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  • May 4th 2022
    tags: filed under hyperlinks, music

    © Love Hultén (via YouTube)

    This beautiful wooden sound machine called TE-LAB by audiovisual artist Love Hultén is inspired by the Turntable Sequencer from Lomond Campbell and built around modules from Swedish electronics company and design studio Teenage Engineering —whose products and design language I admire a lot.

    Read more about this unique instrument on the company’s blog.

    lovehulten.com/telab.html

  • April 26th 2022
    tags: filed under hyperlinks, technology

    © Google (via YouTube)

    Each object has its own communication method, like puffs of air or ambient sounds. Additionally, their simple movements and controls bring them to life and respond to changing surroundings and needs.

    Usually I’m not interested in smart home devices –I’m more in line with the sentiment of Internet of Shit, but this Google experiment called Little Signals shows some wonderful fresh and humane solutions for some rather common notification needs.

    And the best thing of it all: There are free instructions available to rebuild the technological side of those unusual objects yourself with widely available, affordable parts.

    littlesignals.withgoogle.com

  • March 29th 2022
    tags: filed under hyperlinks, design, essays

    If we want to build new systems, a healthier industry, and a better world – making good work is not enough. We need to be using the tools, talent and resources at our disposal to begin the kind of grassroots action that isn’t flashy, viral and PR-able. The type that isn’t about us at all – but about supporting our communities, environment, and mental health in meaningful ways that build a new world over time. We need to centre care as a creative principle.

    Why making good work is no longer enough. I am feeling this.

    itsnicethat.com/features/why-making-good-work-is-no-longer-enough-creative-industry-280322

  • March 29th 2022
    tags: filed under hyperlinks, design, essays

    The philosophy is rooted in the idea that computing systems should “simplify complexities, not introduce new ones.”

    The idea outlined in this essay reminds me of the wonderful concept of Shikake –”the Japanese art of shaping behaviour through design”– as well as the beautiful approach to tech displayed in the fantastic movie her and I wholeheartedly agree with its central claim; We need more Calm Design.

    uxdesign.cc/we-need-more-calm-design-96ba129a071d

  • February 23rd 2022
    tags: filed under hyperlinks, videos

    © Krista Kim / Times Square (via YouTube)

    Synchronized across 90 electronic billboards, a slowly shifting gradient of color washes over Times Square, creating a moment of calm amidst one of the most visually kinetic places in the world.

    Kim’s peaceful digital reflection takes over Times Square as the world persists through a pandemic that has disrupted and transformed our everyday lives, mental health, and collective well-being for almost two full years. Using the technology of our times, she creates a communal space that allows viewers to decompress.

    In February ‘Continuum‘ by artist Krista Kim turns the billboards throughout Times Square into a huge vibrant colorscape at midnight for an art series called ‘Midnight Moment’. What an absolutely magnificent way to use all of this screen estate.

    timessquarenyc.org/whats-happening/midnight-moment-continuum

  • February 10th 2022
    tags: filed under hyperlinks, videos, websites

    Made to Measure is an experiment that asks if you can reconstruct a person based solely on their digital data trail. Can you build a doppelganger of a person you don’t even know? Record, recreate, and replay the life of someone and their personality in detail?

    […]

    Take an hour of your time and join us in the world of digital trails. How close will we get to the person behind the data?

    How much does five years’ worth of personal Google data consisting of more than 100 000 data points reveal about the life of a person?

    Using the online data¹ from an anonymous volunteer, the Laokoon group worked together with data analysts to reconstruct this person based solely on their digital trail. The result of the experiment is shown in an intriguing documentary called Made to Measure which is available through the dedicated project website —alongside different media libraries.

    ¹ the data Google is legally required to release according to EU laws

    madetomeasure.online

  • February 8th 2022
    tags: filed under hyperlinks, essays

    For decades now, designers have been taught to consider human needs in their work — only human needs. But design that is good only for people, without looking at the well-being of our planet as a whole, has gotten us into trouble.

    As mentioned casually in another context before, I admire the work of Space10 a lot. The Swedish research and design lab is funded by IKEA on its mission to “create a better everyday life for people and the planet”.

