Inventor, Designer, Artist, Educator
John Edmark has been teaching visual design at Stanford since 2003. His diverse body of work explores and celebrates patterns arising from space, growth, movement, and light. He is the creator of the Helicone, an interactive kinetic desk toy, and Blooms, a new type of sculpture that animates when spun under a strobe light. Online videos of his artwork have been viewed over 60 million times. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Core77, and Colossal, and on NPR’s Science Friday. He has designed interactive artwork for numerous museums including the Exploratorium, the San Jose Museum of Art, The Museum of Illusions, the Copernicus Museum, and the Swiss Science Center. He has been an Artist-in-Residence atThe Exploratorium and AutoDesk. Prior to focusing on art and design, he spent several years researching virtual environments at Bell Laboratories. He teaches in the Design Program at Stanford University.