Nov. 5, 2011 at 4:34pm with 4 notes
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Site specific artwork has always generated interest because of its ability to cause people to reconsider their preconceived notions about their surroundings. Mobile devices, augmented reality and proximal notifications are the new tools available to artists, enabling them to create playful experiences within virtual space that audiences can only view when they visit specific places.
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Collaboration, Content And Communication: New Tools For The Creative Class:

“We’re excited to see this technologically driven medium evolve as more people experiment with available tools and continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible across the digital-physical spectrum. Recent exhibitions at the Whitney, “Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools,” the MoMA, “Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects,” Copenhagen’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, “David Hockney: Me Draw on iPad” and New York City’s Pace Gallery, “Social Media,” further confirm the growing fascination with this subject matter and the variety of ways that artists and designers are incorporating new hardware and software from smartphones, tablets and a growing library of mobile applications into their work.”

via PSFK

Sep. 6, 2011 at 5:16am with 8 notes
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MoMA curator, Paola Antonelli does it again: ‘ 21st-century culture is centered on interaction: “I communicate, therefore I am” is the defining affirmation of contemporary existence, and objects and systems that were once charged only with formal elegance and functional soundness are now also expected to have personalities… Talk to Me explores this new terrain, featuring a variety of designs that enhance communicative possibilities and embody a new balance between technology and people.’ via MoMA and PSFK

MoMA curator, Paola Antonelli does it again:

‘ 21st-century culture is centered on interaction: “I communicate, therefore I am” is the defining affirmation of contemporary existence, and objects and systems that were once charged only with formal elegance and functional soundness are now also expected to have personalities… Talk to Me explores this new terrain, featuring a variety of designs that enhance communicative possibilities and embody a new balance between technology and people.’

via MoMA and PSFK

Sep. 1, 2011 at 4:19am with 5 notes
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Slides taken from Helge Tennø’s blog, 180/360/720, which elaborates on the changing landscape of branding and how users experience brands. Helge is currently a Planner at Scandinavian Design Group in Oslo, Norway.

Check out the full presentation here…

via 180/360/720

Aug. 15, 2011 at 2:30am with 10 notes
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McLuhan’s big idea was to spot that the word “medium” has distinctly different meanings. The conventional one is that a medium is a channel for communicating information – which is why much discussion about media up to his time focused on the content that was being conveyed by print, radio and television. But there is another, equally significant, interpretation. To a biologist, a medium is an environment containing the nutrients in which tissue cultures – organisms – grow. Change the medium and you change the organisms. Our communications media likewise constitute the environment which sustains, nurtures – or constrains – our culture. And if the medium changes, then so does the culture. The medium is far more than the message, in other words. In fact, it’s all we’ve got.
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Controversial words from Marshall Mcluhan, considering our (some say unhealthy) preoccupation with digital technologies, but even Mcluhan doesn’t suggest that the medium is the message…

Thanks, Marshall, I think we’ve finally got the message…

via The Observer

Apr. 2, 2011 at 6:22pm
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Is it time to think about type? Nokia sure thinks so as it launches a new typeface ‘Nokia Pure’ as a significant part of its brand communication. via Influxinsights

Is it time to think about type? Nokia sure thinks so as it launches a new typeface ‘Nokia Pure’ as a significant part of its brand communication.

via Influxinsights

Jan. 23, 2011 at 2:30am with 1 note
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PSFK SALON DETROIT Speaker Interview: Sheryl Connelly, Head of Trend Forecasting At Ford is tracking the “information addiction” social trend and how it feeds into the driving experience - features like Sync and My Ford Touch allow drivers to safely and easily connect to people, media and information. via PSFK

PSFK SALON DETROIT Speaker Interview: Sheryl Connelly, Head of Trend Forecasting At Ford is tracking the “information addiction” social trend and how it feeds into the driving experience - features like Sync and My Ford Touch allow drivers to safely and easily connect to people, media and information.

via PSFK

Jan. 18, 2011 at 1:18pm with 1 note
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Future of Mobile Tagging report downloadable from PSFK highlights the rise of mobile tagging in telling stories and conveying “behing the scenes” information to consumers… via PSFK… And here…

Future of Mobile Tagging report downloadable from PSFK highlights the rise of mobile tagging in telling stories and conveying “behing the scenes” information to consumers…

via PSFK…

And here…