I am a designer and web developer that focuses on producing innovative interface design and mixing technology to create unique experiences. I am a founding partner in Tubatomic an interactive design firm in Chattanooga, TN.
“What we don’t know yet will be the greatest discovery.”
As a kid growing up in Chanute, Kansas I loved spending my Saturdays writing apps and games in the computer programming language basic. I wrote my first art program so I could paint with a joystick on my hand-me-down Atari 800 computer.
If I wasn’t creating apps I was dreaming up comic book characters or painting fantasy illustrations. After high school I had to choose a career path and felt like commercial art was a logical choice. It fulfilled my creative drive and passion for producing art. At that point I said goodbye to computer programming.
About a year after high school visual art and the computer world connected when I experienced Adobe’s Photoshop. After that it was about 2 years and suddenly I was on the internet with the Netscape Navigator web browser. The world of programming and art was now a useful combination of creative skills when it came to publishing to the web. This was extremely exciting to someone who was always fighting to be published. Now printing costs and distributors where not a limitation. The world was suddenly open.
Publishing to the internet then became my main focus and one of my early projects “Jonni Nitro” was a stylish experiment in vector based rotoscoped animation that would stream over slow modem connections. The series got a lot of attention and I worked with many creatives including one of my idols Marc Silvestri.
Out of the work we did on Jonni Nitro came Tubatomic a design company I co-founded in 1997. Tubatomic would go on to become an interactive design firm in 2002. There I work on many innovative projects one of which in 2004 won the company an Apple Design award for interactive QuickTime.
I’ve been fortunate to have several speaking engagements, all over the world like in Hong Kong, France and San Francisco, even though I am much more at home in brainstorming sessions with my colleges.
Currently I spend the majority of my day to day researching and designing web based interactive media. Always keeping my eyes open on how we can push technology further and spark innovation.
- Alex Ogle