Attention Grabbing | Interactive | Immersive | Generative

Objects + Spaces +
Experiences

Experience Design | Creative Technology | New Media
Unforgettable experiences.
Out-there ideas.
Bringing moon shots to reality.
Let me help you create something that
people won't stop talking about.
Past Clients:
Google Microsoft LinkedIn HBO The Gates Foundation Dell Smartsheet F5 Red Bull Music Asurion Citibank Deschutes Brewery
Google Microsoft LinkedIn HBO The Gates Foundation Dell Smartsheet F5 Red Bull Music Asurion Citibank Deschutes Brewery

Recent Work

Rapids
Self Commissioned | Seattle, WA

Rapids is an immersive new media art piece that plays with the shifting perspective of information flowing through high and low resolution mediums in physical space. Using the Unreal game engine and Touchdesigner, the generative fluid simulation populates disks in real-time with buoyancy and physics, allowing them to float down the system representing a literal flow of data across the 40' long piece.

  • My Roles:
  • Installation Design
  • Software Development
  • Hardware Integration
  • Lighting System
Generative New Media Immersive
Team: Ben Chaykin | Chris Sims
Currents
LinkedIn | San Francisco, CA

Spanning 40 feet across the top floor of LinkedIn's San Francisco tower, Currents illuminates the executive briefing center with generative visuals driven by the Bay's weather and tidal changes in real-time.

4 unique generative systems are scheduled to accent the mood and feeling of those who occupy this inspiring shared workspace.

  • My Roles:
  • Systems Architecture
  • Data Integration
  • Software Development
Generative Data Driven Permanent
Team: Very Suspicious Projects | Experience Research Lab | Acrylicize | MonsterRoute
Amazing Stories
Asurion | Nashville, TN

To highlight positive customer experiences, Asurion commissioned an interactive installation in the lobby of its new headquarters in Nashville, TN.

Guests interact with 5 different animated stories using motion sensors, IR touch, and directional speakers. The stories manifest onto a warm, wood-clad wall, dimensionally profiling buildings of a town . This town's scene changes in real-time based the time of day, sunrise and sunset, as well as weather patterns and holiday events.

  • My Roles:
  • Software Architecture
  • Media System Design
  • Hardware Integration
  • Projection Mapping
  • Software Development
Interactive Immersive Permanent
Team: Belle & Wissel | Very Suspicious Projects
The Salmon People
Smartsheet | Seattle, WA

The Salmon People is an interactive installation curated by Matika Wilbur at Climate Pledge Arena that immerses the audience in the world of the Salmon. For thousands of years the Coast Salish people of the Pacific Northwest have organized their lives around the management and return of the Salmon People, who are considered relatives. The Salmon People urges onlookers to consider the human impacts on Salmon habitat and climate change.

Learn more about the installation:
The Salmon People

  • My Roles:
  • Software Architecture
  • Hardware Design & Integration
  • Tracking System
  • Projection Mapping
  • Software Development
Immersive Interactive Campaign
Team: Matika Wilbur | Shaun Peterson | Tahoma Peak Solutions | Very Suspicious Projects
Now Arriving
F5 Inc. | Seattle, WA

Now Arriving is an optimistic and surreal immersive interactive audio/visual experience.

This massive, transportable, interactive experience invites guests to call an 'elevator' from the facade of a modified shipping container. When the doors open, and the guest enters, the walls offer a rear-projected 360° view into fantastical worlds, then back to reality.

  • My Roles:
  • Concepting
  • Installation Design
  • Hardware Design & Integration
  • Projection Mapping
  • Software Development
Immersive Interactive Campaign Commission
Team: Sky Iraheta | Garrette Estoque | Very Suspicious Projects | Photon Factory
UNG Interactive Books
The Gates Foundation | New York, NY

During the 2017 United Nations Summit, The Gates Foundation hosted an event to showcase the impact of humanitarian efforts around the world by showing how the world is getting better.

Four digital interactive books were created for attendees to engage with and learn about the positive changes made by advancements in vaccines, agriculture, education, and more. These massive tomes were projection mapped from overhead, and offered 12 areas of tap interaction to display stories, facts, and media.

  • My Roles:
  • Hardware Prototyping & Development
  • Hardware Integration
  • Software Development
Interactive Campaign
Team: Curator Pictures | Very Suspicious Projects
Westworld
HBO | San Diego, CA

A multi-room activation was created for Westworld season 2 for guests attending San Diego and New York comic-con. Two player pianos from the early 20th century were converted to accompany the experience.

One piano lived at the guest signup where guests could use a local website to request songs and find hidden easter eggs. The other piano lived within the experiences recreation of the mariposa saloon where guest relaxed at the end of the experience.

  • My Roles:
  • Hardware Development
  • Hardware Integration
Immersive Interactive Campaign
Team: Digital Kitchen | Very Suspicious Projects
Rose
B612 | Seattle, WA

Rose is a self guided meditation experience with 8 different scenes of generative visuals and engaging audio. It was built to help individuals decompress and better reflect on their lives in the current moment and understand how to process and deal with emotions.

The audio-visual experience creates a moment of solitude and presence through a 20 minute session.

  • My Roles:
  • Lighting System
  • Generative Visuals
  • Custom Hardware Design & Integration
  • Software Development
Immersive Generative Permanent
Team: Dain Susman | Chris Watts | Chris Sims | Bobby Davis
Juicy Downpour
Deschutes Brewery | Portland, OR

To accompany the release of Deschutes new hazy IPA, multiple interactive installations were created. A 15' cloud installation was hung at its flagship brewpub in Portland, OR. When beer started flowing from the taps below, the cloud simulated thunder and lighting with audio and light sequences.

For the video campaign a custom mobile shower was created to pump real beer out of a larger than life can through an overhead shower head to simulate beer raining from above.

  • My Roles:
  • Lighting Design
  • Software Development
  • Custom Hardware Design & Integration
  • Plumbing
  • Sourcing
Campaign Reactive Immersive
Team: Digital Kitchen | Very Suspicious Projects

Capabilities

Unique Projects Need Unique Skills

Whether its working alone or with big teams, simple executions to international marketing campaigns - I can create concepts from the ground up or jump in at any stage of a project to finish things off. Even when there isn't a clear solution.

Let me help you create something special.

  • Experience Design
  • Concept Development
  • Hardware/Software Prototyping
  • Product Design
  • UI/UX Design
  • Live Events
  • Project Management
  • Sourcing
  • Interactive Installations
  • Physical Computing
  • Projection Mapping
  • DMX/Lighting Installations
  • People/Object Tracking
  • Front-end Web Development
  • Touchdesigner
  • CAD

About

Ross Monroe

Hey I'm Ross, a designer, engineer, artist and tinkerer. I have a degree in Human Centered Design & Engineering from The University of Washington with backgrounds in web development and live event production.

I've been working as a creative technologist for the past 6 years creating large scale interactive installations, experiential spaces, and prototypes for brands across the country. I'm someone who takes a hands on approach and stresses over the details, while trying to create experiences that tap into human emotion. I always try to build well thought out installations that let people experience what feels like magic when the digital and physical worlds interact.