Ever wish you could always stay up-to-date with the latest trends in fashion? Bags to Riches will rent you the latest purse – for $30-$300 – for a month, along with damage insurance, so you never have to commit to a single thousand-dollar bag – or worry about scuffs. If only fashion could be regularly […]
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pod docks
how far have we come? ipods are supposed to be the best design of today, yet they’re more plain than a walkman was twenty years ago. just look at the walkman docks of 1984: they were colorful, re-configurable and even transformer-like.
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webs of influence
I’ve been interested in depictions of the evolution of ideas and cultural movements since posting about Timothy Stotz’s amazingly complex evolutionary diagram of 500 years of art. Here are some other inspiring diagrams of evolution, culminating in the genealogy of Linux distribution, which is the clearest and most accurate because it’s built in to the […]
Posted in 2d, art, traceability, visualization
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edible utensils
we’ve seen edible cups, and now edible spoons made of bread by tim simpson. there’s something elegant about making everything that touches your mouth edible, and certainly it’s more sustainable than plastic spoons. but how long do they last?
Posted in fabrication, food, futurecraft, materials, soft/glowing
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form ignores function
yesterday at takashimaya in shinjuku i bought two things: can you guess what they are? they are shiny, plastic and white. i think they are even better designed than apple products: they reveal nothing about their function at all. below is naoto fukasawa’s humidifier sold through his brand +_0, whereas the apple above is just […]
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visualizing influence
timothy stotz has made a stunning diagram called ‘the flowering staircase‘ to depict the chains of influence in european art from 1435 to 1935. the single image (4 MB download) links well-known painters and sculptors who were in direct contact, collaborated, and influenced each other positively or negatively. while most evolutionary diagrams (aka cladograms or […]
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layered media
one of the best aspects of mashups are the way that collective intelligence can be leveraged to add meaning to web-based media. overstream is a web-based subtitle tool for youtube videos that allows anyone to contribute captions for existing videos. this has a lot of significance for the hearing impaired, as well as anyone who […]
Posted in augmented reality, blogogracy, open objects, universal design, visualization
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non-service
for a while now hotels have provided the option to opt out of fresh towels – but tonight i got to tokyo’s grand prince takanawa hotel, which has gone one step further: you can opt out of room cleaning altogether and you get an incentive in the form of $10 a day you can use […]
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