This is an incomplete but growing list of individuals, companies, institutions, conferences, and agencies that inspire me.
Information is Beautiful
Giorgia Lupi
Mike Bostock
Amanda Cox
Nicholas Felton
Ben Fry
Jer Thorp
Stamen
MIT Senseable City Lab
Musée de l'Homme
L'Atelier des Lumières
Museum of Broken Relationships
American Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (Internships)
MCN
ECSITE
Game Developers Conference
FoST
Come Out & Play
Games for Change
Transmediale
MuseumNext
All Things Open
Punchdrunk
Third Rail Projects
Sleep No More
Say Something Bunny!
Then She Fell
Accomplice
A Spirited History of Drinking: The Musical Comedy
Drunk Shakespeare
The PIT
UCB
Batsu
LaMama
Potion
NY Times R&D Group
Google
Fantasy
Moment
Frog Design
IDEO
Blue Fountain
Lounge Lizard
Ruckus
Huge
Crafted
Code and Theory
Blenderbox
Big Spaceship
Designity
UsTwo
Dots
Playdead
Avalanche Studios
Defiant Studios
Zynga
Riot Games
Rockstar Games
iNK Stories
Playmatics
Experiment 7
Naughty Dog
Wizards of the Coast
TeamLab
Art + Com (Berlin)
TheGreenEyl
Blue Cadet
Cortina (Washington DC)
Science Gallery (International)
Thinc
Evidence Design
Galagher & Associates
Tangram
Ralph Appelbaum Associates
Tessallate
Local Projects
Rockwell Group
Esi Design