designswarm thoughts

links for 2008-02-13

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

BURAK ARIKAN

Lovely mapping and data viz work from this ex MIT student.

(tags: data visualization maps)

Friday, February 8th, 2008

CharmingBurka

I love the UDK projects, this one is really interesting and not as crazy an idea as it sounds.

(tags: religion interaction design)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Mobileshadows.

For some reason I really like these, simple, pretty and light.

(tags: product design)
Station C » Intro

Great new co-working space in Montreal founded by my friend Patrick.

(tags: community work2.0)

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Pecha Kucha Night Brussels

Will be speaking at this, so watch out Brussels and if you’re in town, ping me!

(tags: conference belgium)
CitizenGardenEpisode4

Podcast of Matt talking about his work on Dopplr and the SGFoo event. Really interesting conversation about the technological assumptions we make about relationships on line.

(tags: travel2.0 web2.0 conference)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Live|Work

Finally a nice and new shiny design for the pioneers in service design in the UK

(tags: service design UK)
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (2003)

Really interesting documentary, covers not surprisingly, a lot of ground around the perception of machines and autonomy

(tags: internetofthings games history)
Richard The

Hire this man, he’s looking for something to do after working at Sagmeister… pure talent and a great guy.

(tags: interaction design graphic)
ETech 2008: Kitchen Hack Lab: Food Hacking for Techies

If I had the money to attend any conference at all, I would see this.

(tags: conference USA technology innovation)
ETech 2008: Making Things Talk Tutorial

If I had the money to attend any conference at all, I would see this.

(tags: conference arduino education USA innovation technology)
Flickr: The MICROSOFT: KEEP YOUR EVlL GRUBBY HANDS OFF OF OUR FLICKR Pool

This is really highlarious. First thing I thought actually when this was announced was that the Mac kids using Flickr would be annoyed as hell… whatcha gonna do?

(tags: web2.0 culture)
Shrove Tuesday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Another strange addition to my life in the UK…very entertaining: “It is thought that pancakes are associated to this celebration because of the solar symbolism of their shape and color.”

(tags: religion UK food)

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Service by Design | Birmingham City University (via 31volts.nl)

Nice to see endeavours spreading around the UK in the world of service design.

(tags: service design UK)

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Doors of Perception weblog: Should design schools be closed down?

Absolutely spot on analysis of what design’s role should be at the moment from John Thackara.

(tags: design sustainability Doors)
The Slow Life Picks Up Speed - New York Times

Slow food to slow architecture to slow design to slow life perhaps. There just might be hope.

(tags: sustainability design)
Physical Interaction Lab

Nice work here, with the currently popular web-data table.

(tags: interaction design Sweden)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

BBC - BBC TWO - WHATS ON

Second Life and relationships… never thought they’d make it to tv.

(tags: secondlife tv)

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Cory Burr

Really great prototyping and fabrication work here

(tags: london product design architecture)
SomethingLabs

My office at Tinker is here, if you’re in London and looking for a desk, join us!

(tags: interaction design office london)

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Together for London | Community and education | Transport for London

meh, from what I’ve experience so far on Hackney buses, this sort of campaign is not going to have much impact. Adults aren’t usually the ones being obnoxious, but the younger generation.

(tags: transportation london social)