Après le coup de coeur autour de la vision de Microsoft en 2019, voici ce concept d’interface tactile imaginé à la fois pour la maison et pour le travail. Deux exemples en situation, sur une “experience user-interface” dirigée par Dane Storrusten et conçue par INVIVIA.
Version Work
Version Home
To tie in with his guest editorship of the July issue of Wallpaper*, Peter Saville is creating an “Erotic House of Pop perversity, sexualising an entire post-modern environment and fetishising furniture, fashion and flesh alike”. The shoot is being streamed live today by SHOWStudio
Saville has teamed up with long-time collaborator Nick Knight for the shoot in which, we are told, the fetishisation of contemporary furniture will be explored, creating an ‘eroticised abode’.
When we checked in just now there didn’t seem to be any sound, which was all a bit frustrating, but you can go here for the live feed.
We’ll update if anything interesting happens…
UPDATE: 16:09 “The team are still discussing how the first shot should look”. It’s going to be a long day…
UPDATE: Actually, the Twitter updates are more interesting than watching the live feed:
This latest scenario takes place in the cool, clean, plasticised confines of Gideon’s tiled ‘Clinic’ – with Mariacarla playing the Nurse!
Alana meanwhile is clad in Beatrix Ong shoes and a fleshy latex House of Harlot dress custom-made for the Soft Furnishings shoot!
Mariacarla is in that armourial red leather Prada coat (with distinctly fetishistic Alaia boots)
Mariacarla is back, this time in vintage pink coat from Rellik, latex leggings from Atsuko Kudo and Blumarine heels.
Fran and Peter agree that it’s better for Alana to have bare feet.
Nick, Peter and Anna discuss how Alana should position herself in the next shot.
MariaCarla has removed her black Sergio Rossi heels for this shot.
We’re having a graphic Allen Jones Pop fetish moment with a glimpse of stocking against that glossy lime-green podium
etc etc
Commissionné par Philips Electronics, voici une installation interactive exploitant les technologies OLED. Intitulée “You Fade To Light” et réalisée par la société Random International et Chris O’Shea, il s’agit d’un miroir numérique interagissant avec le public.
 | It seems like everyday there is a new iPhone app. Some extremely useful, some just plain stupid, and others absolutely hilarious. This Lady Gaga app falls into the category of utterly useless, yet hilarious. Anyone who knows me knows I’m a huge fan of Lady Gaga, despite the fact she stole my hairdo (I too rock platinum blond hair with bangs). But now anyone can be- or pretend to be- the first lady of electro-pop with the “Be Like Lady Gaga” Haus of Gaga iPhone App. From your iPhone, you can choose pictures of yourself, your friends, and your dog, as well as some signature Lady Gaga graphics. You can choose from a vast array of her personal items and accessories to dress up as her! All of the graphics can be stretched out and manipulated to fit any sized photo, even that unflattering close-up that you have of your frenemy! Then you can share the pics with your friends and the rest of the world in the global online gallery. Available now for $1.99 at the Apple Apps store. |
A fascinating new book argues that today’s internet culture springs from the anti-authority, anti-objectivity outlook of the 1960s counterculture, and puts the case for people escaping from their all-consuming ‘Second Lives’.
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M-novels, M-soap operas and a musician who goes on world tour from his living room – Kirsty Allison reports from Tokyo in this special CR film on Japan’s mobile culture
More on what Kirsty saw:
M-FILM: the Pocket Films Festival
“These screens are portable, digital and easy to edit and distribute from. It’s culture in your pocket,” says Professor Masaki Fujihata of the Tokyo University of Arts, and director of the Tokyo Pocket Films Festival. He sees the medium as the message, with M-films currently serving as sketchpads for ideas where an ideal duration is under five minutes, although he predicts that future M-films “will go on to win Oscars”.
M-SOAP OPERAS: Voltage
Production company Voltage specialises in M-games and M-soap operas. Shooting for half an hour a week, Voltage breaks weekly stories down to five-minute chunks which get downloaded by young girls largely in search of romantic titillation. It claims hits of up to 10K per episode. CEO Tsuya Yuuzi likens the current era to the early gaming industry.
M-STREET ART: HP France Gallery
Shibuya’s hub of hip is this basement gallery where street artists such as Sense, Baku, Kanosue Shunsuke and Takeru Nakabayashi meet with software developers to design comedy mobile interfaces that add a little more wasabi heat to regular mobile menus. These collaborations lead to animations such as sushi belts which speed up and slow down according to levels of mobile reception. Mao Sakaguchi, curator of HP France began customising screensavers with artists several years ago, 3 is the first British company to adopt similar tactics to reach the social networking, data-loving generation, and has recently commissioned artists to create screensavers for its INQ handset.
M-LIVE: Merce Death
The name for this one man band derives from the Japanese pronunciation of Mercedes. Art director and home lover, Shingo Oono goes on world tour from his living room studio in the suburbs of Tokyo, thanks to the wonders of modern technology (mainly streaming site, Ustream.com); he layers guitars with bass and drums, broadcasting direct from home. Watch online, on phone, or join in with the World Online Jam.
M-BOOKS: M-Novelists
The Keitai Shousetsu phenomenon is particularly popular with the young, and is encouraging them to get back into books. Written and delivered on mobiles (authors Honjo Sae and Tadashi Izumi, above), with associated paperbacks, merchandise, anime and TV, this is true cross-platform culture. M-books follow viral patterns, with initial chapters often being free. Bestselling Tokyo Real has 32m hits, and paperback sales of 3m plus.
