We all have a tendency to envy those with pretty cool jobs. I, for example, am highly envious of my friend Jan Chipchase, who does design research for Nokia and gets to work out what people might be doing with mobiles 10 years into the future.
I also spend time dreaming about doing space research, writing novels or being a chocolate tester.
But this week I have found myself a new dream job, after discovering the website of Mark Coleran, a visual designer based in London who creates fictional interfaces.
That's right: he designs and builds mockups of interfaces that don't exist, mainly for the movies. Up there you can see some of his work on The Island - a rather tawdry cloning thriller featuring Ewan McJedi and Scarlett Johanssen that I remember watching on a transatlantic flight a while back. But forget the film criticism: Coleran's work asks the question "what do we imagine futuristic technology might actually look like?" and then tries to build something that follows the vision.
Interestingly, the end result in the Island (a desk with interactive elements) is a little like the Microsoft Surface demos I've seen - except a zillion times better.
(via Russell Davies)
