Loqisaur Nomming on GPS Points

August 24th, 2010 § 0

illustrations made by: www.twitter.com/mpanighetti!
fffound on: amber case/caseorganic’s flickr stream

Loqisaur Nomming on GPS Points

Geoloqi is a project developed by Amber Case && Aaron Parecki!! According to the website, it is a “private, real-time mobile and web platform for securely location data, with features such as Geonotes, proximal notification, and sharing real-time GPS maps with friends.” read more at geoloqi.org
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High Touch Visuals

July 7th, 2010 § 0

According to Gestalten, “manifesting creative visions into material objects and spaces is one of the most prominent developments in contemporary design today. Tangible documents how designers are using the stylistic means of graphic design to implement their ideas spatially to create three-dimensional designs, objects and orchestrated spaces.

The examples in this book show the unprecedented use of materials and innovative ideas – graphics morph into spatial sculptures, the intangible is made visual through handmade craftsmanship, physical experiences, visual environments and staged spatial installations such as art installations, interiors and architecture as well as urban interventions. ”
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Music Analogy

August 12th, 2009 § 0

beautifulthing: An introduction to design
by Robert Clay

According to research by Geraint Wiggins, “music is a uniquely human trait. Our brains automatically search for patterns in sounds, with different people (automatically differentiating) between different patterns and rhythms from the same constant beat.”

Throughout history, studies have shown that music directly affects our emotions and is also strongly related to movement, such as the gesture of tapping toes or finger snaps. In a visual sense, this is analogous to moving through a building or reading a painting.
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Society, Not Included

August 5th, 2009 § 0

Reading Jan Chipchase (a mixture of anthropology, researcher and world traveller) on his thoughts and ideas in interaction design and communication related to the Iran revolution, utilizing privacy and technology.

The article draws information from a recent international research study, and references, concerning different socio-cultural and location in a non-western context. Places such as Tibet, Mongolia, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan. However, what caught my attention was the brief mention about a pseudo-technophobe:

8. “Increasingly the choice of whether to adopt, or opt-in to a technology is one of whether to opt-out of society.”

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The Very Simple Idea Of A 3D Bitmap

March 22nd, 2009 § 0

This show, organized within a series of exhibitions curated by Command-N (an activity-based art collective directed by the artist Masato Nakamura) highlights the newest activities of the artist Hideki Nakazawa, focused on the actual patents he has obtained during the past recent years.


His main patent deals with the very simple idea of a “3D bitmap”: if you know what a “pixel” (= abbreviation of pictures + element) is, you just need to think of a pixel in 3 dimensions.


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So You Want To Be An Interactive Design Student

February 8th, 2009 § 0

BARCAMP Vancouver 07Barcamp Vancouver 07

also entitled: things I wished they discussed about at IXDA… and, couldn’t afford to go :P

  • Build a portfolio.
  • if you have nothing to build a portfolio with: start making stuff (blogs, websites for other people, photography, music, food, articles, clothes, video capture, favorite films, stories, interviews, games)
  • use any and everything you learn towards your degree
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We Talk About Design History

May 4th, 2008 § 0

What We Talk About When We Talk About Design History
by Design Observer

From the packaging of our belongings to the presentation of our surroundings, most of us recognize that design has, over the course of the past century, become a ubiquitous component in everyday life.

Design is signage and graffiti and labels and lace, posters and propaganda and toothbrushes and teapots: objects and artefacts that captivate and delight us, frustrate or provoke us, but why?

vandigicam gastown walk (by rocketcandy)
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