The sign for the Gallery Hotel Art in Florence is very discrete – you can only see it at night, and it’s fashioned from small bits of bent wire, which when lit from above by a spotlight project shadows that reveal the hotel’s name on the stucco facade of the building.
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interfaces for museumgoers
While on vacation in France recently, I had the fortune to visit a few of the world’s leading museums, both in terms of the art displayed and the incredible quality of the exhibit design itself. Museums serve different roles for different people – as tourist destinations, research institution, and entertainment complexes. The spatial complexity of […]
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freaking surveillance
Annina has found a way to confound the watchers and make them think that the machines they are using against us have turned against them. link
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layered media
one of the best aspects of mashups are the way that collective intelligence can be leveraged to add meaning to web-based media. overstream is a web-based subtitle tool for youtube videos that allows anyone to contribute captions for existing videos. this has a lot of significance for the hearing impaired, as well as anyone who […]
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fictional computing
pierre wellner’s 1991 digital desk is a seminal piece of human-computer interaction research, but it’s also a pioneering video. in today’s interaction world, video documentation is essential to show how a dynamic, responsive system works. in many ways, videos are the documentation media best suited to interaction design. as wellner’s video demonstrates, it’s not necessary […]
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