Design thinking, visual articulation and a love for learning guide my actions as a graphic and interactive designer, a design educator, a cross disciplinarian, and a digital conceptualist. This is a selection of my projects, essays and experiences. To learn more about me please email me or download my design & teaching philosophy and my curriculum vitae. design research »Digital Collecting: Thesis »Shareables: File Sharing »The Living Library »Divers' Language System »Visual Noise Experience »Patterns & Chickens »Book Design »Softwear: Digital Textile professional practice teaching experience Information Visualization: patterns and chickens Color and Pattern: This project is a light-hearted blend of modernist abstraction and Christopher Alexander's pattern language theory. The feather color and pattern of a variety of "show chickens" was visually translated and abstracted into identifiable units. The individual blocks represent unique chicken breeds and were placed in a "barnyard." Type and Character: Distinguishable type-based units combine in various syntactical patterns to represent both physical characteristics and personality traits of the specific chicken breeds. Finally, units were placed on chronological and geographic matrixes to reveal breeding preferences in the past century and across cultures (in the United States, Europe and Asia). All content (including design, writing and research) copyright Jamie E. Gray, 2007, unless otherwise attributed. Technical advisement provided by agrayspace creative.