Oct. 7, 2012 at 4:25pm with 2 notes
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Beautiful pieces; pity about the table legs…

‘Six Tables on Water’, is an exhibition by Italian designer Gaetano Pesce at David Gill Gallery in London, each piece conjuring the surface, depth and density of six expanses of water - oceans, lagoons, rivers, lakes, ponds and puddles.

‘my materials are liquid,’ he says, ‘and fit with the nature of our time. to me beauty means being unique, to be different, –
I like beauty full of mistakes because we are human. perfection is for machines, it is obsolete, gone.’

via designboom

[Fun fact: Gaetano Pesce is a collaborator of Melissa Shoes]

4:08pm with 2 notes
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I think sound is very important as we move forward with new communication technologies. We learned this when we developed our telepresence systems—any delay in sound makes the experience unbelievable. If you can’t interrupt in real time, or sing together, it’s not a real enough experience. So I’d love to see designers and architects keep sound quality, video quality in mind as they integrate communications tech in new cities, and think of the urban environments they design as a work of art—in other words, a wonderful human experience.
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Cisco Says Cities Will Be ‘Smarter’ Than Us - Reena Jana of frog shares a recent conversation she had with one of the top minds at the multi-national tech company Cisco Systems: Wim Elfrink, the first Chief Globalisation Officer to be appointed at software giant Cisco. 

via PSFK

4:02pm
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We must remember that great cities have souls. Think of what they are known for: Paris, for art. New Orleans, for music. San Francisco, for high tech. What is so promising about social networking is that in the future, we’ll be able to connect more people with each other around these aspects of cities while we are in them—or away from them. Finally, we should consider that the future of competition is between cities, whereas it used to be between nations. Many people today identify themselves as what city they are from, versus what country. If cities do not work to become smarter, in all aspects of the word, they will lose the competition for visitors, industries, and revenues.
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Cisco Says Cities Will Be ‘Smarter’ Than Us - Reena Jana of frog shares a recent conversation she had with one of the top minds at the multi-national tech company Cisco Systems: Wim Elfrink, the first Chief Globalisation Officer to be appointed at software giant Cisco. 

via PSFK

Jul. 15, 2012 at 4:29am with 2 notes
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Clever 4-faces-in-one watch or a bit redundant? And you have to charge it up? As we read recently about the direction design is going (from a design website or blog) - Design is becoming, and needs to be, more useful than engaging. We think it needs to be both. Watch Face Changes Design When Touched via PSFK

Clever 4-faces-in-one watch or a bit redundant? And you have to charge it up? As we read recently about the direction design is going (from a design website or blog) - Design is becoming, and needs to be, more useful than engaging. We think it needs to be both.

Watch Face Changes Design When Touched

via PSFK

Jun. 21, 2012 at 4:22pm with 2 notes
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Interesting development - Aston Martin Designs Limited Edition ‘Superbikes’. If it works as it should, this bike is the perfect marriage between sports technology and craftsmanship.

“In a collaboration with bike company Factor Bikes, Aston Martin has designed a limited edition ‘superbike’ called the ‘One-77 Cycle’—that has been given the same name as the sports car maker’s most advance car model, the ‘One-77’.”

via DesignTAXI.com

May. 15, 2012 at 11:47am
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The space is a raw material.
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Creativity is valuable novelty…
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“The Structure of the Space rewards playng with it…”

Clay Shirky on what he has learned about creativity from his ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program) students, at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

via PSFK

Feb. 1, 2012 at 9:18am with 20 notes
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We live in the App Age and are entering new territory. The sexy math behind voice or facial recognition, real time translation, or even just assembly of a playlist of music, is no longer the realm of super computers or even desktops. Smart phones will run algorithms, and the data to feed them will also be more fluidly available. Forget Global Warming models: Consumers will pay good money for an algorithm that gathers data and solves everyday problems.
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frog’s Senior Principal Design Technologist, Jared Ficklin talk about The Age of the Algorithm.

via frog’s 2012 Technology Trend Predictions on design mind and PSFK

9:17am
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Poignant quote from”gadget blogger” Gizmodo, from the floor of CES (the annual Consumer Electronics Show of the CEA), illustrated by Oscar Ramos Orozco. via Need-To-Know on The 99 Percent and The Technium: Kevin Kelly

Poignant quote from”gadget blogger” Gizmodo, from the floor of CES (the annual Consumer Electronics Show of the CEA), illustrated by Oscar Ramos Orozco.

