Cover photograph
A photograph of mine appears on the cover of Watching the English by Kate Fox (Hodder & Stoughton) — the anthropologist's field guide to the hidden rules of English behaviour.
Hertfordshire, UK
Technology, craft, and the places we share.
I build interactive and expressive technology — touchscreens, apps, VR, and physical things — and spend the rest of my time moving: running the long way round, underwater when I can, and looking closely at light, sound and shape.
About
A maker, a runner, and a lot of side quests.
I'm Chris — founder of Vivid Atom, co-chair of the village youth football club, and a restlessly curious tinkerer. I've been running since 2018, dive when the sea allows, and would rather be building something — in software, in electronics (usually an ESP32), or behind a drum kit.
~30,000km run
3,406runs logged
87half-marathons+
1marathon
64max VO₂max
2018running since
The company
Vivid Atom
Founded in 2019, Vivid Atom makes interactive and expressive technology — exhibition and installation work, apps and iOS development, VR / AR / MR, touchscreen experiences, physical computing, 3D printing and engineering, plus websites, branded emails and digital communications for the pharmaceutical, healthcare and medical sectors. Software at the core; craft in the finish.
BEng Computer Games & Internet Technology — University of Essex
Touchscreens
Apps & iOS
VR
AR
MR
Websites
Branded email
Digital comms
Physical computing
3D printing
Engineering
Healthcare comms
Interactive
Exhibitions & installations
Touchscreens, kiosks and tactile exhibits — technology that people walk up to and touch.
Digital
Apps, web & VR/AR
Native apps and iOS work, websites and branded emails, and virtual/augmented experiences — engineered to look effortless.
Interests — not a CV
Things I make, fly, tend, and notice.
The threads that run through the work — some for clients, some for the village, some just because I can't leave them alone.
Make
Interactive & expressive technology
Exhibitions, apps, VR/AR and touchscreens — software at the core, craft in the finish. The workshop is Vivid Atom.
Electronics
ESP32 & embedded
Microcontrollers, LoRa, sensors and 3D printing — hardware that does something in the real world.
Running
Long distances
Most mornings, the long way round. Nearly 30,000 km and counting since 2018.
Diving
Scuba
Underwater, where everything slows down and the rules change.
Drums
Rhythm
Keeping time — the pulse you keep, and the one you're caught by.
Light
Photography
Looking closely at light and place. One of my photographs reached a book cover — the rest live in the gallery.
Geometry
Sound & sacred geometry
Monochord, cymatics, phyllotaxis and the geometry that runs through things — the shape of sound, and the sound of shape.
Ground
The club & the fields
Co-chair of Abbots Youth, and protecting the open ground with Save Our Fields — the work that isn't for sale.
Trace
Family & local history
Archives, estates and the valley — following the names and places that made this ground.
Elsewhere
Other places
Some of the things I look after, out on the web.
Abbots Youth FCGrassroots youth football for the villageabbotsyouthfc.co.uk
EmmetropiaThe eye at rest — clear sight, in measureemmetropia.co.uk
LoomwyrdThe world is woven — a mist-girt Norns' villageloomwyrd.com
Moon AlmanackThe moon, night by night — and four hundred years of lookingmoonalmanack.com
BramblefieldsA world hidden by forgetting — a discovery-adventure in the real worldbramblefields.com
Good Times & Happy DaysA warm little club for small joysgoodtimesandhappydays.com
Helen HurleyA personal front doorhelenhurley.com
Peace of ConsciousnessA free, quiet room for sound, breath and stillnesspeaceofconsciousness.com
Save Our FieldsA community campaign to protect the local meadowssaveourfields.com
Save Our Fields — the appA GPS AR safari; walk a meadow, meet its creaturesapp.saveourfields.com
Vivid AtomInteractive & expressive technologyvividatom.com
WingmanSixA project in the hangar — more when it's readywingmansix.com
Selected
Photography
Light, place, and the odd quiet thing. They play themselves — hover to pause, or step through.
Get in touch
Contact
For work, the club, the fields, or a photograph — the best route is email.