the risupia children’s museum at the panasonic center is a beautifully designed experience that explores math and science concepts through innovative social interfaces. my favorite are ‘big tangram’ and ‘prime number air hockey.’ in the first, children try to match a projected tangram by arranging foam shapes on the ground – which takes a lot […]
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race warcraft
at this year’s alt.chi conference, tyler pace will be presenting Can an Orc Catch a Cab in Stormwind? (doc download) an insight into the roles of race in the massive multiplayer on-line game World of Warcraft. he proposes that the character selection process itself imposes racial (and gender-based) constructs on the game inspired by the […]
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touch map
this is another example of a universal design map in the tokyo subway to reveal not only names in braille but also the complex three-dimensional arrangement of platforms with a delicatly raised relief in this bronze plaque.
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precious stamps
i just got back from a stamp exhibit at tokyo midtown’s design hub gallery – dozens are artists were commissioned to create stamps for the email age, when they become purely objects of art. i am still mesmerized by nagai kentaro’s piece together for peace, a collection of twelve stamps which recreate the chinese zodiac […]
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ipods cause cancer
i first saw japan tobacco’s surreal ‘tobacco etiquette‘ advertising campaign five years ago in the tokyo subway, and i thought it was just a unique and japanese way of discouraging smoking by appealing to a sense of communal responsibility. only yesterday did i see that the anti-smoking vignettes are interspersed with totally unrelated advice against […]
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font quiz
gabriel blue cira designed font flash cards for graphic designers and other ‘yupsters’ (between yuppies and hipsters). he might even make you a set or sell them one day at yupsta.com.
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museum lab
yesterday i visited dai nippon printing’s exhibit in gotanda (tokyo) called louvre museum lab – a series of interactive installations built around titian’s madonna of the rabbit. the interfaces are big and beautiful, so even though most of the curatorial content in available on-line, experiencing the museum lab in person is completely necessary. one interface […]
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empty maps
the personal map highlights the countries you’ve been to in red. i subtracted everything but the red places and found myself facing these three continents (above). it reminds me of the first map showing the ‘new world,’ this ptolemaic projection from 1511 (below). socratic definition of wisdom: the only thing i know, is that i […]
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