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.

MK12 Typographic Motion Graphics

Couple of Animated Typo experiments by the guys at MK12

Song:Streetlight Manifesto from Point Counterpoint


Song: From The Hush Sound [Work in progress]

Softspace: Contemporary Interactive Environments

On Saturday 8 September 2007, 14.00–18.00 the Tate Modern is holding a talk/discussion around the area of Physical Space Interaction. The talk/discussion will be chaired by are Lucy Bullivant and the speakers will include Jane Burton, Jason Bruges, Usman Haque, Lev Manovich, Despina Papadopoulos,Daan Roosegaarde.

The physically permanent identity of architecture has helped to define society for centuries. Now some practitioners have disengaged from tectonics as we traditionally understand it and are taking their discipline into the realms of ‘softspace’, a more fluid, ephemeral form of digitally-enabled design based on personalised experiences and responses. Softspace deploys new spatial systems including wearable computing, wifi, RFID and custom-designed digital software incorporating light, heat, sound and electromagnetic fields. These not only rely on people’s individual ways of interacting with them, but are enriched by narratives people contribute, creating new metaphors of use. Responsive environmental strategies of this kind have increasingly colonised museums and galleries like Tate, the Science Museum and the V&A.

While the notion of a fantasy world made possible ‘on demand’ by new technologies is the theme of films like Minority Report and ExistenZ, contemporary softspace projects play a more subtle and open-ended influence on contemporary socio-spatial dynamics and our sensing abilities. Architects Usman Haque, Jason Bruges and Daan Roosegaarde and designer Despina Papadopoulos discuss the cultural implications of their work with Tate Modern curator Jane Burton and curator, author and critic Lucy Bullivant, guest editor of 4dsocial: Interactive Design Environments (AD/Wiley, 2007). Lev Manovich, the ground-breaking new media art theorist, is a keynote speaker.

If you want to read some more or book tickets click here.

gPhone - Google's phone launching soon

Apparently its only two weeks away from launch!!
Click here to read more

World longest visual website

The "longest visual website in the world" on which visitors are asked to submit a 300x700px image to contribute to a continuous vertical banner, now approximately 18665.64cm long. Great for those times when your needing a bit of visual inspiration.

CLICK HERE to be inspired

Virtual Me

Real time 3D rendered avatar face over your own via a web cam - looks like fun :)

see more clips here