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Tactile Pictures' creative group of artists and engineers
is uniquely capable of creating distinctive
and attractive designs and solving complex engineering problems.
We draw inspiration from
broad interests in art and culture, society, history, travel,
people and nature. Each individual's training in a
wide range of disciplines allows us to start and complete
projects with a small,
focused
team with
minimal
overhead.
Partners
Lina Hoshino
Lina has led the creative and design effort in wide
range of new media projects including web sites, presentations,
games, animations, and CD-ROMS. Outside of Tactile Pictures,
she has directed, co-directed, shot and produced the video
shorts "Kagero" and "The Story of Margo" which were both selected
to be shown in a number of film/video festivals including
the Mill Valley Film Festival, UmeŚ International Film Festival(Sweden),
San Francisco Film Arts Festival. "Story of Margo" received
a Bronze award at 1997 Tokyo Video Festival. She also designed
a theatrical back drop for Icicle production, "Along for the
Ride." She studied painting and sculpture at Carnegie Mellon
University, then taught English in Japan for a year before
moving to San Francisco to start Tactile Pictures.
Derek Chung
Derek Chung brings both technical and creative backgrounds
to the engineering side of Tactile Pictures. With Tactile
Pictures, he created the Tactile12000,
visual MP3 DJ mixing software, which was featured in Print
Magazine's Interaction 2000 as well
as music and software magazines around the world. He also
co-founded Urbanpixel, where he helped develop a new paradigm
for organizing and navigating information on the web.
Derek is on the board of IEEHA, a non-profit that develops
digital media for education on a range of social justice
and
environmental issues. Through a donor-advised fund at the
San Francisco Foundation, he recommends grants to organizations
working on Asian-American issues and social justice. Before
Tactile, he worked as a software engineer on Oracle Graphics,
a visual application tool for Oracle Corporation. He has
also studied and practiced design, interaction and art for
the last ten years, and has exhibited work at APAture 2002.
Derek holds degrees
from Carnegie
Mellon University in Applied Mathematics and Computer Engineering.
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