I’m sure the guys at Graffiti Research Lab are just laughing their asses off at this video, which is little more than a projector-enabled showcase of MS paint. Weak sauce on parade at the Salt Building inside the Athlete’s Village this year, gee thanks Tangible Interaction. I expected more, even from Canada.
Monthly Archive for February, 2010
http://www.vimeo.com/9503416
Nice to see someone is teaching for industry application these days.
At first I hated the oversized cap on this thing and then realized that it offers up a certain degree of character. After all, why spin all that new tooling if you can use something off the shelf from another product? Perfect offering from Stanley’s classic line. $17 here.
I love seeing stuff like this where Consumer Electronics manufacturers literally take aim at one another. In this case Nintendo, via interview with WSJ basically throws down and says ‘we ain’t scared’ to all of it’s peers. Since they have a stranglehold on the youth demographic it’s well served, although Little Big Planet represents vulnerability to say the least. Do they deserve points for style–absolutely. Image and link via Gizmodo.
It’s pretty much a $100 frame that you can consider a blank canvas to build from with your own components. Not the cleanest of welding, not even painted, just the basics put together to make riding a bike reachable for pretty much anyone. Nothing more–nothing less. Check it out here.
I want these, and I want them nowish–before CB2 or UO knocks them off. Or maybe I will just get that laser cutter I have been wanting for xmas since I was eight years old first. Whatever. Either way these do bring up IP issues related to font royalties considering the inventor of the font’s estate should benefit from at least a percentage of it’s profits. Brought to you by Beverly Hsu. Via StapleDesign.
Interval Studies by Tristan Perich is a series of different sound installations. What I can appreciate is the construction of grids of speakers, each emitting a single 1-bit tone with a different pitch. It functions on a unique level in regards to an artist statement, but from an aesthetic standpoint it’s really nice stuff to work from. Via TodayandTomorrow.
http://www.vimeo.com/9490293
Designing interfaces is tightrope in terms of providing detail. Too much or too little results in poor results when it comes to icons since they represent something fairly abstract–a concept, such as ‘home’ or a set of features and functions, in the case of a settings menu. Issue is hitting that ’sweet spot’ right in the middle isn’t as easy as the diagram above would suggest. The goal is not to make your user interface as realistic as possible knowing to add only those details which help users identify what an element is, and how to interact with it. Given the variety of interfaces out there attempting to enable navigation agnostic of icon labels these are important considerations to bear in mind. Via joegebbia
Yes, this is a toilet Transformer. Doomed to roam the universe alone since his disguise is more or less a cruel joke and no one likes to be seen hanging out with a crapper with appendages. Apparently someone at green-friendly Japan-based commode manufacturer TOTO , makers of the ‘Greenmax,‘ thought this might bolster marketing efforts. Where else would a company use an action figure to sell bathroom fixtures? In a case of hardcore irony the company most likely does more net damage to the environment with the tooling and manufacturing of the toy (either in Vinyl or PVC) plus all that packaging. Via slipperybrick
Via my new favorite site, thinkingforaliving.