2025! A year where I :

• directed, exhibited, and won an award for my first VR film
• created a custom LED lighting system from (nearly) scratch
• exhibited MOTET's first audio-visual work in Faroe Islands
• created visuals for two amazing dance works, in my favourite theatre space
• played MOTET's biggest show yet
• taught another year of graphic design students how to TouchDesigner
• gave a talk about TouchDesigner in front of some of the creators of TouchDesigner

...and I'm super grateful.This is my first time doing a year-review post, encouraged partly by my good friend Joon's articles and particularly this year by this article via Hacker News. I recognise that in the process of writing this there's an extremely high risk of me sounding a) self-important, b) cheesy or c) falsely modest, all of which has (probably sensibly) kept me from writing similar things in the past, but, well, here goes anyway. I'm hoping that writing this'll give me some overview of the projects I've completed this year, what kind of trajectory I'm on, and be of some use or interest to anyone plotting their path through this weird landscape of being.. what do we call ourselves now? Creative Technologists? Digital Artists?

It started by (following Greg's advice) making a list of all the projects and major work-related things that happened in 2025, which I've sort-of done before, and having them all at a glance, their relative durations, what else was going on at the same time, that kind of thing.

More often I've done it for the upcoming year, driven by no small amount of anxiety about new work coming in, and in years where I've known what big projects are coming up, a way to plan around big trips (which is a luxury, for sure) or other life events like, for example, our wedding back in 2023.

It looked a bit like this :

One surprising thing I noticed is that despite feeling like there were huge gaps between projects where I 'wasn't doing anything productive', I really wasn't. There would be weeks in my studio where there was less pressure than previous weeks, but during those time there's always