MATTHEW MANOS

Matthew Manos is an entrepreneur and design-researcher interested in the intersection of business, design, and storytelling. His current work explores the development of systems that facilitate radical approaches to entrepreneurship.

[ongoing] leading A VERYNICE DESIGN STUDIO, an international social design enterprise. 2009-present
[ongoing] co-teaching ENTREPRENEURSHIP 101 at Art Center. 2010-present
[ongoing] THE (DIS)EMBODIED ENTREPRENEUR, my MFA thesis. 2010-present

[forthcoming] lecture on THE (DIS)EMBODIED ENTREPRENEUR at UCLA Design Media Arts. Feb 2012
[forthcoming] SANDU will publish work by VERYNICE for RE:LOGO in china. Feb 2012

[2011] THE MERCED PROJECT is a workshop for building social and speculative enterprise in Merced County
[2011] KNOWLEDGE SHARING 2021 is a mural representation of a 10 year outlook on the digital humanities
[2011] IMPRACTICALLY, PRACTICAL was an exhibition and publication about fictional entrepreneurship
[2011] DEFIANT DEVICES is an exploration of severe constraint as a tool for self-expression
[2011] MADE UP: DESIGN'S FICTIONS was an exhibit that had a rather large array
[2011] OUMEDPO is a trans-poetic trio that performs poems made by computers
[2010] YPORTNE is a business plan fiction about a reversed entropic future
[2010] WEATHER LORE is an alternative future manifested in a weather report
[2010] MANDOLIN & UNICYCLE (BA thesis) is an attempt to learn how to mandolin and unicycle... simultaneously
[2010] MATTER was an exhibit about stuff that UCLA design media art students make
[2009] BLACK TEA is a fictional tea brand for the anarchistic demographic
[2009] RIVER OF SHADOWS is a book that you rip each page to read, developed with The Institute for the Future of the Book
[2009] RADIO ROAD is an online archive of an abandoned radio station in Redwood Shores, CA
[2008] TOGETHER WE LEARN is an augmented flashcard system developed with Casey Reas
[2007] HUMANS AT THE ZOO is something that got me into trouble