DeSIGN As A GaME

Watch Out! Don’t Cut Your Tongue

2009-05-10T00:33:00.004+08:00

Designer: Wooteik Lim

let out ants with touch

2009-05-07T23:03:00.005+08:00

let out ants with touch[st10] from Kate Johnson on Vimeo.

Samsung launched out new digital camera commercial film.
they are showing their touch screen and vibration tech by using ants.

Tout Va Bien cabinet by Antoine Audiau and Manuel Warosz

2009-05-06T02:14:00.006+08:00

BY ROSE ETHERINGTON

Milan 09:
graphic designers Antoine Audiau and Manuel Warosz presented a cabinet for furniture brand BD Barcelona Design at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan.

Called Tout Va Bien, the cabinet is decorated with relief patterns derived from “arts and crafts, hieroglyphic language, contemporary graphics, fantasy, and optimism.”

See all our stories from Milan in our special Milan 09 category.
Here’s some text from BD Barcelona Design:

TOUT VA BIEN
Rarely does a graphic designer (two, in this case) go into the field of furniture design. We have to go far back in time to find them, to the times of the high and low reliefs. This is exactly what Antoine Audiau and Manuel Warosz have done, a couple of extraordinary Parisian graphic artists who sign their works as Antoine + Manuel. The cabinet they have designed for this new collection brought out by Bd Barcelona design is a surprising mixture of arts and Crafts, hieroglyphic language, contemporary graphics, fantasy and optimism. It is produced with the quality of yesteryear but using today’s technologies in two versions, Basic and Top, distinguished by the shape of the top and because the more exclusive option also offers the possibility of choosing the colour in accordance to the RAL colour references.

ilamp by SystemDesignStudio

2009-05-05T13:38:00.004+08:00

The ilamp is made of white silicon with a electroluminescent polymer screen. Both the lamp and the screen is flexible which makes it possible to shape and take any given form. By combining new technology we have been able to design this super slim flexible lamp. This lamp gives one an tactil feel different from other lamps.

This lamp this composed by a single flexible silicone surface that contains contracted seven screens of leds. The whole body of the lamp can flex to give the position and direction that we want. An experience to the tact and the flexible movemente

Designer: Remi Melander (Norway)

Manufacturer: SystemDesignStudio (Spain)

'heart art' for AIGA

2009-05-04T23:53:00.003+08:00

MonkeeHub

2009-05-03T17:08:00.008+08:00

LINK:JCB Music Video
A.W.E.S.O.M.E!!

Milan Design Week 09

2009-05-02T16:42:00.011+08:00

colorado

montanara

'gli amici' (friends)

Univers Revolved

2009-05-01T23:51:00.000+08:00

Unlike the letters of our standard alphabet, those of Univers Revolved are bilaterally symmetrical and may therefore be read in both left-to-right and right-to-left directions. And because they are three-dimensional, they can be stacked, arranged in circles, or set in motion; they can become toys, pieces of furniture, buildings, or chocolate candies.
Enter into this stunning typographic dream!

From cpluv.com

Honda Insight - Let It Shine

2009-04-30T13:13:00.006+08:00

The way they integrated the Vimeo page was quite astonishing!!!
the full page change over - didn't expect that!

CHECK IT OUT

BRIAN WALKER - A plastic obsession

2009-04-29T14:11:00.010+08:00

Sydney based artist, Brian Walker, credits his desire to seamlessly fuse fashion, illustration and the element of surprise as the driving creative force behind his artworks.

In a time where the line between hyper-realities and those of our own is becoming finer, the Sydney artist's work speaks a relative language. The digital artist is inspired by surreal landscapes, the evolution of fashion and changing popular culture. Walker takes these inspirational genres and merges them with his concept of 'using photography as a tool to represent the ideas of the impossible'.

Noting David La Chapelle as a major influence, Walker strives to create a hyper-real visual language which at first glance appears real, and at second, evolves into the surreal. More of the Sydney artists work can be seen at lickthesun.com

BY ANDY G

high tech tap

2009-04-29T13:17:00.006+08:00

iHouse reveals new products with revolutionary concept.

new products that use of facial recognition and smart services are the big hit of the high tech loft that iHouse built for FEICON, construction show that happens this week in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Once again iHouse revolutionizes the marketplace releasing two new concept-products for home automation that combine design, sophistication and high technology using facial recognition.

Smartfaucet
iHouse's SmartFaucet sophisticated design with the ultimate technology. Using facial screening application the SmartFaucet recognizeds the user and automatically turns on the water to your preferred temperature and flow. In addition the touch screen on the top of the faucet can be used to access e-mails, check the outside temperature, check your calendar, etc.

Fadec
iHouse's facial recognition tool transforms the user in the house's remotecontrol. It has a color 2.8" touch screen, a camera and iHouse's powerful software that recognizeds the user and controls any device associated to it.

