Finiliar with Ed Fornieles, Sam Spike, and Jake Allen

My guests today are Ed Fornieles, Sam Spike, and Jake Allen, three of the four cofounders of Finiliar. Finiliar is an NFT collection of cute 3D characters whose mood and animations are driven by price action of popular cryptocurrencies. Ed Fornieles created the project first as a gallery exhibited artwork, and it has since grown into a character brand and software company.

On this episode we discuss Ed’s career making fine art installation and sculptural work in London, Sam’s art production and curation work at Fingerprints DAO, and Jake’s experience as Head of Product at Cameo, the premium short form video platform. We discuss how their experiences informed their work on Finiliar, and why faces are both the past, and perhaps future, of interface design.

I really enjoyed this conversation with the Finiliar team. We covered a lot of material concerning the making of art. I hope you enjoy the show.

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Links:

Tulip Fever video (YouTube)

2018 era finis looked like this

Ed Fornieles’ Wikipedia

Sam worked on Sarah Friend’s Off: Endgame

Sam worked on Every Icon with John F Simon Jr

Sam worked on terra0's Seed Capital

Mint.fun’s Fundrop