Hi, I’m a London/Norwich based designer. My work uncovers the meaning in the absurd. I investigate the fun tangible responses we could take to issues surrounding data collection, animal conservation, politics and food, materialising these ideas through print, film, 3D and written mediums.

1. Mash on a plate
   
2. The dippy egg zine
   
3. Collecting the Data-day
   
4. Dexter Sharp
   
5. Eel-ectric avenues 
   
6. Notes app zine
   
7. The Meta swamp
   
8. Animal language models
9. The London creative
   

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Animal Language Models 2025Erin Botha, Billy Hall, Snorre Havik, Daniel Sinclair
AI keeps trying to be more human, why can't it be more animal? And how can it be used to facilitate the communication between zoo and wild animals? By studying and visualizing individual animals’ ‘language’ - gestures, scents, and visual signals - AI can map the mechanisms of animal communication. Much like how LLM can be visualised as a shape outlining an irregular shaped galaxy of points, each representing a word, ALM’s (DBU) map animal language and allow comparison in ‘vocabulary’.

When this data overlaps, new insights emerge. AI can help us understand how animals develop ‘cultures’ in different environments, being the zoo and their natural habitat. By analysing the geometric spaces between associated words or the shifted positions of words we are able to better understand how the animals view the artificial environment around them and gives us opportunities for change.