Hasta La Ideas

When sitting a red light in New York, you know the light’s soon to change when the “Don’t Walk” symbols facing traffic perpendicular to you start flashing; with enough experience you can even time it so your car launches into motion at the exact instant the green light illuminates. We’re not endorsing this as a safe practice, merely observing that this is common.

Serbian designer Damjan Stankovic has a similar concept in his Eko light, which incorporates a circular, visual countdown timer wrapped around the red light. Stankovic’s idea, though, is that rather than enable quicker green-light launches, the countdown light would serve to de-stress drivers by providing them feedback of exactly how much longer they’ll have to wait.

Mr Stankovic claimed the device would reduce stress felt by drivers and could even help the environment. He said: ‘Since you know exactly how long you have to wait you can sit back and clear your head for a while. No need to keep your foot on the gas. Relax.’

He added: ‘When you think about it, you don’t need this information counted in seconds, you just need to see the speed of the progress bar to give you an estimate of the time.’

Mr Stankovic said drivers could also turn off their engines while waiting for the green light and that the design may also make driving safer. ‘With the Eko light both drivers and pedestrians can be fully aware of how much time they have left before the light changes and that way reduce the chance for potential traffic accident,’ he said. For that reason he decided only to include a counter for the red light as the green light might encourage people to start off too quickly.

via daily mail

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India’s currency, the rupee, does not have its own symbol; it’s often abbreviated “Rs” and lacks the $ that the dollar has. This must make Indian cartoons confusing, as greedy characters with a big “R” in each eye must look like they’re more concerned with intellectual property than cash.

The problem will soon be solved, as a committee headed up by Usha Thorat, the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, has held a design competition for the symbol, receiving over 4,000 entries. They’ve just narrowed it down to the final five, and a decision on the new symbol should be reached by March of next year.

The winner will receive a certain amount of his or her own “Rs”–250,000, to be exact.

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Une animation très réussie pour le projet de fin d’année de Dan Bodenstein, Jessie Amadio, Corinne DeOrsay et Brett Angelillis à l’université de Drexel. Des illusions et une perspective voulue à la première personne sur des rendus 3D et du compositing.

Le tout est mis en scène sur une musique composée par Joseph Haydn.

Previously on Fubiz

• Box Animation
• H2oil Sequences
• Field

Designer and experimental artist Martin Ruiz de Azua’s new medal design, above, will soon hang from the necks of champions at Barcelona’s 2010 European Athletics Championships. The “minimalistic V-shaped medal…aims to reflect the simplicity, honesty and dynamism of athletics” and is just one in a long series of medals and trophies (some shown below) designed by Ruiz de Azua; our favorite is his transparent, bubble-filled circular design for the 2003 World Swimming Championships, below.

Readers may recognize Ruiz de Azua’s name from his rotomolded Flod stool from 2007/8. Click here to check out his medals, furniture and more.

via european athletics

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