Interactive Surfaces

A great example of furniture woven with technology:
iBar

Bruce Lee BMW

Just stumbled across this ad by BMW using a clip from a Bruce Lee interview, to sell the X3 I think they missed the point! - Big time :)


Watch the full interview below - this man's a legend

Moving Brands-London Design Festival 07

Last night I went to an inspirational talk done by a company called Moving Brands. Based in London and Tokyo they've done some amazing work and have a really unique future focussed approach to branding. This is what they've gotta say about themselves:

"At Moving Brands our multi-sensorial approach to identity creation begins with the story - the Brand Narrative® - at the heart of any brand. From there we build consistent and powerful identities that thrive across Static, Moving, Sonic and Responsive media. That's why the brands we create are able to respond to the different contexts and shifting platforms across which they need to communicate in today's moving world."

On saturday they'll be 10 years old - Happy birthday from the-uMe, "keep exploring in the cracks :)"

Here's a sample of some of there work they did for The London College of Fashion:

John Maeda @ TED

Got this clip from TED if you have'nt come across this site before you really need to check it out."TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds." Amazing video streamed lectures.

The clip below is of John Maeda - Talking about simplicity

The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art -- a place that can get very complicated. Here, he talks about paring down to basics, and how he creates clean, elegant art, websites and web tools. In his book Laws of Simplicity, he offers 10 rules and 3 keys for simple living and working -- but in this talk, he boils it down to one simply delightful way to be.

I'm back

Back in London after returning from our honeymoon. I've got to get through 567 posts[rss], the regular sites, and an untold amount of e.mails - watch this space.