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Animating the city
2008-02-13 04:00:00 GlisseNicolas Lelièvre experiences images, spaces and sounds. He created this movie with dancer Jean-Baptiste André as a focus on the "overinvestment" of urban space. Characters in the movie become puppets with urban objects pseudo-animated. Music by Mils.Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ................... More About: City
People and Prototypes
2008-02-13 03:06:00 Paper prototyping—in very early, sketch-based prototypes like these, designers can still simulate the user experience (note the use of the smaller post-it to represent a pull-down menu), but ineffective solutions can simply be placed in the recycling bin. Designing interactions is regularly offering chapters to download. Right now one of my favorite chapter, People and Prototypes, is up!Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ...................
Dress-0-tronic
2008-02-10 04:30:00 Photos by Marius Whansen for Qvest. Design by Moritz WaldermeyerPosted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ................... More About: Dress
Design police
2008-02-09 03:00:00 The design police said it all, it brings bad design to justice! It provides a visual enforcement kit with template buttons to cut and past on your blogs ...Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ................... More About: Design , Police
Arabesque
2008-02-08 04:20:00 An upcoming graphic design book that I want! Arabesque, Graphic Design from the Arab World and Persia by Ben Wittner, Sascha Thoma, Nicolas Bourquin.Despite their rich tradition of calligraphy, the Arab World and Persia are not known for their contemporary graphic design, illustration and typography. Young designers are just beginning to chart their own compelling course between local visual convention and a modern, international style.The book Arabesque investigates the creative potential of the Arab World and Iran. This book features examples of recent innovative and groundbreaking design work that is inspired by the richness of the region’s visual culture.Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ...................
Mutsugoto
2008-02-07 05:29:00 Mutsugoto is an interactive installation that invites couples to experience an intimate communication over a distance created by Tomoko Hayashi, Stefan Agamanolis and Matthew Karau. Begin by laying on the bed and wearing the special ring. As you relax and think about your partner, gently move your hand around your body. These movements are traced on your own body as well as your partner laying in the other bed. Twinkling spots give a hint of where your partner is drawing. If you follow your partner’s movements and your strokes cross, the lines will react with each other and reflect your synchrony.Don't forget to check the beautiful video of Mutsugoto. This is the first time I've seen ambient remote communication being that beautifully achieved and that sensual.In 2003 Tomoko Hayashi created Intimacy is a series of accessories for people who exist in a long-distance relationship. The accessories are a combination of ties or undergarments with jewelry such as necklace or ring. E...
Digital carpet
2008-02-07 04:29:00 This December, ENESS stopped the public in their gift grabbing tracks with an alternative celebration of light at Melbourne’s QV square. A digital carpet took over the square after dark and compel interactive connectivity between friends and strangers. Abstract messages and images that overlay the surface responded to activity and the public was responsible for designing the space with colorful particles of light as they play through the square. Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ................... More About: Digital , Carpet
iPhone case
2008-02-07 03:26:00 Nice skin for my iPhone!Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ................... More About: Iphone , Case
Vein Viewer
2008-02-07 01:35:00 The Vein Viewer by Luminetx™ uses a combination of near-infrared light and patented technologies to image vascular structures, thus allowing physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals to clearly see accessible vasculature (or lack thereof) in real time, directly on the surface of the skin. The near-IR camera located the subcutaneous veins and project their location onto the surface of the skin.This technology reminds me of the device used to visualize inside a baby in the e-baby's video. Screenshot of the e-baby video - 2003Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ...................
