Category: design
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The Marshmallow Challenge
Johnny posted a fascinating TED talk by Tom Wujec that touches on some themes that I've talked about before, as well as some valuable lessons on collaboration. Tom has run more than 70 design workshops around the world with a variety of audiences from Fortune 50 CTO's, to business school graduates, to kindergarten children, and…
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3D Printing A Whole Building
I find the whole idea of 3D printing rather intriguing. Not least because along with free and openly available design software and affordable technology it has the potential to redefine manufacturing. Projects like Arduino, the open-source electronics prototyping platform, and Makerbot, the first sub $1000 dollar 3D printer that can produce plastic parts from digital…
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Democratising Industry
"If the past ten years have been about discovering post-institutional social models on the web, then the next ten years will be about applying them to the real world." Chris Anderson In his 'Does Journalism Exist?' lecture (which I wrote up in more detail here), Alan Rusbridger noted how many of The Guardian's most interesting…
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Artful Data
So one of my on-off obsessions of late has been the evolution of the data visualisation space. I think I find it so interesting because data commands such power now. For one thing there's so much of it. According to some, 2009 could have generated more individual data than has been created in the entire…
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Mag+
Below is a conceptual video (HT to Katy for the link) created by BERG London and the (Swedish publisher) Bonnier R & D team demonstrating a potential vision for digital magazines. I really like it. I like it because it strikes an excellent balance between attempting to capture some of the unique aspects that make…
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Data As Art
These data visualisations from Chris Harrison are so beautiful they are an art-form in themselves: Digg RingsUsing data from the digg API, the top ten most-dugg stories of the day over one year rendered in a series of tree-ring-like visualisations (moving outwards in time). The colour of the rings relate to digg's eight top-level categorizations,…
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Jer Thorp
Two amazing visualisations from Jer Thorp: First up – 'Just Landed' – originated from a thought about the data that is hidden in various social network information streams, this visualisation finds tweets that contain the phrase 'just landed in', parses out the location they’d just landed in along with the home location they list on…
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Social Interfaces
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5192300&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Touchwall Demo from Joel on Vimeo. For those not lucky enough to get to Cannes this year (me included), Schematic debuted a 12ft by 5ft intelligent, multi-user "Touchwall" designed to help delegates get the most from the event. As well as RFID technology that allowed the wall to recognise individual delegates, there were 3D…