MetaCreations Fellows @mprove

An interface is about hiding complexity from the user.
It's about guiding a process, without cognitive understanding
of what goes on beneath.
Interface design is the art of enveloping the observer
in an enticing, “try this” exploration with ever-new elements and designs
as the tools to triumph in new territories.
– Kai Krause, 1996

Companies come and go. Nevertheless, the creative people behind have not retired.
Since 2003, this page assembles some insights to the latest projects of Kai Krause and his companions (in no specific order).

Kai Krause	Kai@Subblue Frax \| stuff.co.nz \| cnet \| Frax on app-design-critique Kai Krause on edge Wikipedia on Kai Krause ~~Burg Rheineck 1108-1852~~ \| Illustration 1875 \| Illustration der Torseite \| Von dem alten Schloß ist nur noch ein zerfallener Thurm vorhanden… \| Illustration vom Garten 1840 \| #Rheineck bei der UB Düsseldorf Kai at TED8 /1996 Flashback The Interface of Kai Krause’s Software Kai's Power Tips and Tricks for Adobe Photoshop Kai Krause über seine Freundschaft zu Douglas Adams
Eric Wenger	U&I software Kai Krause on ArtMatic: power ohne Ende und ohne Anfang. Absurd wie Eric das immer hinkriegt. ~~Eric Wenger, le magazine video des arts graphiques & visuels - 3 part video interview~~ Visit my art gallery with some images created with ArtMatic and ArtMatic Voyager MetaSynth 5 discussed on createdigitalmusic.com Eric on facebook
Kai Gradert kaigradert Phil Clevenger	Cooperating Systems LittleKai demonstrated the system HelloWorld to me and I am deeply impressed. CoSi has released a beta version of HelloWorld for Windows. Someone else is also very impressed: «What you have is the most interesting thing I’ve seen in ages. Something like this with a company behind it should do very well. I’m certainly going to be looking forward to it on my Macintosh ... Congratulations on this product.» – Steve Wozniak, January 25, 2003 Kai moved on to(&off) google while Phil joined Adobe Systems.
Phil Clevenger	Adobe Systems ~~Adobe Labs: Project Lightroom~~ George Jardine on Adobe Lightning ^{55MB, 22', QuickTime} ~~Phil Clevenger – Lightroom Interface Designer~~ Pam & Phil - One Year in India
Kai Gradert (again) kaigradert	dotspots.com DotSpots is a semantic annotation system that brings the wisdom of crowds to every meme (block of text) on the web, and leverages automatic semantic matching to distribute each contribution to every instance of that meme across the web. ~~chee.rs~~
Joseph Linaschke	Apple ~~Aperture~~ ~~Motion~~ Final Cut Studio ~~Joseph Linaschke - Photographer~~
Andy Bearsley Matt Fox-Wilson Mike Van Bokhoven	~~ambient design~~ ArtRage4
Michael Herf Robert Bailey rbealpro	stereopsis.com Picasa, an image browser for Windows (Oct 2002) little chat about Picasa on Camera Lucida
John Wilczak	New MetaTools MetaSquares for MacOS X and iPhone
Marc Keohane Katherine Howard	Smith Micro the new home of Poser
Larry Weinberg	Ghost Effects, Inc.
Ben Weiss	shell&slate software Ben Weiss on friendfeed Frax \| stuff.co.nz \| cnet
Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Ben Weiss, Ian Gilman	Photosynth Seadragon™ by SandCodex was acquired by Microsoft in 2006 Blaise Agüera y Arcas: How PhotoSynth can connect the world's images Today Blaise is architect at google /2016 – cf. TED 2016: How computers are learning to be creative
Ian Gilman iangilman	iangilman blogs at Thoughtsam footprints on the web worked at Seadragon, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2006 openseadragon on github “I've released a set of 48 classic sliding block puzzles (from the 1991 game Heaven & Earth) designed by puzzle master Scott Kim!”
Eric Yee	ideasbeyond
Scott Kim	scottkim Shuffle Brain
Dean Douger	douger.com
Javier Roca	artroca.com
Mark Zimmer	Apple working on Core Image, see also macnn: Apple patent: OS X Leopard may introduce Live Desktop Before the he was at fractal.com. Computer Software Pioneer Mark Zimmer interviewed by Maximilian Schönherr,1996
Frank Casanova	Apple Director of QuickTime
Andrea Pessino	ReadyAtDawn after World of Warcraft for Blizzard
Nathan M. Harris	luna1.com
Steve Cooper	Havok Steve is co-founder of Curious Labs, now e frontier
Susan Kitchens susankitchens	auntialias.com Susan's blog: 2020 Hindsight Susan at friendsfeed
Athena Kekenes	Athena on Behance
Ken Musgrave	Ken "Doc Mojo" Musgrave CEO of Pandromeda, Inc. 2020Hidsight:Dell Hell, A Man Named Ken Musgrave, and No Concession to the Hated User
Christopher Cowan	Derry Journal newspaper group as graphic designer for the newspapers – he does not take any resposnibility for the website design. Christopher is member of the band Lulubelle III
Marcel Magis Steff Fehrle	New Thinkland Nudelsuppes Welt: Kai Krause über Douglas Adams, Juli 2006
Adrian Mendoza Amenfoto	amenfoto Experimental: Adrian Mendoza Adrian Mendoza
Dieter Heise	OctoberFeast a German-style bakery in San Francisco