Painting on real objects
2008-02-07 01:17:00 Deepak Bandyopadhyay, Ramesh Raskar, Henry Fuchs have built a prototype system for virtual painting on real movable objects. A project from 2001 that should by now be easier to democratize!Imagine a world where all the objects around you can be animated and augmented interactively in real time; where you can, for instance, paint virtual designs on objects in the environment, which then stay in place as you modify or move them around! This opens up new possibilities for interaction in augmented environments, and gives rise to new applications in tele-immersion, medicine, architecture, art and user interfaces. Check also Kimiko Ryokai's digital paintbrush. Her brush allows artists to draw digitally with an "ink" they just picked up from their immediate environment.Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ................... More About: Painting , Real , Objects
Intense things happening in World of Warcraft
2008-02-06 03:35:00 Ok some intense things are happening in the virtual world. As if controlling a level 70 character was not enough trouble, these guys (and girls) control *five* 70 characters at the same time in 5 boxing setups on their own. An example:I am speechless, all that stuff said about my little virtual identity expressed through physical means is a piece of coconut compared to the mental strength required to visually maintain and control 5 avatars running quests and killing bosses at the same time.So if someone is up for running a 25 men dungeon on his own, there is still this possibility:This raises interesting questions for the future of human computer interaction, because Blizzard allows you to run multiple copies of WoW on the same computer, we need special joysticks, probably new interfaces for elbows to control 2nd class characters, the feet to control the mages (they are our DPS after all they need sone action), and of course I would leave the hands for the tank warriors. Some speech... More About: World , Warcraft , Things , World of Warcraft
Social Resonance: Balancing Reputation with Tangible Design
2008-02-06 02:03:00 Online data about our everyday activities is available for almost anybody who takes the time to spy on us. Everything that makes us live in the real world through emails, video, photo, blogs, online shopping, calendar, to name a few, is "trackable". We are entirely public, our virtual identity is somewhat the shadow of our physical existence. Not talking about avatars up to anonymous content that gives us a second life on the screen, but wouldn't that be scary to have our anonymous virtual self reflected back to us?The research of Alyssa Wright at MIT's Ambient Intelligence research group directed by Pattie Maes consists of the ongoing design of a tangible reputation system, Social Resonance, that uses a wearable device to merge face-to-face interaction with online networking. I love her attempt to bridge a virtual identity with a "real world" one. New forms of tangible systems can be designed to leverage the strengths, and bridge the discrepancies, of reputation systems. Like its... More About: Design , Reputation
Insect telepresence
2008-02-05 02:36:00 Suppose we can make a miniature camera whose motion can be controlled by a human. Put this camera in a colony of insects, and the human will gain a whole new perspective on the insects and their biology. Blow up the image to scale down the human appropriately, and amplify the insects sounds as well, and you have a complete telepresent experience that is incredibly exciting and educational at the same time. Technically, camera technology, optics and manipulation are well up to the task. A complete insect telepresence exhibit is now being constructed for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's entrance, in collaboration with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, by Stacy All, Angela Demke and Ben Shamah at the Toy Robot Initiative.Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ...................
DIY music box
2008-02-05 02:35:00 Traditional musical boxes normally have a single tune (unless you have an advanced version with different cylinders). But in this case, the music box, which is hand cranked, has a strip of paper that passes through it, and the little holes in this strip determine the tune. The Music Box comes with one strip of paper already punched with the tune 'Brahms Lullaby'. There are then 2 blank strips of paper and a hole punch, which will allow you to create tunes of your own! It makes for a fun and interactive way to learn and create music. The Music Box has a two octave range, and can play chords, not just single notes. Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ...................
Finally I got an iPhone
2008-02-04 01:48:00 This week end I bought an iPhone. I never bought a phone so far, I wanted to feel I could still be lost. As mentioned in an interview for neo-nomad, I did not own/use/carry a cell phone. I was exclusively on Trillian and Skype. It started becoming an handicap, friends want to organize things, my research group needs to reach me in a blink, I felt too unreachable!I am still working on the design of my own gear. Well, yesterday I tested the Apple Macbook air, it feels like two sheets of paper maintains the all thing together. Too fragile. Very light. The design is too beautiful to be touched, held, hugged and smashed. When design becomes a constraint, it kind of misses the point. After all, materials are socially constructed through a sensory education and tools.The iPhone, on the other end, looks beautiful and sturdy. The only inconvenient is its shiny screen that easily becomes a repository for oily molecules. Other than that, it is traveling in a brown sock in my bag. What better c... More About: Iphone , Finally
Coded silverware
2008-02-01 01:13:00 Organizing plane tickets, barcode, highway lines in term of their coded visualization, Rodolphe Dogniaux presents the visual common coded points between these objects. He proposes that if a weave pattern can be a structural element of a function, then he can use it to conceive objects. He starts by playing with a leather sofa under the principle of weave pattern. He ends up with two weave coded sofa!He applies this principle on silverware and thinks in term of geometrical zone rather than geometrical weave. He creates “couverts zonés codés” Coded zoned silverwarePosted by Cati Vaucelle♥ Architectradure.......................... ...................
