Each year, consulting agency Grossman & Partners pulls on a wealth of research, intuition and cultural know-how to produce the Zeitguide, a briefing for the year ahead. The project is an addendum to their day job, which involves assessing cultural goings-on and making sense of them for corporations. Founder…
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Weave your way through the fair with a handy tool that fits right in your back pocket
Like many of the world’s art and design fairs, when the London Design Festival began 10 years ago, the biggest challenge was actually navigating the event itself. Always teeming with a surplus of exciting offerings from across the creative disciplines, fairs present a vast array of work under one…
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Le studio Onionskin a réalisé cette vidéo d’animation pour le morceau City Planning, des japonais de DoitScience. Très colorée, cette création maîtrisée et visuellement rafraichissante nous plonge dans un voyage au coeur d’un Tokyo aux tonalités très pop. La vidéo à découvrir dans la suite.
The forthcoming witty guide to the world of cycling called “Bike Snob” is the brainchild of NYC’s eponymous blogger. Choosing to remain anonymous, Bike Snob explains why the bicycle is truly a great invention (even the Amish use it) and takes his readers from bike basics to advanced cycling, waxing lyrical about the various types of cyclists, safety tactics, and how non-cyclists should engage with their two-wheeled friends.
With its increasing rise in popularity, this essential primer on proper bike knowledge comes just in time—especially for crowded metropolises like NYC. Bike Snob realistically dispenses advice on how to prepare for inclement weather, “getting doored,” and the perils of biking under the influence.
A true devotee, Bike Snob’s contagious outlook comes through whether dropping historical information or slapping his seal of disapproval on bikes around town. The nearly pocket-sized book (illustrated by Christopher Koelle) is available for pre-order from Chronicle Books or Amazon.
As one of the newest additions to the growing spate of crowd-sourced apps for mobile devices, Blockchalk puts user-friendly, location-based bulletin boards in the palm of users hands in over 13,000 neighborhoods worldwide.
Developed by Delicious alums Stephen Hood and Dave Baggeroer of the Institute of Design at Stanford, Blockchalk’s purpose is to restore neighborhood-specific connectivity on a more local level than the kind typically achieved by Facebook and other social-networking platforms, or even search-based classifieds listings like Craigslist.
The program, currently available for iPhone, Android and Palm Pre devices, uses GPS technology to let users post neighborhood tips, lost-and-found alerts, queries and recommendations, random musings, event announcements, social invitations and more onto location-specific digital forums from wherever they happen to be.
Because of Blockchalk’s easy-to-use, commitment-free design—they don’t require a membership or username—users can immediately leave messages or respond (“chalkback,” either publicly or privately), as well as browse posts made by individuals in other neighborhoods.
Support for Blackberry and Nokia’s devices is expected to roll out in the next few months.
Une collection de 3 installations interactives autour du sujet de thèse “Experiencing Abstract Information“ par Jochen Winker et Stefan Kuzaj à l’université de sciences appliqués de Schwäbisch Gmünd. Une approche virtuelle et différente de la gestion de données et d’informations.
Cette nouvelle édition de carte reprenant le principe du réseau de Tokyo, vient d’être mise à jour par l’équipe d’architectes d’information iA. On y retrouve notamment les français Skyrock, Dailymotion, et Le Monde. Plus de détails dans la suite.
Voir la carte en plein format, et la version plus interactive.
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