The simply perfect ‘Building blocks Signage / Wayfinding’ by Australia’s Design by Toko which now owns playful where signage is concerned: The design is “based on children’s building blocks, for the East Sydney Early Learning and Community Centre featuring superb architecture by ABA.” Can’t think of a neater way of saying everything you’d ever want […]
Zelf Koelman is busy inventing the future of material interactions, or as he captures it, a place “Where digital meets nature”. What does that mean? A series of rolling experiments where art meets tech meets material science meets interaction. The result, in this instance, is called Ferrolic – which I guess is a compound of […]
News from designboom of buratti architetti’s work for Alfa Romeo in Milan, leading on the connection between a new car showroom and the museum collection (via an arresting-looking red lift shaft) of the dealership’s owners, Cozzi While there’s a interesting interior design story here, what’s perhaps more intriguing is the exterior. Considering the usual approach […]
Alongside the spread of instant signs, now add instagram signs… Cardboard Picture Frames Bring Instagram Filters Into The Analog World This rather odd initiative “Bruno Ribeiro has launched Real Life Instagram, placing physical filters in the capital city’s most photogenic places”. Ok, it’s fun, in a high-functioning-Instagrammer kind of way, but really? Isn’t the point […]
Does any city really need more signage? Judging from Walk Your City, the answer appears to be ‘yes’ and for economic, environmental and health reasons. Not a bad ideal, but I’m not convinced that the application’s idea really stands up to scrutiny. Take a look at the system here Walk [Your City] The originators claim […]
While Google Glass seems to have stolen the thunder, ‘heads-up’ displays began life in cars, so it seems only logical that these should converge. And here it is – The LiveMap helmet “projects full-color translucent images right at the center of the visor, but still provides a safe and unobstructed view for the rider.” Increasingly […]
Some aspects of our lives and day-to-day experiences seem immune to the technological changes that are increasingly shaping how we see the world. We now walk around with mobiles and have the whole world in our palms, able to call up at a moments notice the location of and directions to everything from coffees to […]
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