Grant makes things that use technology in unexpected ways to surprise people.
He's an engineering director and creative lead at W+K Lodge.
Selected Work (in reverse chronological order)
Cozmo: Lost In Reddit
What: We put Anki's little robot with big personality, Cozmo into a physical manifestation of Reddit and let Redditors take control.
Over the course of 6 hours, Cozmo and Reddit played a live game where Redditors helped Cozmo escape from actual rooms based on 7 subreddits.
Client: Anki
Role: creative director/creative technologist
With: Dan Viens, Nick Morrisey, Ryan Hartsfield, W+K Lodge
What: We brought the Colonel back to the drive thru by designing & building an animatronic robot that integrates with a real drive-thru system, changing the operator's voice to the Colonel's.
Client: KFC
Role: concept, tech direction, code
With: Lloyd Winter IV, Michael Brandes, Eric Baldwin, Max Folley, Manxue Wang, Nate Horstmann
What: We needed a cool way to introduce our spokescharacter Trish to Soylent's core audience
of early-adopters. So we built a market on the dark web where you can use Bitcoin to
buy the rarest and most special Soylent products from her.
Client: Soylent
Role: concept, copy, tech direction
With: Shaine Edwards, Chuck Carlson, Dan Viens, Manxue Wang
What: As you know, peeing is boring and bathrooms are boring.
So we set out to solve this problem by making a VR experience where you can
pee anywhere while actually peeing in the safety of a real bathroom.
Awards:
2016 Product Hunt Golden Kitty for WTF Product Of The Year
Verizon in Minecraft
What: We extended Verizon's network into Minecraft because video games are one of the few places they don't already cover.
We created software to build video and websites out of Minecraft blocks in real-time. YouTubers made video calls, browsed the web, sent selfies, and ordered pizza without leaving the game.
Client: Verizon
Role: concept, tech direction, copy
With: Chuck Carlson, Aaron Allen, Jason Kreher, James Steele
What: We made an online endurance game for Dodge where you could touch Ron Burgundy.
A real-time system tracked the gameplay and the winner touched Ron for 41 hours. We created a
custom CAPTCHA, Ron Burgundy's Human Verification System For Websites, to prevent cheating.
What: We built a counter for Nike that counted the number of times somebody
counted on Kobe in real time.
Client: Nike
Role: lead developer
Coke Chase
What: People watching the Super Bowl could use our system to vote via social media on the ending
of Coca-Cola's spot. We built a real-time system for capturing their votes.