Pic: Buy More To Go Green
Wednesday, den 18. February 2009
We’re not sure that this is exactly the message that the green movement was trying to encourage: If you buy more stuff, you’ll get a free bag. Seen outside a Hudson Booksellers in New Orleans Airport.
Agree? Or are we just being too particular?…
Uncategorized | 0 Kommentar »
Gary Hustwit Interview: Better Living Through Streamlined Design
Wednesday, den 18. February 2009
Boing Boing Gadgets got together with Objectified director Gary Hustwit, and explored questions about his new industrial design movie, and about design in general. Hustwit shares some great insights on quality design, consumption and streamlining our lives.
He talks about the sped-up process of product evolution:
30 or 40 years ago consumers put more thought into every purchase, took better care of their manufactured objects, and repaired them when they were broken. Who repairs their DVD player now? Come to think of it, who… Continue reading Gary Hustwit Interview: Better Living Through Streamlined Design
Uncategorized | 0 Kommentar »
Dystopian Farm: Skyscraper Garden & Social Space
Wednesday, den 18. February 2009
Eric Vergne is one of three finalists in this year’s Evolvo Skyscraper Competition. He’s created an unusual biomorphic building which is designed to be a hi-tech vertical farm to fulfill the needs of future New York City residents. It’s estimated that 80% of the world’s population will be living in urban centers by 2050, and vertical farms are an ever increasing part of the plan to help feed them in a sustainable manner.
Inhabitat explains:
Designed for the Hudson Yard area of Manhattan, Eric Vergne’s Dystopian Farm aims to provide New York with… Continue reading Dystopian Farm: Skyscraper Garden & Social Space
Uncategorized | 0 Kommentar »
Musical Youth II: 19 US Kids, 95 brands
Wednesday, den 18. February 2009So you might remember our post we wrote before, about the 44 ‘music related’ brands that came to mind in 6 minutes in one UK focus group… Ouch. Following up from a kind hint from AdAge, I thought we ought to see what brands occupied front of mind with the American youth… So we asked 19 US kids off the hip and they came up with 95 brands. The results can basically be split in to four different categories:
- Genuine music-aligned brands [like guitar companies, for example].
- Music-involved Brands, like Converse.
- Music-associated Brands, like Coca Cola.
- and then simply ‘Random Brands’, like Dentyne
Uncategorized | 0 Kommentar »
Letting the Audience Take Control to Tell One of a Kind Stories
Wednesday, den 18. February 2009
We’ve written about Shantell Martin a number of times over the past year, yet we remain inspired by both her art as well as her unique form of storytelling. In the below video, Shantell explains how her style evolved from doing street art and tags in London to doing much smaller and more intense drawings in Tokyo and how that ultimately influenced her current work utilizing projectors and wacomb tablets.
Explaining how her recent trip to New York helped develop her style, she describes how drawing in front… Continue reading Letting the Audience Take Control to Tell One of a Kind Stories
Uncategorized | 0 Kommentar »
Obama’s $8 Billion Investment in Sustainable Travel
Wednesday, den 18. February 2009
One part of the new economic stimulus plan environmentally conscious americans are excited about is the $8 billion investment in a new railroad system. The investment, the largest in US history, is set to enliven and modernize the form of transport through the development of a high-speed rail system that will link cities across the nation. Treehugger explains:
…The only sector in which Amtrak makes an actual operating profit on running trains is in the Northeast, where larger cities are closer together than in other parts of the nation, and the… Continue reading Obama’s $8 Billion Investment in Sustainable Travel
Uncategorized | 0 Kommentar »
PSFK Conference New York & San Francisco 09
Wednesday, den 18. February 2009We’ve started our planning for our next two larger events - the third conference in New York which should happen late March or early April (awaiting some event space scheduling) and in San Francisco at the end of July. We’ve had some wonderful support for our events from folks like The Guardian, Yahoo! and Anomaly over the last few years and we’d love to find new partnerships where we can work with companies to support each other. Video from the previous events can be found here.
If you’d like to know more about sponsorship, please drop our business development… Continue reading PSFK Conference New York & San Francisco 09
Uncategorized | 0 Kommentar »
Anti Hi-Def Glitch Style
Wednesday, den 18. February 2009
Datamoshing. It’s a video editing style that’s exactly as the name sounds. The look is achieved by messing around with video compression keyframes and roughing up the data until a beautiful, choppy, psychedelic mess ensues. Think of a video signal royally glitching up, and you get the idea. Kanye West uses this style in his recent “Welcome To Heartbreak” video (below) and check out Chairlift “Evident Utensil” for more mind-melting fun.
The idea of glitch based art is nothing new, but it seems to be enjoying a renaissance. Maybe it’s… Continue reading Anti Hi-Def Glitch Style
Uncategorized | 0 Kommentar »
NVDRS Cassette Tape: Designing Limitations to Manage Digital Abundance
Wednesday, den 18. February 2009
These days, designers are looking for ways to add tactile experience and analog physicality to devices that have become virtual and digital. Looking to create interfaces beyond flat touchscreens, they are embracing the clunky and perhaps flawed, but tangible aesthetic of the past.
The NVDRS Cassette Tape concept design utilizes… Continue reading NVDRS Cassette Tape: Designing Limitations to Manage Digital Abundance
Uncategorized | 0 Kommentar »
iPhone Turns to Crime
Wednesday, den 18. February 2009The iPhone has been a wonderfully handy gadget thus far. Its sleek interface and near-unlimited amount of useful applications make it a kind of digital Swiss Army knife that can do it all - including crime.
Webtopia, an Australian company has released a card counting app called “A Blackjack Card Counter,” for the iPhone and iPod Touch which has Las Vegas casinos in an uproar. Though it’s meant as a tool to train yourself to count cards (which isn’t illegal), the use of any kind of electronic device is. Card counting, which helps blackjack players know the best time to bet… Continue reading iPhone Turns to Crime
Uncategorized | 0 Kommentar »
« Next