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February 2nd, 2012 | Katy | Categories: Inspiration, Installation, Music, Outdoor, Sculpture | Tags: Art, Installation, Music, real-time, Technology | No Comments »
Roof-mounted sensors translate light, rain, wind and thunder inputs to generate an impromptu musical score.
Drawing its sounds directly from the elements, no day’s synthesizer-style music is the same — who knew lightning could sound like reverb and that moonlight purrs?
Another take on a musical house from the artist Swoon: http://kck.st/lDCdCT
Via Laughing Squid
February 2nd, 2012 | Katy | Categories: Geolocation, Inspiration, Interactive, Mobile, Outdoor, Tool | Tags: google maps, Interactive, iphone, Mobile | No Comments »
Two mobile apps for navigating the city in two very different ways:
Embark – maps plus some more hand-holding (i.e. alerts, underground access)
Via Laughing Squid
Serendipitor – maps plus simple instructions to follow along the way — for the more whimsical commuter
January 6th, 2012 | James Taylor | Categories: Design, Development, Education, Inspiration, Interactive, Reference, Technology, Tool | Tags: adobe, css3, design, development, HTML5, Inspiration, Interactive, Technology, web | No Comments »
Adobe’s The Expressive Web demos the emerging capabilities that html5 and css3 deliver.
January 4th, 2012 | Friends | Categories: Art, Geolocation, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, Mobile, Prototyping, Technology | Tags: 3D, app, printing | No Comments »
Grow Interactive worked with Google to concept and develop Uncover Your World, a lovely mobile experience for Google’s Search App.
To build the ad experience, Grow modeled an entire “world” with 3D technology and used a 3D printer to bring it to life. Check out the making-of video below:
You can explore the mobile site here: http://www.uncoveryourworld.com/
Contributed by Mia Ruiz-Escoto
January 4th, 2012 | Katy | Categories: Art, Inspiration, Interactive, Mobile, Sculpture, Technology, Tool | Tags: maps, QR code | No Comments »
You may think their time has passed, but what if QR Codes were less ugly and more useful?
Designer Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino set out to improve this troubled medium with Mapcodes, a hyper-linking system that uses fragments of maps — instead of indecipherable blocks — to link to full maps.
http://designswarm.com/blog/2011/09/mapcodes/
Although still in prototype/idea territory, it’s refreshing to see more user-friendly (and beautiful) graphic languages being developed for connecting digital content to physical locations.
Contributed by Ralph Paone
December 12th, 2011 | James Taylor | Categories: Architecture, Art, Data Visualization, Events, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, Outdoor, Sculpture, Social, Technology | Tags: Art, Data Visualization, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, mood, Projection, Sculpture, Social | No Comments »
Fühl-o-meter assesses the sentiment of peoples faces’ and projects the ambient mood of the city through a smiley face atop a tower.
via laughing squid
November 1st, 2011 | Katy | Categories: Inspiration, Music, Outdoor, Tool | Tags: app, ipad, iphone, Mobile, Music, sound | No Comments »
Collect sounds from everyday life and use this app to make music with them!
Via Laughing Squid
November 1st, 2011 | Katy | Categories: Art, Inspiration, Technology, Tool | Tags: Art, digital, sketch, Wacom | 1 Comment »
Attention all creative directors who never bothered to learn Photoshop: here’s an amazing new Wacom tool that transforms your sketches into digital files.
Contributed by Collin Whitehead
Via Discovery News
October 6th, 2011 | James Taylor | Categories: Development, HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, Music, Outdoor, Technology | Tags: dj, gesture, Inspiration, Interactive, kinect, Microsoft, Music, sound | No Comments »
Using Kinect, Romain Dumaine controls sound with gestures with an aim to enhance interaction between a DJ and the crowd.
Kinecthacks.com showcases other kinect/sound experiments.
October 3rd, 2011 | Katy | Categories: Development, Education, Inspiration, Tool, Video | Tags: education, html, Video | No Comments »
Continuing the Internet self-education theme, “Don’t Fear the Internet” is another great resource bank of instructional videos that explain how the Internet works and teach some basic coding.
The project was cooked up by designers and it, in their words, will “help demystify html and css coding so you can prettify your blogs and quit asking your nerd friends for freebies!”
Check it out: http://www.dontfeartheinternet.com/
