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interaction

…more and more people are reliant on online social communities such as Facebook and Twitter, leading to possible technology related anti-social behaviours. Those who are used to regularly publishing their personal life online may have difficulty adjusting to public scenarios in real life and may loose the ability to speak or interact with others face to face.This chair allows one to update their status like they usually do on their online profiles byputting up various signs that shows their current status….

some interesting (and fun) ideas from designer and RCA graduate alice wang who is …interested in exploring needs that huge corporations may not be able to satisfy; creating systems that differ from the unified systems that surround us; designing services that bring new experiences and products that encourage people to think and question….

m / 23-08-2010 14:44 - tags: ,  

east meets west

i was back in the studio with ‘ruud baan’ on friday for the latest poster shoot: ‘à la russe’ for the dutch national ballet, this time with three dancers: igone (from the netherlands), anna (from russia) and casey (from the states)

despite the obvious difficulties in shooting and choreographing three dancers at once for a photo, the session went very smoothly and we will be working on this particular poster in the coming weeks… more news soon

m / 22-08-2010 17:03 - tags: , ,  

2b

this amazing project understanding shakespeare is worth a look… it’s a similar idea to my ‘obama inauguration speech’ project, but then on a much more thorough and analytical scale…

The goal of this approach was to provide an overview of the entire play by showing its text through a collection of the most frequently used words for each character.
A scene is represented by a block of text and scaled relatively according to its number of words. Characters are ordered by appearance from left to right throughout the play. The major character’s speeches are highlighted to illustrate their amounts of spoken words as compared to the rest of the play.

(via my friends at fontanel)

m / 22-08-2010 11:04 - tags: ,  

freeze

cold guns available in coke, blackcurrant, licorice and cherry flavours (via mister de waal)

m / 21-08-2010 13:55 - tags: ,  

mayan calculator

spotted via my friend ‘thijs’ on twitter: an explication of the principle behind the ancient mayan calculator, you learn something every day…

m / 21-08-2010 13:53 - tags: , ,