Well..at first I went: "WOW" - then when I saw its interior design it gave me shivers. This amazing building, which perfectly reflects it surroundings while being disruptive, is located in Surrey England. This video has the Dutch architect, Winy Maas, describing why he created this design. http://vimeo.com/20199915 I asked to my daughter if she [...]
Category: ideas
To design products with recycling in mind | VIDEO
I stumbled upon this interesting and useful project, Cradle to Cradle, discovering that it is not a brand new project but it dates back 2006, when this video was first released. Developed by American architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle envisions an economy based on closed-loop cycles of materials. Imagine an [...]
Crowdsourcing music video: The Vaccines and Instagram | VIDEO
I am a fan of crowdsourcing and I love photography and technology, this is why this project by the band The Vaccines captured my attention. The Vaccines asked to their fans to upload pictures using Instagram to be used in the video of their "Wetsuit" song. The result is a not-that-original video but some pictures [...]
Do you feel beauty? | VIDEO
I have just watched this wonderful TED talk from Richard Seymour about design and beauty and the relationship between emotions and design, suggesting that what designers must pursue is the emotional functionality of things. Enjoy, share and comment!
Controlling Virtual Limbs by Feeling Virtual Textures | VIDEO
“Although real-life brain-controlled prosthetics that enable a person to, say, pick up a pencil continue to improve for amputees, limbs that can actually feel touch sensations have remained a challenge. Now, by implanting electrodes into both the motor and the sensory areas of the brain, researchers have created a virtual prosthetic hand that monkeys control [...]
Cool Desert Living
This amazing project was published on Dec. 20, 2010 by Christopher Daniel of Violent Volumes. Quoting the Violent Volumes blog: "At times, the simplest form with least manipulation from its original form can offer visual amenities and adapted solution to the context. California Roll prefabricated house takes this methodology to create its morphological adaptation to [...]
Shine flower shine!
I was reading about this amazing accidental discovery by Rami Louca at the University of Cambridge Nanoscience centre in Wired UK. Louca grew a spherical "flower" - a titanium dioxide nanoparticle filament coated in a light- absorbing dye that works like chlorophyll in plants - floating in solution. The result is maybe the next- generation of [...]
Ideas that will last forever | VIDEO
This is a video that I will show to my daughter, a great lesson from someone who has always kept looking and never settled: Steve Jobs.
Sparkle Labs harness the power of the electron!
I stumbled upon these incredible kits from Sparkle Labs. I have never thought that electronics could be a cool thing, but I made up my mind when I saw these cute Papertronics Lunar Module. And when I discovered that they also have a great blog Sparkle Labs Education where they teach how to assemble their [...]
A “Living” Logo For Wikipedia, With More Than 3.2 Million Variations | VIDEO
Try drawing Wikipedia’s logo purely from memory. You can’t, right? Because it’s terribly unmemorable, an unfinished globe constructed out of jigsaw puzzle pieces and inscribed with glyphs from a bunch of different writing systems, symbolizing “the multilingualism of Wikipedia.” It’s the branding equivalent of “We Are The World”: blandly earnest. So Moving Brands, a British [...]
A Video Series Teaching Web Design To Anyone Who’s Afraid Of Code
A new series of web tutorials called “Don’t Fear the Internet” tries to teach web design to people who don’t want to be web designers. Anyone who has ever tried to build a website for the first time knows that awful feeling when confronted with lines of HTML, CSS, and PHP, languages as foreign [...]
The Alphabet 2
The Alphabet 2- a horn book video experiment – is a developmental spelling – video where each character visually represents the meaning of the word itself. Playing with different techniques and materials into little and big spaces, but always focusing on Helvetica font’s proportions. A collection of words in a delightful spelling-video. Direction / Postproduction [...]
Easy to find Tape
Quite often a simple but subtle change makes the world with big difference, and the Easy-to-Find Tape is rightly a good example. It features a wavy look, which thus allows the users to find the end of a tape more quickly and easily. For guys ever bothered by hard-to-find-end tapes, this one is [...]
Let there be light – a wonderful one!
No comment to add to this marvelous video about how creativity can solve problems. Amazing.
Does Design Scale?
From a LinkedIn discussion about Design Scale: "At the DTUC 2011 event, the newly crowned Poet Laureate of Design Thinking (Sudhir Desai) provocatively suggested that "design thinking doesn't scale". This kind of thought is also prevalent in a TED talk by Geoffrey West (http://bit.ly/rhGCqK) on the scalability of cities (brought to our attention by Andrew [...]
The WWW Conference
A celebration of improvised conversation: Intellectual jazz. Richard Saul Wurman, creator of the TED (1984/2002), TEDMED (1998-2010) & the eg conferences (2006), will celebrate improvised conversation in its most informative manner. No presentations No schedule No expensive tickets Simply pairings of amazingly interesting individuals prompted by a question, generating a conversation. For 10 minutes to [...]
