few human artifacts have traveled beyond the earth’s gravity, and even fewer were designed to carry a message to those beyond. compared to the elegance of the messages included with the pioneer and voyager spacecraft, our latest extraterrestrial broadcast seems a little immature. on the other hand, it’s very very small. mark wadsworth and tom […]
Category Archives: visualization
paper laptops
these drawings are actually prototype laptops designed by seven-to-nine-year-old children as part of the “laptop club.” the use of paper prototyping for designing laptops and learning about what children use computers for is brilliant, it also makes me wish to do the same in the class i teach. on the other hand limiting the idea […]
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blogjects
last friday i was invited by tom klinkowstein to talk about ‘living objects’ at pratt in an event called ‘it’s alive! (experience design)‘ together with irene pereyra and anthony townsend. the event looked at what the life of a designer would be like in 2030. here are some images from the poster that was prepared […]
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rendering opinions
america’s first wind-power project off the coast of cape cod is being fought over renderings. wind-industry-backed (with 61% resident support) cape wind produced a set of renderings of how the offshore wind farm would look from several places on the cape, many of which were used by “grass roots” save our sound, really a minority […]
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loopy design
in the aftermath of the birth of environmentalism in the US and the beginning of earth day in 1970, paper recycler ‘the container corporation of america’ sponsored a student design competition for a symbol that represents the recycling process. in september 1970 then-college senior gary anderson won the $2,500 prize with his now-infamous ‘mobius loop.’ […]
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rainbow builders
colour lovers is social network built around color palettes, where you can upload, browse and vote on user-generated color schemes. and the color palette generator automatically matches any image on-line. it’s nice to see user-generated content and web-based tools that can really start to be useful in designing things. it would be even better if […]
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watching paint dry
finally someone has posted the entirety of ‘le mystere de picasso’ (the mystery of picasso) in 13 parts on youtube. the incredible film shows picasso’s painting process by filming a series of paintings as they are made. this clip shows how they are made: by filming through a sheet of glass onto which the master […]
voodoo chat
schulze and webb’s availabot is an ambient reminder of whether your friend is logged in to chat. it’s a good idea to take non-essential functions off your computer desktop, but it’s too bad you have to connect the doll via USB and keep it on your physical desktop. i’ve always imagined a set of dolls […]
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