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- An exhibition to travel with
A couple of weeks ago while trying to find something for the weekend I came across Antony’s exhibition, yes from the Anthony and the Jonhsons at the Isis gallery:
“Antony’s artworks open up dream landscapes: often fragmentary in appearance, these images map his dreams and liminal states; polymorphic realms give way to indicated spirits; pen marks […]
- Digital Money
Money as a social and cultural driver is more and more a relevant subject this days.
About this matter an interesting workshop is going to happen in University of California, Irvine September 18 and 19, 2008 on the subject Everyday digital money:
Rather than replacing cash and coin, or arriving at one new general-purpose form of money, […]
- Paper sound prototype
Paper prototype, originally uploaded by dpereira.
This picture shows Madushani’s first protoype during a session of role playing. The paper tags serve has objects to be used on the circular area so to produce a sound specific to a tag and its position. Andy was testing the initial concepts by using the system and its rules. […]
- Back to the future: design your own revolution
Charles Leadbeater author of WE THINK writes in 2006 an end to end article about user lead innovation.
What is at stake here is something fundamental to the way we see innovation, design and creativity and the way we organise our economy around them. We are moving from an era of mass production to one of […]
- Nokia: a glimpse of the next episode
Nokia released a “study entitled ‘A Glimpse of the Next Episode‘, carried out by The Future Laboratory, interviewed trend-setting consumers from 17 countries about their digital behaviors and lifestyles signposting emerging entertainment trends. Combining views from industry leading figures with Nokia’s own research from its 900 million consumers around the world, Nokia has constructed a […]
- Closer to manufacture
A new step to make smoother the realization of digital products directly from the designers hands: “Fritzing is an open-source initiative to support designers and artists to take the step from physical prototyping to actual product.” In other words it will means going from fast prototyping with breadboard to the product PCB layout.
Fritzing Website
- Tea and biscuits will make a better design for all (part 2)
Liz Sanders gives a practical introduction on how Adaptive Path use participatory design in their projects. Here is part of the interview that focus on designing futures:
“The idea is to get key stakeholders to tell stories about the future. We give them lots of visual tools and materials to help them make up stories and […]
- Tea and biscuits will make a better design for all (part 1)
Suzette Keith is a researcher on Computer Science with a range of interests in the general area of ‘Inclusive Design’. She was present last 3rd December in Current Issues of Interaction Design module to talk about design for all, with emphasis on her project of designing a car driving system with the elder in mind.
The […]
- Kinetic energy camera
Aeolab is a design & technology consultancy specialising in electronics prototyping, interactive media and reactive spaces.
Aeolab designed and developed two working prototypes of electronic devices aimed at children and powered by harnessing user-generated kinetic energy. The camera prototype has no battery and no buttons - pictures are taken continuously while the hand crank is turned. […]
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