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Knitting RSS feed data
2008-01-16 15:09:00
Created by Ebru Kurbak and Mahir M. Yavuz, News Knitter is a data visualization project which focuses on knitted garments as an alternative medium to visualize large scale data.News Knitter converts information gathered from the daily political news into clothing. Live news feed from the Internet that is broadcasted within 24 hours or a particular period is analyzed, filtered and converted into a unique visual pattern for a knitted sweater. The system consists of two different types of software: whereas one receives the content from live feeds the other converts it into visual patterns, and a fully computerized flat knitting machine produces the final output. Each product, sweater of News Knitter is an evidence/result of a specific day or period.New Knitter will be presented at the Seamless fashion show in Boston at this end of the month! In 2006, my team and I had presented at the Seamless fashion show, Taptap , the affectionate scarf!Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure...
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Playstation human sculptures
2008-01-16 02:52:00
Sculpture in perforated steel with sections upholstered in feltDesigners came up with a landscape of concept furniture derived from the statue-like forms of people sitting, standing or leaning against walls engaged in playing the PlayStation Portable (PSP). The result is "sculptural and machine-like". Each piece contains a PSP unit and users are encouraged to step inside these structures to play, the idea being to create an individual gaming experience while allowing for interaction with other gamers in other pieces using the PSP’s wi-fi capabilities.Inspired by gaming, after the Nintendo Wii, the Wii-fit is coming. Also check the new hypnotic video-ad for playstation!Posted by Cati Vaucelle ♥ Architectradure.......................... ...................
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Rapid manufactured textiles
2008-01-15 02:36:00
Macedonia Tray design by Janne Kyttanen, 2007.Following up on this thread about rapid prototyping and mass customized objects, Jiri Evenhuis came up with the concept of Rapid Manufactured textiles in 1999 opening new frontier of possibilities for the production of textiles in the future. The first commercial products were launched by FOC in 2005.City Hall, Amsterdam. Ramon Albers. 3D computer graphics enable designers and architects to envision very complex creations at ... the miniature scaleBy Architectradure
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Structural innovation
2008-01-14 20:16:00
Re-designing acoustic musical instrument according to the abilities and characteristics of rapid prototype materialsAfter laser printing on bread, one can print instruments! My friend Amit Zoran designed this really neat concept of an acoustic guitar sound box that has been given a unique sound and behavior through a CAD/CAM process. His research goal is to find and analyze a space for structural innovation, especially for acoustic instruments.His works enables players to customize their own sound by assembling different sound cells, e.g physical parts of the instruments designed in CAD/CAM, instead of considering the instrument as one big sound box. Each string can have its own bridge and each bridge can be linked to different cells. By changing a cell' size, material or structure, one can create customizable sounds.His innovative take mainly consists of printing, using a 3D printer, cells drawn into a vectorial software. These cells, made of 30cm radius, have a variety of materia...
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Mediated Social Serendipity: a new SMS system for taking care of your Faceb
2008-01-14 02:56:00
Mediated Social Serendipity is a report describing mobile-phone services and applications that enable users to “stumble into” friends despite being apart physically. It develops in four concept-categories for social serendipitous mobile-phone experiences.One of the most astonishing idea presented in the report is “Nudge”, a system that recognizes patterns of everyday life and detects if a user has not send news to a friend for a long time and acts on his/her behalf accordingly. For instance, Asa’s phone registers that she is far away from home. It gathers surrounding information and will generate a text message to a good friend of hers who she has not called in several months. The automated message would be:Hi! Right now I’m about 3142 kilometers south-west from where you are. Felicia, Per and I are walking along the beach in Tarifa, Spain. It’s 25°C and the sun shines. We hear seagulls and waves breaking. Speak to you soon! /AsaAs she walks down to the water to dip h...
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Gun Powder
2008-01-12 05:25:00
Space No.1 1988 - Tokyo, Japan by Cai Guo-Qiang. Materials: gunpowder, paper, light & glassThe Dragon Has Arrived! 1997 - Venice, Italy.Materials: Salvaged wood from sunken boat, Chinese flags, electric fan, lights

Is this a land made for you and me?
