>Andy Huntington

Artist, Designer

Andy Huntington is an artist and designer working across sound and interaction design. After studying music at the University of Westminster until 2001, he began working as a sound designer and composer for London studio Romandson completing a number of projects for web, CDROM and exhibition. He began to develop his own solo projects and went on to join the interactive department of Fabrica (Benetton's Communication Research Centre) creating performance software, DVDs, CDROMs, soundtoys, an interactive exhibition called DARE at AMMI (New York) and developing United People (a video messaging system for Benetton stores).

Huntington returned to London to study on the RCA's Interaction Design MA. During this time he focused on creating physical sound toys including tapTap and the Beatbox, an adaptation of which was included in the Science Museum London's 2007 Launchpad.

Huntington has worked with the Bartlett's Interactive Architecture unit with Stephen Gage and a group of primary school children to develop 'Creating an Ecology': a floor based interactive environment. In addition to this work with schools he works with Andy Cameron developing the video blogging system filmIt for the Helen Hamlyn Trust.

Huntington’s main interests include developing playful experiences in variety of contexts, particularly musical ones and the interplay between tools and toys. He has just started to collect Brasilian percussion instruments.