Hasta La Ideas

Coup de projecteur sur les derniers projets du label visuel AntiVJ. Un mélange réussi entre live et installations design réalisées en mai 2009 pour le festival Nuits Sonores de Lyon ou encore en Corée du Sud avec Songdo : une performance audiovisuelle inattendue.

Une collaboration entre Yannick Jacquet, Joanie Lemercier, Olivier Ratsi, Romain Tardy, Thomas Vaquié et Nicolas Boritch.

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• Neurosonics Live
• Nike Mercurial Vapor Superfly II
• Tim Simmons

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pLast week scientists discovered how to make things invisible, or at least how to make them appear as such for the human eye. So far the invisibility cloak is only minute, measuring 100 microns by 30 microns – but it is fully functioning. Recreating it on a larger scale could be technically very challenging, but I guess we can assume that it will work at one point in the future – which will give great new opportunities for designers (and also great tools for hiding the ugly stuff)./p

blockquoteEuropean researchers have taken the world a step closer to fictional wizard Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak after they made an object disappear, a study published Thursday in the journal Science showed.

pScientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and Imperial College London used their cloak, made using photonic crystals with a structure resembling piles of wood, to conceal a small bump on a gold surface, they wrote in Science. em”It’s kind of like hiding a small object underneath a carpet — except this time the carpet also disappears,”/em they said. /blockquote/p

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An alarm clock, digital photo frame, portable movie display, and Skype station all in one, the iLuv IMM190 dock makes iPhone and iTouch capabilities all the more useful while keeping your beloved gadget secure and charged.

Featuring dynamic acoustic speakers, the iMM190 easily rotates horizontally or vertically to match its temporary purpose.

Available online for $90 from iLuv and elsewhere, the coordinating software downloads free from Apple’s iTunes Store.

I know that not everyone is on board with reading electronic books as a way to control over-flowing bookshelves, but if you are, you might be happy to know that Kindle software is now available for Mac.

Just like it is on the iPhone, the software is free to download. It provides easy access to Amazon’s more than 450,000 digital books. If you already have a Kindle device, you can now synchronize your account between it and your Mac. Or, instead of using a Kindle to read books digitally, you can use your Mac and avoid purchasing a Kindle completely.

My guess is that Amazon released this product in an effort to thwart a competing service that Apple might have for its iPad. I also expect the price of the Kindle to drop after the release of the iPad to be more competitive — so if you’ve been waiting to buy a Kindle, you might wait until after April 3 to see what happens.

In an age when most graphic designers choose pixels over paintbrushes, Evelin Kasikov uses cross-stitch embroidery to create images based on CMYK printing. While still a masters student at Central St. Martins, the London-based designer made her name with the technique, integrating traditional craft with modern technology to explore various perceptions of different visual messages.

The process of translating conventional halftone images by using CMYK-colored cotton threads naturally led to commissions from the likes of Wired and the New York Times Magazine.

Newer work focuses on book binding using the cross-stitch method, a project the experimental designer plans develop further in the future, along with explorations into optical illusions and moire patterns as a means of discovering new tactile techniques.

A London show, running 14-28 May 2010 with jeweler An Alleweireldt and called “Crafts Meets Music,” will highlight the duo’s individual achievements while also presenting new works.