Every year for the last few years, my family has sent increasingly more complex and interesting Christmas cards. It’s become tradition to put well over 60 collective hours of production time – half of which past midnight (and not just by myself), hundreds of dollars and a frantic last minute mass mailing just to hear the words “best card yet” from our family and friends.

This year, instead of shipping out a hundred hand-made books or three-foot-long fold outs, we decided to save our fingers from the paper cuts and our wallets from the printing costs.

We had Kinkos whip up a box of these…

The inside reads: “Find them this holiday season at byronmurray.com”

Happy Holidays to you all, and thanks for a great year! Here’s hoping that 2009 is as fruitful as the last.

If you live in San Francisco, come out for the release party tonight!

After the release party, you will be able to download it for yourself!

Fireflies is a game using anaglyph red/blue 3D. Joannie Wu and I designed and developed the game over the last two months for Kokoromi’s Gamma3D exhibition, this upcoming Wednesday, Nov 19th. If you’re going to be in Montreal for the MIGS video game creators conference, be sure to check out Gamma3D and play Fireflies!

After the exhibition, you can download and play Fireflies yourself. Fireflies runs on Mac OSX, and we recommend an Xbox 360 controller for the best gameplay. You’ll need anaglyph glasses, which you can get for free online.

A prototype interface for a touch-screen ’surface’ application for sampling a video portfolio I created for Rehab Studio in February. This interface would be displayed on a 60″ LCD touch screen embedded into a table surface.

Evolution of the shapes on the surface show and hide new clips available to watch. The clips available may change throughout the course of the day.

Watch it in HD.

A week ago I got a shiny new iPhone. A few days later I got my Developer’s Certificate and the API. Two days after that, today, I’ve got the first app up and running!

It’s a port of Golan Levin’s Yellowtail with the small addition of multi-touch.

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The size of each country’s circle represents how many medals they were awarded for that particular year. Scroll back through each summer games to see how countries fared over time. Click the “by ranking” tab to sort the countries into a list.

The graphic was created using a force-directed graph using a particle system. Countries try to locate themselves near where they are geographically located as well as close to geographically neighboring countries. The circles do not overlap. Flash is a bit too slow to be interactive, so there is a pre-render on our side to determine how each year’s layout will appear.

A visualization of all new polls for the presidential race shows poll’s margin of error and statistically significant leads. This graphic uses a special image-baking technique to be iPhone friendly!

Blame my deep-rooted love of object and form for my self-prescribed side project for the last few weeks: cataloging and documenting the Olympic Torches from Berlin to Beijing. Extra thanks for NYT reporter Phil Patton for the narration.