2008-01-11 17:05:00
Is this a land for you and me 1 by artist Paul Ramirez Jonas. Upon entering the exhibition space the public encounters short bases each supporting a hand bell. All the hand bells together form a song. Meaning, for each note in the melody, there is a hand bell. In fact, the bases are a blow up of the song's score, cup up so that each note is isolated. The only notes that remain grouped are the chorus. Members of the public are invited to take one bell/note, take it along, and ring it as they see the show. On their way out, they would place the bell back on its pedestal. The song is thus fractured and dispersed in the space. There is a slim chance that the public, either by chance or through cooperation, could perform the melody.
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Upcoming design competitions
2008-01-11 05:11:00
Samsonite Baby Travel Design CompetitionBaby-Travel.com invites designers, students & inventors worldwide to design a product relating to the world of traveling with babies, toddlers and their parents. Deadline 31st March 2008.Pdf. with detailsWorkstation Design Competition 2008You are invited to investigate the future design of the work environment! Deadline 30th June 2008.Greener Gadgets Design Competition. Designs should seek to minimize the environmental impact of consumer electronic devices at any stage in the product lifecycle. Deadline 27th January 2008.2008 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). IDEA is the premier international competition celebrating design excellence in products, ecodesign, interaction design, packaging, strategy, research and concepts. Winning entries receive press coverage in BusinessWeek magazine, businessweek.com and hundreds of other media outlets around the world. Deadline 29th February 2008.The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop. Want to create y...
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The subtle vibrations
2008-01-11 01:52:00
Duncan Wilson created Otto with Manolis Kelaidis at the Royal College of Art. OTTO (Greek for ‘ear’) is a device that makes hidden sounds audible. This is achieved via a thin polymer piezoelectric contact that senses weak vibrations and plays them as a sound through an integrated speaker. OTTO can be positioned on almost any surface through a combination of suction and magnets. By placing several units on different objects, one can select and create a new sonic experience and a form of ambient music appreciation, thereby utilising our space as a multidirectional audio platform.Every object and surface in our environment has a whisper; subtle tremors and vibrations that are usually undetectable to the human ear, produced by the activity and movement of daily life. What if these sounds were audible? How would that change our aural awareness, perception of space and attitude towards objects? Would it be possible to ‘compose’ our own soundtrack using our walls and objects as a n...
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Transformation
2008-01-09 04:13:00
Freeze by Akiko and Masako Takada. Picture from Champ Libre.The twin sisters Akiko and Masako Takada transform plastic packing into a urban landscape, gradually covered with white frost. The plastic objects were actually covered and crystallized by salted water. In other words, the scene captures the moment of natural transformation.
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Haaa typography ...
2008-01-08 02:54:00
Helvetica Bold, 36 point --1956-1957 by Edouard Hoffmann and Max Miedinger. Lead and wood tray, 1 7/8 x 10 5/8 x 24 3/4" (4.8 x 27 x 62.9 cm). A recent acquisition of the MoMA. Gift of Lars Müller and Stampa Didot, Switzerland.
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Breathing Spirulina
2008-01-06 22:20:00
There is this place in Paris, Flood -58 rue de Chateaudun et 1 rue Danielle Casanova- where one can eat air made of Spirulina. Created by Mathieu Lehanneur, an aquarium rests in the centre of each area containing over 100 litres of Spirulina Platensis, an algae I have been eating since my teenage years. By photosynthesis, these microalgae produce pure oxygen. A fresh, living material, rich in proteins and with a taste resembling tofu, next time I am in Paris, I will have to try this place!

Therapeutic objects
2008-01-06 22:02:00
Having researched and designed haptic devices to support psychotherapeutic treatments, I am fascinated by French designer :) Mathieu Lehanneur's work on therapeutic objects he conceived with psychiatric consultants: Bernard Lachaux, Patrick Lemoine and model makers: Alban Danguy des Deserts. These objects are part of the permanent collection of the MOMA, NYC.He proposes a series of objects not only as an attempt to bring design into the medical sphere, but essentially to design medications from the perspective of the patient and his/her illness relationship.His scenario envisions: the placebo effect, a participation of the patient in his/her treatment, making the medication a communicative and sensory object, debating on the mechanistic approach of modern pharmacology, playing on emotions of attraction, desire, fear and repulsion towards a device or a particular form using gestures, usage practices and rituals.Thera peutic felt-tip pen, 2001.This analgesic for chronic pain is a syst...
