Le studio de design graphique Relajaelcoco a imaginé avec Walk with Me ce projet de carte et guide de poche de la capitale espagnole. Des créations d’une grande qualité, utilisant pour l’occasion des couleurs vives et des éléments visuels à la fois simple et impactant, donnant encore plus envie de découvrir Madrid.
L’artiste Ed Fairburn utilise des cartes de routes, de trains et de rivières pour ensuite créer ses portraits féminins à grande échelle. Tel la sculpture d’un objet à partir d’un bloc de pierre, Fairburn utilise méticuleusement encre et crayon hachuré pour créer des portraits parmi les caractéristiques topographiques.
Nathan Yau de FlowingData a cartographié les itinéraires des coureurs de 22 villes, dont 18 aux Etats-Unis. Il s’est servi de RunKeeper pour pister les circuits des sportifs et a remarqué que les circuits se trouvaient près des parcs et de l’eau. Des cartes à découvrir, où les sportifs courent les uns sur les baskets des autres.
Paris.
Atlanta.
Boise.
Boston.
Charlotte.
Chicago.
Columbus.
Dallas.
Washington DC.
Lincoln.
London.
Los Angeles.
New York.
Miami.
Minneapolis.
Philadelphia.
Salt Lake City.
San Francisco.
Sydney.
Tokyo.
Toronto.
Venice.
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby‘s creative consultancy MAP has designed a build-your-own computer kit (+ slideshow).
London studio MAP worked with computer company Kano to create parts for the machine, designed as kit for learning about how computers work.
The kit runs on the Raspberry Pi platform – a customisable single-board computer that allows the user to add components.
MAP created a transparent case for the Raspberry Pi board, comprising two C-shaped transparent shells that clip together to secure the cable connections but leave the top open for the user to experiment with adding additional parts.
“We knew that it was important to protect the Raspberry Pi board and we were frustrated to see that most of the cases on the market actually seal the board in a box,” said MAP director Jon Marshall. “Our two-part bumper case provides protection while encouraging Kano users to experiment and make.”
A clear cover can be added over the board to protect the components or a speaker and small amplifier powered directly from the Raspberry Pi can be clipped on the top.
The kit comes as a case full of colourful parts with an instruction manual containing assembly details.
It includes a wireless keyboard, the Raspberry Pi with its customisable case, a speaker module, packaging and accessories. These elements can be used with a generic computer screen or monitor.
The parts are packaged in a bright orange box, designed to fit through a standard letterbox for easier delivery and be used to store the kit when not in use. The inner box is printed to show how the coloured wires connect to the Raspberry Pi board.
“We wanted to create the first computer that anyone can make – simple, fun, and powerful,” said Kano co-founder and head of product Alex Klein.
A Kickstarter campaign to crowd fund the project launches today.
Keep reading for more text from MAP:
Creative consultancy MAP and computer company Kano have together created a hands-on computer kit that you can make yourself. Using the well-known Raspberry Pi as its platform, users can learn and have fun while making it.
The prototype is now complete and a Kickstarter campaign will launch on 19 November. The kit costs $99 or £69. You can buy one for yourself or sponsor kits for a student, school, or institution through Kano’s not-for-profit programme, Kano Academy.
MAP worked with Kano on designing the kit and all of the components as a complete experience. MAP’s design team set out to make the Kano kit as friendly and as fun to use as Lego. The kit includes a new wireless keyboard, Raspberry Pi and a new type of customisable case, a unique speaker module, packaging and accessories.
MAP designed the Kano kit to guide users quickly and intuitively through the set-up. The packaging was designed to be kept and used as storage for the kit and its components, rather than being thrown away. A colourful outer sleeve keeps the kit protected, with the overall size optimised to fit through most letterboxes (reducing costs and making delivery easy). The inner box has a printed diagram of the cable connections to ensure a fast and easy-to-follow set-up. The components are clearly laid out to ease understanding. Reminiscent of a traditional board game, the robust inner tray keeps the components organised when you have finished playing and pack them away.
MAP designed a protective plastic case for the Raspberry Pi computer board that consists of two C-shaped bumpers in clear plastic. These snap around the board making it easy to handle and stabilising the cable connections while leaving both the top and bottom open for experimentation. There are additional clip-in covers that can be added when you want to enclose the Pi, or connect more components. For a first “making” project based on the basic kit, MAP have developed a special cover with a speaker and small amplifier that is powered directly from the Raspberry Pi.
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Matthew Picton est un artiste britannique qui compose de superbes sculptures cartographiques en papier appelées « Map Sculptures ». Ce dernier représente diverses villes, comme par exemple San Francisco ou Jérusalem, avec des papiers ayant une symbolique par rapport au lieu représenté. A découvrir dans la suite.
Le collectif Nerdworking et son équipe multidisciplinaire ont imaginé cette superbe installation mapping et ce projet dans la ville allemande de Weimar. Un superbe exercice de VJ-ing appelé « Under An Alias Mapping » sur le bâtiment Fürstenhaus en août dernier. A découvrir en vidéo dans la suite.
