Scott patterson

Scott Patterson is an information architect and interactive designer. He joined the design company Plumb Design (www.plumbdesign.com) in 1999 when he joined the company there was no real specific job role, so he created his own. He was a liaison between the design and technology departments, they called this role Technical producer.
Plumb design was founded in 1997, and then in 2004 they changed their name to Thinkmap .inc, to better represent their software.
While he was with plumb design he helped to create The Visual Thesaurus, he was the site developer on this project.

The Visual Thesaurus is a tool to explore, study and analyse the structure of language. The project was created using java based visualization software, which helps to create dynamic interfaces. All the data for the Visual Thesaurus is accessed off a publicly available reference system, Word. net.
Since leaving Thinkmap Scott Patterson has begun to explore architecture as an interface between the activity of our daily lives and the space of the network. PDPAL is a mobile and PDA based mapping and storytelling project. PDPAL is a multi-component public art project that allows audiences to map their own personal vision of public space.