« Through Hollow Lands » est une superbe exposition réalisée par Etta Lilienthal & Ben Zamora au Frye Art Museum à Seattle en 2012. Cette création propose aux visiteurs de s’aventurer en dessous d’un labyrinthe de près de 200 néons suspendus dans différentes configurations. A découvrir dans la suite en images.
Miguel Chevalier, en collaboration avec Trafik et le compositeur Michel Redolfi, signe une installation interactive pour le Forum des Halles de Paris. Des graphiques colorés constitués de LED habillent les murs du tunnel, faisant du passage une expérience sensorielle et musicale.
The concept of smart-watches is hot right now, and even though there are a lot of designs floating around, none have kept us from thinking “yeah… but you still need a phone.” The Limbo, however, is quite different. It seems designer Jeabyun Yeon has discovered the missing link between our transition from handheld smartphones to smart-watches. Design-wise, the idea wasn’t to stray away from anything that might be remotely phone-like, but instead to merge the benefits of both. Why choose one when you can have both?!
Designer: Jeabyun Yeon
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Like many of you, I enjoy the convenience and fun of owning a smartphone. However, I detest loud, obnoxious ring tones. It’s jarring to be in a room with someone whose phone suddenly begins blaring a Metallica riff. My iPhone shipped with several options for ring tones, and several are acceptable. But, there is still much to be desired.
I had an opportunity to review Cleartones, which are non-obnoxious and downright minimal ringtones and alert sounds for the iPhone and Android. (Thanks to Cleartones for letting me give these a try.) After a week of testing these sounds, I can safely say they’re the least annoying ringtones I’ve heard.
When I’m picking a ringtone, I’m looking for three things:
With these points in in mind, here’s what I found from Cleartones.
The company offers two sets of tones, each with three packaging options. The original set is Cleartones Classic. These are mostly electronic-sounding tones, each super brief. The one called “A Clear Tone” is literally a single, electronic “ping” that repeats every six seconds. It’s like the Cleartone developers were reading my mind when they designed this one. Others, like “Loud & Clear” sound like an old ’90’s portable phone, while “The Friendly Tone” fades in and out quickly. The “Classics” set contains 50 tones for $10. Likewise, the Classics Notifications set offers 50 sounds to use with sms, email, voicemail and other alerts. It also sells for $10. Or, you can buy the lot — 100 sounds — for $17.
The other set of sounds is called Cleartones Organic, which feature acoustic instruments exclusively, like metal bells, glass bowls, a vibraphone, and more. This is my favorite set. “Hello There Wood” is very nice, as it’s three sharp raps on a wooden block, but my favorite is “Gamelong:” two quick taps on a glass bowl that repeats every five seconds. It meets all my criteria.
Just like the Classic set, Cleartones Organics ringtones and notifications sets (50 each) are available for $10, or you can buy all 100 for $17.
I should mention another company that sells pleasant ringtones called iRingPro. Their site was recently hacked, unfortunately, but you can still access their web store. iRingPro focuses more heavily on nature sounds.
They’re all worth checking out and, in most cases, are more pleasant and uncluttered than whatever shipped with your phone. Also, if you have another favorite set of uncluttered ringtones, please share your finds with everyone in the comments.
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La Jaguar F-Type est la nouvelle voiture de sport décapotable lancée par la marque. Cette merveille de technologie utilise l’aluminium comme matériau principal et Ian Callum, le directeur du design pour la marque, argue un réel focus sur le pilote. Et de fait les commandes sont inspirées du cockpit des avions de chasse.
Still abuzz from his shared online experience art piece “We See In Every Direction,” the Swedish-born, Amsterdam-based artist Jonas Lund is launching a new project, called Art World…
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While using an iPad to read an article, designer Chi-Tai Hsu started to notice finger pain and discomfort from the constant scrolling as well as eye fatigue from having to carefully stare at the text line while repositioning the paragraph to read more. Chi’s response to this problem is the “Reading Serenely” eReader with eInk display. Like reading a bound book, the design attempts to mimic the way in which we naturally flip from page to page with finger swipes happening less frequently.
Designer: Chi-Tai Hsu
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E-David est un robot-peintre qui est capable de créer différents types de peintures. Avec 5 brosses différentes et 24 couleurs pouvant être utilisés, la machine regarde et réagit de façon indépendante en peignant et décidant d’ajouter ou non des nouveaux tracés. Une belle initiative à découvrir dans la vidéo dans la suite.
In their bid to grab attention in an increasingly cluttered product landscape, advertising firms are continuing to push into territory that was once the domain of industrial design student projects. The Coca-Cola half can and the Diet Coke Slender Vender are things we might have seen come out of a second-year ID class with a corporate sponsor: They contain client-pleasing branding, they skirt the line of what’s practical and they’re just experimental enough to make the sponsor feel like they got their money’s worth.
The latest advertising-fueled “innovation”—this one a bit more irritating than a skinny vending machine that dispenses unhealthy product—comes from BBDO Germany. They’ve experimentally attached bone-conduction audio transmitters to train windows, so that passengers who nod off and let their heads touch the glass suddenly “hear” an advertising message:
Unsurprisingly, advertising industry blogs are fawning over the “The Talking Window” that urges listeners to download mobile content from broadcaster Sky Deutschland. Meanwhile, anyone who’s ridden a New York City subway will realize no thinking person wants to touch their head to any surface on a train to hear advertising. It might be more effective to write it in the grease stain on the glass left by the previous person’s head.
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Charging your iPhone at home or the office often means the device is out of arm’s reach and chained to the nearest outlet. Realizing this, LA-based design studio Bluelounge—which has already garnered an impressive arsenal…
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