Twirl the reactive skirt
2008-01-31 22:55:00 Twirl, created by Megan Galbraith, is a dynamic and reactive skirt that is controlled using a fuzzy logic reasoning algorithm, and programmed with a fuzzy logic controller, dixit Megan. This skirt has a bend sensor embedded along the seam of the back side, and it thus detects when the wearer is standing up straight, sitting down, or bending over. The sprinning flourishes alter their behavior based on the posture of the wearer.Posted by Cati Vaucelle♥ Architectradure.......................... ................... More About: Skirt
Talking with owls using mobile phones
2008-01-30 21:01:00 This project explores technologies to augment our understanding of bird populations in order to allow these populations to speak to us about their habitat. In particular, in a collaboration between the MIT Media Laboratory and Maine Audubon, the researchers use cellular technology to augment the process by which volunteers collect information for an annual owl survey in Maine.The core methodology was developed in a regional pilot census of Connecticut's owl population demonstrating that the audio quality of cell phones is sufficient for the discovery and interaction with owls.In Maine, they plan to deploy cell nodes for calling and recording owls, and provide an interface for the public to vicariously participate in the census from the internet. They hope to gain insight into the social networking processes of collaborative interpretation and annotation of a shared database; and knowledge representation for the bird-census domain.The cellular-based survey may also provide insights ... More About: Mobile , Mobile Phones , Phones , Talking
Zone of emergency - Networks, Tactics, Breakdown
2008-01-30 05:25:00 Amber Frid-Jimenez is teaching a class at the MIT Visual Arts Department this spring on Introduction to Online Participatory Media: Zone of emergency - Networks , Tactics , Breakdown (4.366/4.381). The course is equal parts theory, art, technology and play, exploring the wild archive of the web. The class combines an overview of the historical "art for all" approach of early net-art and tactical media with an experimental take on the popular social web today.Time Mondays 7 – 10pm and Wednesdays 9:30am – 12:30pmLocation N51-315 IELThe course introduces an overview of web-based platforms as means through which to explore the cultural, social, political, and economic impact of mediated communication. Hands-on design exercises and experiments are continually framed and examined by critical reflection and discussions. An overview of historical "art for all" and participatory art practices, of early net-art and current public art practices will show how digital communication and culture... More About: Emergency
Graphic new theme for iGoogle
2008-01-29 04:47:00 After Boing Boing's Adventure in Lollipopland theme for iGoogle, John Maeda just released a graphic theme. John Maeda offers a series of online gadgets, e.g. a calculator, a clock, an elegant interactive display of his Ten Laws of Simplicity. More recently he launched a new theme on iGoogle. The theme changes based upon the time of day (every 4 hours), and is based upon a series of strokes he drew by hand and a simple algorithmic manipulation thereof. Enjoy!Posted by Cati Vaucelle♥ Architectradure.......................... ................... More About: Theme , Graphic
Designing the future
2008-01-29 00:09:00 Food for Thought: typography and food reunited. "Holidays are always a time to gather around the dining table with family and friends to share good food and stories about times gone by. Now family favorites--whether text or images--can actually appear on the fruit, nuts, and vegetables being served with the help of a laser sign cutter. Since the process takes only five minutes per edible, the food messages can be extremely timely."Before 3D printing musical instruments or computer etching on bread, David Small had thought of printing on fruits, a way to catch the attention of Martha Stewart. This is the story that today Dr David Small told us during a talk at our lab. Awesome speaker and visionary designer, he presented his twenty-year history of inventing the future of visual design. From the beginning, as a student of Muriel Cooper in the Visible Language Workshop, he has maintained a strong interest in understanding how technology is changing the way that information can be desig... More About: Designing , Future , The Future , Signing
Wearable vs furniture radiator
2008-01-28 14:33:00 Another interesting design concept, the modulo radiator by Anna Gotha, discovered on Kontrastblog. Anna Gotha wanted to make more use of the heat from a radiator by designing a radiator with multiple functions. The modules are designed with an upholstered aluminium core to use the installed radiator parts as a piece of furniture to lean up against. The core is warmed up by the radiator to be used outdoor. Apparently the radiator is made of multiple parts that can work independently from one another or connected to each others. Heating parts can be hanged on a wall, carried in a purse, or used more traditionally as a "furniture" that heats a large surface. Existing radiators take up too much room and the design is often rather conservative. With the new radiator, Anna Gotha has made use of the heat, and at the same time given the user a more functional and simple design.Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ................... More About: Radiator , Furniture
Web trend map 2008
2008-01-26 01:24:00 I loved the web trend map of 2007 by Information Architects Japan. Here it is, the 2008 's version as an interactive web trend map and/or A0 size printable poster for your office as presented by Swissmiss. The map includes almost 300 of the most influential and successful websites and pinned them down to the greater Tokyo-area train map. Enjoy!Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ................... More About: Trend
RSS feed what is in my pocket!
