Sometimes the best interfaces are the simplest: take this touch screen interface for the NTT ICC (Tokyo) entitled Micro Presence by Kenji Kohiyama, masahiko Morita, Tatsuya Saito and Shuheu Wemler from Keio University. Having photographed insects at super-high resolution, the best way to engage visitors was to show the insects real size and allow anyone […]
Category Archives: 2d
ecographics
While struggling to illustrate complex environmental phenomena this weekend I stumbled upon this great life-cycle diagram by Mats Ottdal – a cover graphic for a Vector Pollution Library (something I would love to buy).
Also posted in energy, environment, visualization
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magical things
Goro Motai pointed me to the work of Camille Scherer, an interaction designer who has the most elegant vision for augmented reality I’ve ever seen. Instead of designing objects for machines to read, she imbues meaningful things with added information in a harmonious way – giving you the feeling that the things around you all […]
Also posted in animation, art, augmented reality
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code maker
Kaywa offers a QR code generator and a reader you can download to your cell phone so that you too can begin authoring and spectating in the internet of things.
Also posted in blogogracy, traceability
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tracking pills
By one estimate at least 15% of all drugs sold are counterfeit resulting in thousands of deaths. One reason Vardex Laser developed a technique to etch individual pills with 2-D bar codes in a process that takes “less than a millionth of a second” to mark a product in a process that is completely “clean […]
Also posted in futurecraft, possessed products, product design, supply chain, traceability
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shadow sign
The sign for the Gallery Hotel Art in Florence is very discrete – you can only see it at night, and it’s fashioned from small bits of bent wire, which when lit from above by a spotlight project shadows that reveal the hotel’s name on the stucco facade of the building.
Also posted in 3d, architecture, augmented reality, lighting
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generating flat-pack furniture
I’ve covered Kram/Weisshar‘s Breeding Tables before, and they’re now available for sale at Moroso. I was finally able to see them up close – including process documentation and parts splayed out – at the Pompidou center a couple of weeks ago. To recap, the tables are generated using a genetic algorithm; its parts are cut […]
Also posted in 3d, fabrication, furniture, livingbreathing, product design
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creative commons kiosk
Last week at the Fuori Salone the most memorable event was designersblock: held at a dilapidated public pool in Milan’s Tortona neighborhood, it featured booths by designers and collectives organized under the London-based design collaborative. One of the exhibitors was KithKin’s “Some Rights Reserved,” a kiosk offering creative commons-licensed digital wares at low low prices […]
Also posted in 3d, blogogracy, fabrication, futurecraft, marketing, open objects, product design, retail
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