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Flying, swimming or shrinking car?
2007-12-30 14:56:00
Searching for a new car, I selected a few options: the flying, the auto nautical and the city car.The Skycar. Photo by Bruce CalkinsPaul Moller has been working on his Icarus dream, the Skycar M400. Thanks to its four rotating engine nacelles, the skycare takes off, lands vertically and makes short flights. Apparently this latest prototype should be ready by 2009."Its performance exceeds that of any light helicopter, including a top speed that is three times faster. When compared to a high-performance airplane, the Skycar has vertical takeoff and landing capability, is safer and potentially less expensive. The performance boundaries of the Skycar are much less restrictive than those of both helicopters and airplanes. These expanded operating limits are the natural consequence of combining VTOL and high-speed cruise in a single aircraft. The resulting flexibility allows many transportation applications to be addressed for the first time."The Aquada V6 175 ch, 160km/h on the road, 57k...
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Cultural Chicago advertisement!
2007-12-27 00:53:00
Icelandic Rift by new media artist Sabrina RaafCultural Chicago is a community site for the arts based in Chicago. The online journal offers the possibility for readers to contribute with local cultural news. Among other things, it advertises Chicago artists, exhibitions, art events and allows readers to create a local community by sharing similar interests through a forum, regular posts and bookmarks. I wish such a journal existed in Boston. Combining the sharing of local art events with informative interviews to a social network is kind of unique. Reading and subscribing to the journal, I discovered the spectacular work of Sabrina Raaf on creative machines capable of generating unique and unpredictable manifestations of art. In her interview by Cultural Chicago, Sabrina Raaf explains:"Technology (software and hardware) is not only a means or set of tools. It does also necessitate a type of logic-based thinking in order to use it and subvert it creatively. You really have to be a p...
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Algorithmic film assembly using toy gestures
2007-12-27 00:53:00
A child playing with Picture This and his Naruto action figureContinuing my research on perspective taking and tangible video editing, I recently finished the development of Picture This, a video editing and capturing device designed for young children. It allows them to craft compelling movies through the motion analysis of their interaction with toys. Children's favorite props alternate between characters and cameramen in a film. As children play with the toys to act out a story, they conduct algorithmic film assembly.Picture This's web site.In my prior work, Moving Pictures, I wanted to offer children the opportunity to gather imagery from their environment in the form of short video clips captured on video camera platforms modified for the application. I wanted to provide a transparent experience for the user, in which the cumbersome process of capturing and editing becomes fluid in the improvisation of a story and accessible as a way to create a final movie.Web site for my pa...
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A sponsored post of my favorite Japanese animes!
2007-12-26 23:44:00
AkiraAnime are usually perceived either for children, teenagers or pervert adults. In fact, a lot of them are really good: cinematographically inspiring, with rich character development and epics stories. Each of them is a wellspring of interaction design ideas for innovative products. I find them refreshing. From Akira, Ghost in the Shell, to Blood: The Last Vampire. I cannot wait to watch Karas! A few manga series maintain these high standards with similar qualities. It has been now a year that I started watching Bleach, a manga series written and illustrated by Tite Kubo. In Bleach, a high school student, Ichigo, has the ability to see ghosts and interact with shinigami or death God. I absolutely adore the soul society made of handsome and complicated post-human characters. The Quincy in Bleach.I watched Death Note, an anime written by Tsugumi Ohba. A high school student decides to rid the world of evil with the help of a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is wri...