2008-01-25 04:13:00 Burak Arikan just released his latest creation my pocket commissioned and announced by Turbulence."MYPOCKET discloses the artist's personal financial records to the world by exploring and revealing essential patterns in the daily transactions of his bank account. These are the records that we usually keep secret, whereas financial institutions intensively analyze them to score our credibility. Archived on the site, the artist's two years of spending history is analyzed by the custom software to predict future spending; these predictions sometimes determine his future choices, creating a system in which both the software and the artist adapt to one another. Influenced by today's techno-cultural milieu, MYPOCKET presents a hybrid interface to a living physical/digital process." Woaaaaa I cannot wait to know what Burak is spending these days away from the media lab! The software does object prediction -ATM, groceries, rent, Fauchon, Les Galeries Lafayette, and so on. The objects are... More About: Feed , Pocket
Hugging my furniture
2008-01-24 17:01:00 A landscape designed for the body. These livingstones, "les coussins galets" created by French designer Stephanie Marin, remind me of Ernesto Neto's work. I love these. I can now embrace my furniture, discover the spaces inside, around and between my body! Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ................... More About: Furniture , Hugging
A button to learn electronics
2008-01-24 03:48:00 If electronics for dummies does not work for you, there is a button that teaches you electronics. The Digg button works as a beginner electronics that teaches how to solder and program microcontroller. The link with Digg is that each time you push the button, the button flashes "Dug" and increments the counter up to 999 "diggs". The Digg kit was created by Phillip Torrone from Makezine, Kevin Rose from Digg and Limor Fried aka Ladyada from the MIT Media Lab.The project is open source, and documented with parts list, schematics and code available. NB: For every sale of the Digg button kit the designers are giving $1 to the EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation. Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ................... More About: Electronics , Button , Learn
Useful inventions
2008-01-24 02:31:00 By graphic artist David Aja.Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ................... More About: Inventions
Tell me a story about computers ...
2008-01-23 04:37:00 These pictures are part of an awesome book Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers by by John Alderman.Today with my three fellows from the media lab - Nan Wei, Amit and Seth - I just passed my final physics 123 exam at Harvard University. I am now qualified to connect the world of analog electronics to the digital one using... a beautifully vintage 8051!!! If you want an easiest way to make things talk, Tom Igoe's book might be the way to go!Don't forget to check the computer history museum and the post by 37signals showing outstanding computer pictures. We never get enough of seeing all their buttons and the magic of their mechanics. Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ................... More About: Story
Pictograms
2008-01-22 18:25:00 Screenshot from the symbol serie buildingI love pictograms. IIT Bombay offers graphic icons for signage systems to be used for your design works in .eps format: Hospitals, Railway/Bus stations and Public building environments. Enjoy!Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ...................
Human sculptures
More articles from this author:2008-01-22 18:10:00 The gigantic modern bronze figures of taiwanese sculptor Ju Ming are inspired by the ancient Chinese martial art of tai chi chuan. His sculpted bodies in action remind me of the playstation statue-like forms of people playing with playstation. Our next step is to create 3d sculptures of people playing second life and exhibit them in second life!Thank you Nan Wei for introducing me to the work of Ju Ming!Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ................... More About: Human , Sculptures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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