Between 2018 and 2019, I built The End of Emotional Privacy, my Master's thesis at IAAC exploring how empathy could be felt physically.

I designed a bodysuit that translates emotions into real-time heat, using infrared sensors to read body temperature and heat pads built from conductive thread, so happiness, sadness, anxiety, and fear could be physically felt on the wearer's back. I paired it with a live p5.js visualization so people could see the detected emotional state as well as feel it.

It was selected for Global Grad Show in Dubai, later exhibited at the Design Museum of Barcelona, and covered by El País and TV3.

this may be one of the coolest things i've seen on contra yet. incredible idea, not to mention the execution!

Here’s how I determined the visuals for this personal project.

Once the theme and moodboard were set, the next thing I thought about was the structure of the video: what do I want to show, and how should each visual connect to the next?

From there, I structured the flow as:

Object → Observation → Deconstruction → Experimentation

This structure was then translated into each shot you see in this motion design video.

For the visual style, I combined digital aesthetics and editorial brutalism through pixel textures, ASCII graphics, glitch, construction grids, data-inspired visuals, and brutalist typography.

This visual approach was heavily inspired by the work of Riccardo Agostinelli & Dan Neuenhaus.

Which shot do you find the most visually satisfying?

Concept, Design & Animation by me