Teradadesign Architecture recently unveiled a building facade made entirely of QR tags. In a community of billboard covered buildings, the facade gives N Building a dynamic and social appeal. From the designers:
By reading the QR Code with your mobile device you will be taken to a site which includes up to date shop information. In this manner we envision a cityscape unhindered by ubiquitous signage and also an improvement to the quality and accuracy of the information itself.
December 15th, 2009 we held an opening which included the limited release of an iPhone application made specifically for N Building. If a QR Code is static, what could we do with a dynamic device like the iPhone? Our proposed vision of the future is one where the facade of the building disappears, showing those inside who want to be seen. As you press on the characters their comments made on online appear in speech bubbles. You can also browse shop information, make reservations and download coupons. Rather than broadly tagging, we display information specific to the building in a manner in which the virtual (iPhone) serves to enhance the physical (N Building). Our goal is to provide an incentive to visit the space and a virtual connection to space without necessarily being present.
Standard Time is a art project by Mark Formanek recording the manual changing of a digital clock over a 24hr period. The video is for sale as a dvd and screensaver.
Artist’s Statement:
“Standard Time is a performance lasting exactly 24 hours and recorded on film. However, this film is much more than just the recording of an action, the recording of something that has taken place in the past; it is also a clock. A clock for use right now and in the future which, as each day goes by, extends further into the past, but is still up-to-date and punctual”.
Awesome data sculpture made up of 60+ molecular globes that change color depending on the weather forecast. Check out the video and stills on the site.
Minivegas first caught my attention with their awesome real-time idents for Welsh network S4C, which required a staggering 50,000 lines of code and shooting live action to create!
Here’s another cool piece of work they’ve done – a visualizer controlled by sound / music and hand-motion gestures (via the webcam) which renders out digital sculptures in real time, inside a virtual gallery.
As agencies are increasingly responsible for product design and creation, Weiden + Kennedy London decided to sell their own product on the side: handmade jewelry. A compelling integration of data and craft, the pendants chart commodity prices using the commodities themselves as material. So now you can wear the price of gold for the price of £198.
Over the past year the digital side of life has truly started to become integrated with our every day lives and not just a separate part of it, and this seems to be a sign of the times.