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Algorithmic film assembly using toy gestures
2007-12-26 21:01:00
A child playing with Picture This and his Naruto action figureContinuing my research on perspective taking and tangible video editing, I recently finished the development of Picture This, a video editing and capturing device designed for young children. It allows them to craft compelling movies through the motion analysis of their interaction with toys. Children's favorite props alternate between characters and cameramen in a film. As children play with the toys to act out a story, they conduct algorithmic film assembly.Picture This's web site.In my prior work, Moving Pictures, I wanted to offer children the opportunity to gather imagery from their environment in the form of short video clips captured on video camera platforms modified for the application. I wanted to provide a transparent experience for the user, in which the cumbersome process of capturing and editing becomes fluid in the improvisation of a story and accessible as a way to create a final movie.Web site for my pa...
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I don't need a robot
2007-12-11 03:55:00
Illustration by Dean Morris Graphic Designer as part of the Humor Show (1987), I don't need a robot for ID magazine nowadays would have a different message and could demonstrate the beauty of Coronamatic Typewriters. A little nostalgic?
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Video scenarios of tech-enabled behaviors
2007-12-11 03:41:00
Mobility platform videos for Intel by Ideo.Visualizing high-tech's human-centered future by Ideo.Tapping into the growing broadband access around the world, Intel has innovated a series of chipsets and mobile platforms that enable smarter, more efficient laptops, mobile phones, and PDAs. While these offerings represent new possibilities for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), it's not uncommon for OEMs to need an added push to invest in unproven technology. To bring to life the potential of this technology, IDEO worked with Intel to visualize what user behaviors might be enabled by the offerings. The work, which culminated in the form of three videos, points to Intel's larger shift toward human-centered technology innovation.In looking at Intel's next-generation products, IDEO had a clear sense of the emphasis on mobility. From a design perspective, the offerings were each exciting, offering new ways for people to live and work, but lacked the cohesion of a system. To integ...
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Poetic chairs
2007-12-11 01:42:00
I stumbled upon Stuhlhockerbank by Yvonne Fehling and Jennie Peiz. For a public use of architecture merging chair and stool into seat elements, the life of the sitting place becomes engraved in the artist' sculpture. The chairs are discombobulated.
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Children's toys
2007-12-08 02:04:00
Toys always invite for reflection, but toys within the contemporary art context bring another dimension. I select these ones featured on Artnet. I also author another blog that reflects this passion of mine!Therapeutic children's toys by Renate Müller & Helene Haeusler, 1960.Materials: Canvas, leather, wearA 39cm high camel, a dice of 29.5 x 30 x 32 cm and an Hippopotamus of 35 x 75 x 34 cm.Detail Song of the Finsh (The Bride) Jigsaw Puzzle by Isabel Samaras. The stories of Monsters and the mystical lives they lead ...Benny and Red Bird Color Version by Kathy Olivas(...) Many of the toys show a meticulous care in their creation; they are mechanically functional and cleverly conceived to move, lift or turn. I consider them to be truly remarkable in their abilities to function as well as being aesthetically pleasing. The enormous creative potential inherent in each piece became a challenge that I could not resist. Initially the toys were seen as individual objects, as the series de...
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A special chandelier
2007-12-01 23:57:00
Back from the ICA with Adam, I was struck by the work designer Tobias Wong a provocateur who creates the unexpected from the everyday and the everyday from the unexpected as he was being introduced during the exhibition, but I also think it is more than. What is so special about such art and craft work is to feel inspired in experiencing the work.The object is special. It takes a refined sensitivity from the artist to make the careful design decisions exhibited by this piece. In the black shade chandelier, a classical design is made new by a switch between the form of the candelabra and the candle. These are two different objects, two different materials that create a single form in glass and insist on the simple mechanism of an oil lamp. These subtleties are the decisions that I love in this work.In the exhibition was also presented the Disposable Crystal Cup, a sixteen-ounce paper cup printed with a trompe l’oeil crystal pattern. In this piece I felt Tobias Wong took the epidemi...