This way you can create scenes, control the AC, shades, lights and other iHouse products like the SmartShower and the SmartHydro according to each one's preferences.

fromiHouse

ST10

2009-04-28T14:33:00.002+08:00

Do you want to take the best smart digital camera?
ST10 takes smart touch UI and multi function.
Just fallow "St Jobs" this presentation.

check this ST10 AD out from pitt park on Vimeo.

nice cruiser!

2009-04-28T13:29:00.002+08:00

Laser Games

2009-04-27T13:59:00.004+08:00

We have experienced games on PC, mobile, smart phones TV etc now we can experience in laser technology too. Games will get bigger and end user can enjoy a lot.

Following video is created by
LitStudio.

LaserGames (short 1) from Alpay Kasal on Vimeo.

Interactive Mirror

Interactive Mirror from Alpay Kasal on Vimeo.

Transforming OLED Panels

2009-04-26T06:17:00.006+08:00

Philips has produced a fantastic new piece of OLED technology. They’ve created small panels that can instantly transform from illuminated to transparent. Watch the video below for a demonstration.

"You fade to light" - OLED Installation from rAndom International on Vimeo.

6th Sense Wearable Technology

2009-04-26T05:03:00.001+08:00

Margaret Morris - The Mood Phone and the Circumplex Model

2009-04-25T23:53:00.002+08:00

by Gary Wolf

A few weeks ago I wrote about the dream of the mood phone. This dream has been so persistent that its appeal probably reaches beyond mere technical utility to touch other, unspoken feelings about the role of the phone in our social life. After all, it is often hard to perceive the mood of a person on the other end of a phone conversation. The other person's mood is inaccessible to us through the instrument that connects us, and maybe we wish that the phone were enhanced, so that it could deliver a better signal about the state of the person we are talking to. The phone is intimate, in a way: we have their voice in our ear. But it is impersonal, also: we are kept from noticing many important things. Simultaneous intimacy and inaccessibility: this also describes our relationship with our own moods. We know our moods well, we feel them directly. And yet, sometimes we fail to notice them, or even mistake them. A person observing us from the outside can say: "Are you angry? You seem angry." And we may have to pause for a minute and ask: "am I angry?" We are both intimate with and separate from our moods, both near and far, like when we talk on the phone.In the earlier post I mentioned the work of Margaret Morris, who developed a research application for fostering emotional self-awareness on the mobile phone. The mood phone application includes mood scales and mobile therapies. Recently, she emailed to describe some of the ways she has dealt with the controversies over the best way to measure mood. (See this post for a review.) Below is her description of what she did.A key part of the Mood Phone project on fostering emotional self-awareness was the Mood Map. The Mood Map translates Russell's circumplex model of emotion into a touchscreen experience sampling tool. It is a single green screen organized by the two dimensions of arousal and valence. A red dot could be pulled around the map by fingertip to place one's current emotional state. This approach seemed to more elegant and less annoying than a long series of questions. I wanted to reduce the chances of worsening mood in the course of asking about it constantly. Iterative field studies led to a couple of design changes that made the tool more intuitive: removing internal mood labels from the mood map (see difference between two images below), and changing the vertical axis label from arousal to energy. The primary critique of the circumplex model -- that it does not allow simultaneous reporting of positive and negative moods -- was addressed through the addition of single dimensional scales for happiness, sadness, anger and anxiety. In the experience sampling sessions, people answered the mood map and then either all of the scales or a subset of them, along with questions about who they were with, what they were doing, eating, etc. The MyExperience sampling tool developed at Intel Research Seattle was a building block for this querying system.Analsysis of the Mood Map and other mood scales entries is ongoing but preliminary results seem to support Russell's bipolarity argument (i.e., there are negative correlations between emotion scales of opposite polarity). I interviewed people extensively throughout their use of the application. Most really liked the Mood Map as a means to check in on themselves at any given moment and calibrate their mood over time. No one complained about not being able to register positive and negative moods at the same moment, but ideally I would allow multiple entries in a single query. The visuals of the map definitely seemed to stick with people - they used the axes to frame their discussions of reactions, possible trajectories, self-correcting strategies, interpersonal dynamics, patterns of groups etc, whether or not they were talking about the map per se. In some of the field studies, people saw weekly trends of their mood patterns, as a function of behaviors (e.g., eating, sleeping), location, activity, social context. This self-investigation was interesting to most people and for some, prompted lifestyle and communication changes. Some aspects of this work are described in:Morris, M. 2007. Technologies for heart and mind: New directions in embedded assessment. Intel Technology Journal. Vol 11.

Debut

2009-04-25T21:06:00.014+08:00

For the past two months i have been learning interaction design.
Now i reckon my thinking for design is much more profound than ever before,
but it's indeed not enough. Actually my appetite for new knowledge is whetted.lol.

This is my exclusive blog for interaction design.
I enjoy not only id but other interesting&bright art,
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