Focus sur l’artiste française Claire Fontaine qui a réalisé en 2011 cette superbe installation appelée « U.S.A. » composée de milliers d’allumettes de bois insérées dans un mur au Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Une véritable réussite visuelle à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
La mappa dove poter trovare ciambelle a NY…mmm ciambelle…
London Design Festival: the first project by MAP, the new studio of designers BarberOsgerby, is a digital laboratory at London’s Science Museum where visitors can interact with internet-users around the world using musical instruments and robots (+ slideshow).
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have founded MAP as an industrial design consultancy that will operate alongside their interior design company Universal Design Studio and their design studio BarberOsgerby.
The Google Web Lab was designed in collaboration with Universal Design Studio and comprises a series of physical devices that can either be operated in person at the museum, or online at chromeweblab.com.
“Web Lab offers the opportunity for visitors to be more than just spectators,” Universal Design Studio director Jason Holley told Dezeen. “Online and in-museum visitors are equally able to enjoy a dialogue with the museum; engaging, interacting and affecting the exhibition content.”
One device is a electronically-controlled orchestra (above), where different instruments are controlled by different users, while another is a data tracer that maps the sources of images and information and shows where they’ve travelled to (below).
The Sketchbots (below) are robots that photograph the faces of users and draws them on a plate of sand.
Above: photograph is by Andrew Brennan
Other devices include a virtual teleporter (below), which functions as a set of windows to locations around the world, and a computer that charts the locations of everyone who has taken part in the experiments.
“Museums worldwide struggle with trying to understand how the digital can expand their reach to engage a wider and more diverse audience,” said Holley. “Web Lab offers the possibility of making the online experience integral, not secondary. It offers new opportunities for richer experiences online and physical spaces that expand beyond the walls of the museum”
Cameras are positioned around the exhibition, so users can continue to operate the devices when the museum is closed.
The project was also completed with interactive design and engineering group Tellart and graphic designers Bibliothéque.
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Photography is by Lee Mawdsley, apart from where otherwise stated.
Here’s a lengthier description from Universal Design Studio and MAP:
Universal Design Studio and MAP collaborate with Google on exhibition that merges physical and virtual
Universal Design Studio and sister company MAP are responsible for the 3D design and architecture of a dramatic new Google exhibition. Web Lab brings the extraordinary workings of the Internet to life through a series of interactive, web-connected physical experiments, aiming to inspire the world about the Web’s possibilities and to explain its complex technological processes. Exhibition visitors can make music with people across the world and trace the physical route taken by a simple web search. The exhibition at London’s Science Museum is open to the world online at chromeweblab.com, with online visitors experiencing the exhibition day and night through 24-hour web cams installed at the museum.
Above: photograph is by Andrew Brennan
Partnering with interactive design and engineering group Tellart, Universal Design Studio and MAP together designed the exhibition environment, creating innovative architectural and design archetypes for this new kind of physical/ digital collaboration. The design approach focuses equally on the experience of the space physically and the experience of it online via web cams. Architecture and design tools help to deconstruct technology and tell the story of how digital and physical realms are connected. New archetypes were created to separate users from their familiarity with objects, reinforcing the experimental nature of the exhibition, and to ensure each experiment could be appreciated both in the museum and online.
Universal Design Studio and MAP have created an immersive lab setting in the basement of the Science Museum, a scheme that foregrounds the idea of Web Lab as an interactive place of testing and continuous experimentation.
An industrial, functional aesthetic forms the backdrop to the series of playful experiments. At the exhibition’s entrance, a centrally positioned glass and wire mesh workshop provides a highly visible ‘curated lab’ space for events, simple repairs and displays. A key feature conceptually, it represents the ‘living lab’ nature of the exhibition, where visitors are not spectators but are engaged in and part of a working space.
Above: photograph is by Andrew Brennan
Universal Design Studio and MAP were challenged to design a space that would be experienced both physically and online through ‘the eyes of the web’. In order for online visitors to easily interpret the space, architectural planes are clearly and directly articulated. The ground plane maps out the territory as a graphic surface. Bibliothèque created graphics for the rubber floor which, as well as providing an additional narrative layer to the exhibition, creates zoning and flow of movement, and adds a supportive description of each experiment’s function.
The ceiling plane consists of a bright yellow steel grid delivering the network of cables that service the experiments. Rather than be concealed, the grid articulates the physicality of the web, illustrating its data flow – the ‘life source’ of the experiments. Throughout the exhibition, cabling to experiments is intentionally exposed, emphasising this physicality.
A secondary skin of semi-transparent wire mesh lines the walls of the museum gallery, blurring the distinction between the existing building and the new installation. The space is acoustically controlled creating an optimal environment for the Universal Orchestra experiment, which provides the soundtrack to the exhibition experience.
Above: photograph is by Andrew Brennan
Working with Tellart (who prototyped the experiments) and Universal Design Studio, MAP oversaw the industrial design, look and feel of the exhibition’s five Chrome Experiments:
Universal Orchestra: An Internet-powered eight-piece robotic orchestra creating harmonious music
Sketchbots: Custom-built robots able to take photographs and then sketch them in sand
Data Tracer: A map that traces where the world’s online information is physically stored
Teleporter: A series of web-enabled periscopes through which you can instantly access the world (including a 24 hour US bakery)
Lab Tag Explorer: A real-time visualisation of all Web Lab visitors from around the world that groups and categorises participants in incredible ways
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