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Transitional objects
2007-11-28 03:23:00
Filet From the series Hommage au Sol - accesoires de prolongement du corps, objets transitionels de perception1989-1994Marie-Claire Bevar works with textiles, transforms them, adds all kinds of other materials to them, turns them into objects which has been her passion and necessity since childhood.After collaborating both in trade and in theater, she decided to create objects as part of a personal introspection expressing itself through propositions evolving around the theme of the body. Both in Hommage au Sol and in L'Avant-Bras, Le Lien, Le Trait d'Union on one side and in Artextilabo, a laboratory of experimentations.DoréHommage au Sol focuses around the foot and its relation to the ground. It includes accessories extending the body, transitory objects of perception, photos, videos and written documentation.VeniseL'Avant-Bras, Le Lien, Le Trait d'Union is a work in progress. First she experimented with materials and techniques proper to the theme. A first series of objects ...
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The mix tape business
2007-11-27 02:22:00
A come back for the mix tape business. After the tape with style we have the regular tape packaging that hides a usb key. My favorite part is the usb mix tape's advertisement: Stores up to 1 hour of high quality digital music - the same amount as you get on a C60 cassette tape. Perfect for creating your own unique compilation or mix ‘tape’. When you have 60 minutes you have to think carefully about what you are going to put on there!Is the idea that by constraining the potential of a product, users will carefully consider the potential being given? This is a bit sad. Or is the idea that this product is super conceptual and needs to offer the same amount of 60 minutes of music that is usual in C60 cassette tapes? In that case there is a nostalgic connection, but no innovation. At the end I like the metaphor effort in it, but I prefer the possibility to uniquely tailor my tape with style. The tailoring of the tape could take advantage of online digital art communities such as Ope...
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Bio Battery Powered By Sugar
2007-11-26 09:38:00
4 prototype bio battery units connected to Walkman for playbackFollowing up on my previous post kinetic vs electric toys by Sony, Sony also developed a bio battery prototype that generates electricity from sugar, similar to the method used in living organisms. Sugar is a naturally occurring energy source produced by plants through photosynthesis. It is therefore regenerative, and can be found in most areas of the earth, underlining the potential for sugar-based bio batteries as an ecologically-friendly energy device of the future.As humans breakdown food for energy, the battery would generate electricity by breaking down carbohydrates or sugars through the use of enzymes. Since sugar is a natural energy source, the bio battery would be an environmentally friendly choice as it would dramatically reduce disposal issues with disposable batteries used today. Test cells have generated up to 50 milliwatts, which is the highest for a bio battery of this type according to Sony. Currently, i...
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Birthday invasion
2007-11-26 09:28:00
Today it is my birthday's invasion!
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A portent of human augmentation
2007-11-24 08:00:00
Greasy Spoon, 2007 by Brian WalkerIn our cyborg world, I think it would be nice if prosthesis could mean expanding human skills or on a contrary re-creating fragile and powerless human sculptures.Examples of prosthesesResearchers explored the ability of the skin to acquire and process information rivaling our senses of sight and hearing. The e-skin lab researches on tactile interfaces consisting both of sensors and actuators: wearable artificial skins as a navigation aid in space.The Rheo Knee made by Ossur adapts to an individual's walking style by detecting 1,000 times every second the knee's position and the load applied to the limb. The user gets the proper amount of resistance for every step.Via wiredVicthom's urinary implant, a catheter-free, fully implanted pacemaker for the bladder. If trials go well, it could help 800 million people worldwide with bladder dysfunctions caused by spinal cord injury.Durom™ Hip Resurfacing a joint replacement system that offers "freedom" o...
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An intelligent bar of soap!
2007-11-24 07:16:00
The Bar of Soap , created by Michael Bove, Stacie Slotnick and Brandon Taylor at the MIT Media Laboratory, is a handheld device that recognizes how it is being held and adjusts its functionality accordingly. For instance if you want to make a phone call, just hold the bar of soap like a phone!The device senses the pattern of touch and orientation when it is held, and reconfigures to become one of a variety of devices, such as phone, camera, remote control, PDA, or game machine. Pattern-recognition techniques allow the device to infer the user's intention based on grasp. We are now adding display surfaces across the entire device so that buttons and indicators can be created where needed for a particular mode.
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Toy or not toy exhibit
2007-11-22 07:07:00
An exhibition I should not have missed! Thankfully Etienne Mineur reported on it wonderfully: Toy Comix, an exhibition at the musée des Arts décoratifs.
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