Brendan Dawes is Creative Director for magneticNorth, an interactive design group based in Manchester, UK. Over the years he's helped to realise projects for a wide range of brands including Diesel, BBC, Fox Kids, Channel 4, Disney, Benetton, Kellogg's and Coca-Cola.

Ever since his first experiences with the humble ZX81 back in the early eighties, Brendan has continued to explore the interplay of people, code, design and art both in his role leading the team at mN and on brendandawes.com, a personal space where he publishes random thoughts, toys and projects created from an eclectic mix of digital and analog objects.

Brendan regularly speaks at design conferences across the globe, has been featured in many magazine articles and books on interaction design as well as writing two solo works published by New Riders. The Museum of Modern Art in New York featured Brendan's "Cinema Redux" project as part of the ground breaking "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition in 2008