    There are a bunch of great projects –including two wonderful books about ‘Future Food‘ and ‘Urban Futures‘– and an online journal full of interesting essays to discover, but for any creative, I recommend starting with this plea to move beyond human-centered design towards a “people-planet approach” published last year.

    space10.com/beyond-human-centered-design

  • It’s curious that change is so fast technologically and so slow socially.

    — Donald Judd Writings, Note from 25 Februar 1989, filed under well said, culture and sociology, January 21st 2022
  • December 30th 2021
    tags: filed under hyperlinks, essays

    The results seem to show PowerPoint is failing you in two key areas: increasing information transfer to your target and improving what people think of your brand (and you).

    Using a real-world business scenario, PowerPoint was rated (by online audiences) as no better than verbal presentations with no visual aids. Ouch.

    I haven’t used PowerPoint since back when I was at school presenting papers to my classmates and according to a recent Harvard study cited by Forbes, that’s apparently a good thing.

    I am curious what iA is able to contribute to the field of presentation applications when they release iA Presenter, though. iA Writer is a great piece of software that remains to be by far my favourite writing tool —an usually rather unglamorous type of app, too.

    forbes.com/sites/paularmstrongtech/2017/07/05/stop-using-powerpoint-harvard-university-says-its-damaging-your-brand-and-your-company/

  • November 19th 2021
    tags: filed under hyperlinks, art, design

    © nomena (via Vimeo)

    © nomena (via YouTube)

    nomena is investigating new types of space perception. research and practice, academic and commercial, technology and aesthetic.

    As mentioned in the about section of this blog, I love projects which cross-scale in media and studios (and creatives) who work interdisciplinary. Japanese studio nomena by Shohei Takei is such a studio, working at the intersection of art, design and science to create amazing tactile projects.

    nomena.co.jp

  • September 20th 2021
    tags: filed under hyperlinks, videos, art, culture and sociology, design

    © Kirby Ferguson (via YouTube)

    Our creativity comes from without, not from within. We are not self made, we are dependent on one another. Admitting this to ourselves isn’t an embrace of mediocrity and derivativeness —it’s a liberation from our misconceptions, and it’s an incentive to not expect so much from ourselves, and to simply begin.

    As creatives, we are usually driven to chase what we think of as purely original ideas. While I was studying design, a video series called Everything is a Remix was making the rounds, offering another –presumably much healthier– perspective on novelty and inspiration.

    A decade later, Kirby Ferguson is apparently redoing the series for 2021 and I recommend every creative to watch it —but especially those who are still in training.

    everythingisaremix.info

  • September 19th 2021
    tags: filed under hyperlinks, culture and sociology, essays

    My lostness comes from the sense that our cultural collections are not wholly our own anymore. In the era of algorithmic feeds, it’s as if the bookshelves have started changing shape on their own in real time, shuffling some material to the front and downplaying the rest like a sleight-of-hand magician trying to make you pick a specific card — even as they let you believe it’s your own choice. And this lack of agency is undermining our connections to the culture that we love.

    Even though I definitely don’t consider The digital death of collecting being something I myself might be affected anytime soon –I collect LPs, books and magazines, polaroids and probably even too much other physical stuff, I do fear Kyle Chayka’s observations might hold true for the general public —especially for the generations yet to discover the broad field of culture.

    Another interesting essay adding to the sentiment that made me publish on this blog again in the first place.

    kylechayka.substack.com/p/essay-the-digital-death-of-collecting

  • August 10th 2021
    tags: filed under hyperlinks, videos, art

    © Jason Bruges Studio / Sam King (via Vimeo)

    An interesting installation by London based Jason Bruges Studio for the past Olympic and the upcoming Paralympic Games in Tokyo:

    The Constant Gardeners will create a new visual language to communicate and celebrate the motion of the professional athletes and their feats of physical prowess. The installation will produce dynamic, representative patterns, which ‘the gardeners’, a team of four industrial robot arms mounted on linear rails, will precisely rake into a large-scale gravel canvas, consisting of fourteen tonnes of crushed black basalt, surrounded by a further four tonnes of silver-grey granite. In a series of daily performances, ‘the gardeners’ will work together to create around one-hundred-and-fifty unique illustrations throughout the duration of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

    jasonbruges.com/theconstantgardeners

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