable pillow and suspend them from the gallery ceiling allowing them to be safely handled, the lighting and signage were likewise suspended. See a very compressed video of the show by Chris Stephens, Photograph by John Ingledew. |
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Six nine segment LED, show the hours, minutes and seconds on this concept watch. |
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A second concept for the Saint Martins illy cup, using a mirror glaze on the cup to reflect the seemingly abstract pattern on the saucer into the illy logo. by Ross & Neil Aitken. |
All content Copyright Ross Cooper © 1999 - 2005. Contact me Ross [ at ] RCStudios.com |
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