via Need-To-Know on The 99 Percent and The Technium: Kevin Kelly

9:16am with 1 note
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A slow start to 2012 and a step back from blogging: getting caught up in the rat-race and the connectedness of our world... a sick-day allows me to observe and digest a growing trend: what does being hooked up to the mainframe mean to us and our reality, and what are some observers saying about how we deal with it? I had a conversation with a design-collegue about his 3 year-old nephew’s prowess in iPad problem-solving games… he noticed that children are not actually nurturing problem-fixing skills but algorithm-solving observation, where they find patterns in the games that they recognise to follow or beat it - this means that children might end up being lost if they have to start from scratch (no pre-existing pattern?!), to create, invent or fix something that sets new rules or isn’t based on pre-existing parameters: this is what entrepreneurship and game-changing design/business is all about. A design workshop with a group of 18 year-olds last year in Singapore posed the same problem: when asked to imagine and envision “The Industrial Park of the Future”, they found it hard to free themselves from in-expertise, and the uncertainty of what “the future” held, playing it safe and basing ideas on precedent. While research and general knowledge (now so readily available on the inter-web) was strong amongst participants, and gives foundation to concepts, most of the resulting masterplans seemed a bit similar, while 1 out of the 10 groups decided to throw out the competition rule-book and suggested a programme to create a forest-reserve on the site now, with the reasoning that in 50-100 years time, we’ll need all the help (as raw material, environmentally and psychologically) from nature that we can get - a bold suggestion for an industrial park. What does this mean in the age of the geek, and do the ones rejecting our connectedness to the rest of the world doing enough to find balance? The surrounding posts deal with this - below is a link chock-ed full of Technology Trends and coming up is a snippet from an article by Pico Iyer of The New York Times’ Sunday Review (Thanks Kennel) telling us that the most connected + media-savvy of us are feeling the need for balance and prioritization in their lives. Image via frog: Technology Trends For 2012 on PSFK

A slow start to 2012 and a step back from blogging: getting caught up in the rat-race and the connectedness of our world... a sick-day allows me to observe and digest a growing trend: what does being hooked up to the mainframe mean to us and our reality, and what are some observers saying about how we deal with it?

I had a conversation with a design-collegue about his 3 year-old nephew’s prowess in iPad problem-solving games… he noticed that children are not actually nurturing problem-fixing skills but algorithm-solving observation, where they find patterns in the games that they recognise to follow or beat it - this means that children might end up being lost if they have to start from scratch (no pre-existing pattern?!), to create, invent or fix something that sets new rules or isn’t based on pre-existing parameters: this is what entrepreneurship and game-changing design/business is all about.

A design workshop with a group of 18 year-olds last year in Singapore posed the same problem: when asked to imagine and envision “The Industrial Park of the Future”, they found it hard to free themselves from in-expertise, and the uncertainty of what “the future” held, playing it safe and basing ideas on precedent. While research and general knowledge (now so readily available on the inter-web) was strong amongst participants, and gives foundation to concepts, most of the resulting masterplans seemed a bit similar, while 1 out of the 10 groups decided to throw out the competition rule-book and suggested a programme to create a forest-reserve on the site now, with the reasoning that in 50-100 years time, we’ll need all the help (as raw material, environmentally and psychologically) from nature that we can get - a bold suggestion for an industrial park.

What does this mean in the age of the geek, and do the ones rejecting our connectedness to the rest of the world doing enough to find balance?

The surrounding posts deal with this - below is a link chock-ed full of Technology Trends and coming up is a snippet from an article by Pico Iyer of The New York Times’ Sunday Review (Thanks Kennel) telling us that the most connected + media-savvy of us are feeling the need for balance and prioritization in their lives.

Image via frog: Technology Trends For 2012 on PSFK

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And then I start talking to younger people and I realize that they don’t understand where things come from. They don’t understand how the system works. This is terrifying. They just are consumers, and that’s it. And that’s like the dream if Orwell had written the dream. We don’t live in a socialist or capitalist society; it’s a consumerist society, and nobody cares, as long as they’ve got their goodies. And if it’s well-designed, it’s even better [points to an iPhone on the table].
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Terry Gilliam on On Ideas, Unlearning & Avoiding Debt

via The 99 Percent

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

Oct. 26, 2011 at 11:26am with 9 notes
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Inspiring talk from Justin Hall-Tipping on freeing energy from the grid: “the power plant of tomorrow is no power plant.

Justin Hall-Tipping works on nano-energy startups mastering the electron to create power. Full bio and more links

via TED

Oct. 7, 2011 at 11:17am with 33 notes
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theatlanticvideo:

‘Connected’ Sheds Light on Our Addiction to Social Technology

Tiffany Shlain’s feature-length documentary Connected is an intensely personal exploration of what human connection means in our modern, technology-obsessed world. In anticipation of the film’s release in New York next week, she shares an excerpt that looks at how our brain chemistry compels us to reach for our gadgets 24-7.

10:36am with 4 notes
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News junkies: “Hardly a man takes a half-hour’s nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, ‘What’s the news?’ as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels … Pray tell me anything new that has happened to a man anywhere on this globe,” he wrote in 1854. And when I came across his famous verdict—“Men have become tools of their tools”—I felt like an enormous tool.
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Sam Graham-Felsen, writer and filmmaker:

Why I Dumped My iPhone—And I’m Not Going Back

via GOOD

Sep. 26, 2011 at 8:43am with 8 notes
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Urban Immune System Research undertaken by the Institute for Boundary Interactions (IBI) is one of their ongoing research projects that “uses science, technology, art and design to explore the complex connections between people, places and things”. via IBI, PSFK and We Make Money Not Art…

Urban Immune System Research undertaken by the Institute for Boundary Interactions (IBI) is one of their ongoing research projects that “uses science, technology, art and design to explore the complex connections between people, places and things”.

via IBI, PSFK and We Make Money Not Art…