Interacting with Digital Beings in Public
With “interactive” campaigns now pervasive, this compilation of digital billboards noticed when the context is within populated public spaces. A British Airways display with a giant billboard child pointing at … Continue reading
Designing Visual Lingo
A belated link pack with short ruminations: As the saying goes, a picture can convey a thousand words. Static photos can communicate unexpected concepts like these genetic portraits. I’ve been drawn … Continue reading
Fabricating Ourselves
When 3D printing meets Kinect meets humans’ love for Polaroid portraits, we witness how Insta-selves could be a future common crowdpleaser. With custom software developed using openKinect and openFrameworks, Be Your Own Souvenir by … Continue reading
Tableau: Wanting Digital to Be Physical (and Rustically Hip)
Tableau is a nightstand that bridges the physical and digital. It drops photos it sees from its Twitter feed into its drawer for its owner. Similarly, images placed in its … Continue reading
Do Not Be Programmed
Two recent books You Are Not A Gadget and Program or Be Programmed raise a common call to action: we must not be complacent about who designs and how they design technology … Continue reading
Agreed: The World is Full of Interesting Things
For some inspiration,Tom Uglow has a compilation of creativity. 100 + examples of projects that pushed at evolving audio, visuals, physicality, and more. … Continue reading
iPad 3D Light Forms
The folks at BERG and Dentsu are exploring screening surfaces and playing with the popular ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit our world. They invented a new photographic/stop-animation technique for making media. … Continue reading
Globe Genie and Virtual Travel
Near the top of my wish list of devices that I want someone to invent soon is the human transport beam. As a taste of how awesome that could be, Globe … Continue reading
Punk’d Augmented
While hunting for a popsicle in Central Park this balmy Saturday, I encountered some bewildered tourists intrigued but confused by this . Ironically, it was part of a mobile interactive … Continue reading