David Lu, Intern, New York

David Lu recently studied at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, in Ivrea, Italy. There he pursued a personal interest in media art and design, collaborating with such designers as Amy Franceschini and Casey Reas. His projects are explorative, yet thoughtful, in nature, involving elegantly designed screen-based and physical interfaces to custom software.

One personal project, for example, is a web browser that uses a vintage rotary phone dial as a physical input device; one dials an IP address rather than typing a URL.

David holds BA degrees in Computer Science, Economics, and Psychology from Rutgers College. Currently, he is rediscovering a love of drawing and handmade things, hiding from technology whenever possible.

More information at www.david-lu.net