Kirsty Allison travelled to Tokyo as part of the 3snapshots.com project
In the post What we want but can’t yet have, I bemoaned how I had yet to find a decent laptop bag for business travel:
The perfect laptop bag has a pocket for everything you need to carry with you, has a comfortable shoulder strap, is made to last, is professional in appearance, and doesn’t scream I’M CARRYING A LAPTOP FOR YOU TO STEAL. This bag is so perfect that you want to name your pets after it. We have found many bags that come close to meeting these requirements, but none that is perfect.
The day after this post ran, I got an e-mail from a lovely woman at Tom Bihn bags explaining that the reason I hadn’t found the perfect laptop bag was because I hadn’t tried her company’s top-of-the-line product. Fair enough, I hadn’t tried the exact bag she was referencing in her e-mail. I told her I would take it out with me on a few trips and see how it handled. My expectations were low; I’d been let down so many times in the past that I assumed I would be let down again.
I’m not one to eagerly admit when I’m wrong, but I was. This bag is amazing. It meets my qualifications for a perfect laptop bag for business travel — and more. I’ve since taken it out four times (three of those involved air travel), and feel comfortable singing its praises.
The Checkpoint Flyer:
The best part of the bag is that you don’t have to take the laptop out of it to go through security checkpoints at the airport. You flip the pouch that holds the laptop out when you lay it on the conveyor belt, and then flip it back in after it has gone through the x-ray machine. I didn’t time the event, but Tom Bihn’s website says it should only take three seconds. The laptop pouch sits on little hinges that move it far enough away from the contents in the rest of the bag so that it meets TSA requirements:
Closeup of hinge:
There are different pouch sizes you can order based on the size of your laptop. It also has pockets for all of my cords, cables and wireless peripherals, enough space to hold two days’ worth of business casual clothing and work papers (I put these in what they call the Horizontal Freudian Slip), and has the best shoulder strap I’ve ever had on a shoulder bag (it’s springy, like a wet suit):
My only complaint is that it is obviously a laptop bag to anyone who sees it. However, it’s attractive and professional, and I can walk into any meeting with it. And, it doesn’t really scream its laptop-bag status, it says it casually, as if having a conversation with friends over a couple beers. The fabric on the bag is very sturdy and the stitching is impeccable. My bag showed zero signs of wear after my trips. Yes, it’s pricey. But, I sincerely believe you’re getting what you pay for. On trips longer than three days, I’ve put my clothes in my Zuca bag and wheeled it around with this bag resting on top.
The bag is made in Seattle and Tom Bihn, the guy with his name on the company, actually designs the bags. I was sincerely surprised to be so impressed by it. My search for a perfect laptop bag is complete. (Could I gush more? Probably.)
First two images snagged from the Tom Bihn website, the other two are mine. I drastically need a nice photo setup in my house.
When faced with a project at work that you don’t want to do, it’s easy to jump online and procrastinate. Games, YouTube videos, and Facebook can suck away hours of your life when you really should be working. I confess that I have been tempted out of doing something more productive on many occasions.
Since our employers pay us to work and not goof off, though, we have an obligation to stay focused (at least most of the time). If getting down to work is difficult for you and jumping online is your preferred method of procrastination, you should check out Freedom for the Mac.
A description from the Freedom website.
Freedom is an application that disables networking on an Apple computer for up to eight hours at a time. Freedom will free you from the distractions of the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or create. At the end of your selected offline period, Freedom re-enables your network, restoring everything as normal.
Freedom enforces freedom; a reboot is the only circumvention of the Freedom time limit you specify. The hassle of rebooting means you’re less likely to cheat, and you’ll enjoy enhanced productivity.
Have you tried Freedom? How do you keep from jumping online when you don’t feel like being productive? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
CR May issue cover, issue side. Photography: Luke Kirwan
The double, May issue of CR features nearly 100 pages of the finest work of the past year in The Annual, plus features on design for the London Olympics, advertising and YouTube, the amazing rollercoaster ride of Attik and, we hope, lots of other interesting thing too…
Cover, Annual side
The Designers Republic’s special issue steel cover for Autechre album, Quaristice, was one of our Best In Book selections. Warp and tDR have produced so much great work that this seemed a fitting endpoint for a great client/designer relationship
More spreads from The Annual
Will designers remember the London 2012 Olympics as fondly as they do those of 1968, 72 and 84? Not without an improved tendering process and a strong creative director, says Mark Sinclair
Inspiration? Rip-off opportunity? Eliza Williams looks at the effect of YouTube on advertising
The amazing rollercoaster ride of Attik
Beatrice Santiccioli colours your world – she may even have chosen the colour of your Mac
Airside is ten, but it nearly wasn’t. Gavin Lucas interviews Fred Deakin
Rick Poynor on Milton Glaser, artist
James Pallister reports from the Colophon magazine festival
Do we need 128 versions of the same typeface? David Quay responds
This month’s Monograph (for subscribers only) features Dixon Baxi designer Aporva Baxi’s collection of Nintendo Game & Watch games, shot by Jason Tozer
The May issue of CR is out on 22 April. Or you can subscribe, if you like…
Simon Egli (aka S1M) sent us a sample of his latest project, zweiPhone, which adds a notalgic twist to your iPhone. zweiPhone is a collection of stickers of old mobile phones that can be applied to the back of Apple’s ubiquitous product…
Egli’s idea, he explains, is to add some “classic design history” to the rise of the “blank and impersonal” iPhone. Plus, using a sticker of one of the more battered models, might even deter nasty types from nicking your prized possession.
More info at zweiphone.com, where you can also purchase a set of 14 stickers (for both black and white iPhones or iPod Touch devices) for $14.
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