There was more than one night lit by fireworks during our time in ST Jean Cap Ferrat, but that one was just spectacular. No better than Miles Davis to tell the story.

It would be absurd to talk about electric guitars without talking about music. So when I undertook the project of making a timeline about the history of electric guitars, it naturally turned very rock and roll… inside and out. Starting from the 30s, decades in music consecutively flooded Nguma’s itunes playlists, with surges of Wes Montgomery, Link Wray and, of course, Led Zep.

Studying vintage guitar models doesn’t go without side effects. I quickly felt like a kid in a candy store. I also felt plastered with shame for not having started a personal collection yet. (Owning a PRS SE custom doesn’t qualify, even if it’s actually a pretty good budget guitar.)

So, how do you start a guitar collection? What should be my first pick? Hard not to have a gargantuan appetite with such a menu. Rickenbacker’s Model B lap steel is a beast with a wild roar (1936!), while every lick from an original Gibson SG would burn like the flames of hard rock hell.
Well give me a bit more time for making a choice. In the meantime, you got a peak at what’s coming. The Electric Guitar Timeline is an inhouse project, and is backed by the best investors in town: Pat Sion, Fred Will and Gene Rossity.  Got curiosity? Want to help? Drop a note to info@nguma.com.

I work on a 13″ Macbook. Having to move quite a lot, I find it much handier than the larger sizes, but from time to time, I get frustrated at being restrained to such limited visual space. In those precise moments, even a professional diagramming tool doesn’t replace a good old writeboard. Problem: There was no writeboard at hand, and I needed to lay down the basic architecture for the underlying data of a new project. Post-its and red tape helped get a clearer vision of how data should be structured, and tackle many issues before running into them.

The result was both satisfying, both from a useful standpoint as from an aesthetic one. No matter which stage you are at web development, there’s always an artistic side to it.

- Gregory Mirzayantz

Our latest project got us involved in the intricate world of analytics and infographics. To the occasion, we had to roll up our sleeves and dig back into the archive for some flash work. All for good, since I stumbled upon a few experiments, such as this one. All of it was done with Flash 6(!) and basically work out of a randomization and a seed system. For your eyes only…

As a result of a study on the concept of co-working, we ended up with a small poster that promotes the offering to our friends at New Work City. Breaking free from the cubicle is literal, reusing well known imagery from the breakout game serie.

This image is part of a serie of conceptual photographs, taken in a kitchen environment. The idea behind those pictures is to suggest life in landscapes composed essentially by artificial inanimates.

This is a first of a serie on visuals about human emotions and their potential impact. The goal is to match the following equation: 1 emotion + 1 action = 1 visual.