Katie Shelly
Monday Enhancement: Disappearing HardwareLots of designers are using video simulations or video prototypes to develop ideas that aren't yet possible. Some of the most fun ideas imagine a digital world in which our hardware devices shrink, dissolve, or vanish altogether. video, simulations, prototypes, futuristic, immersive, physical, virtual, data, Display, technology, hardware, devices, blocks, animation, Keiichi Matsuda, Julia Tsao |
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Monday Enhancement: Virtual BlingThe Man Who Knows Everything is the name of a new jewelry collection from London designer Hannah Martin. The collection is inspired by the Count of St. Germain, an eighteenth-century German alchemist who chased immortality. Hannah Martin, jewelry designer, jewelry, bling, virtual, augmented reality, application, Get Set in Style, Facebook app, Set in Style, Exhibition, Van Cleef & Arpels |
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Grand SlamAt our panel discussion last month about fashion, curator Dilys Blum mentioned that she likes to include catwalk videos in fashion exhibitions, since a garment in motion looks totally different from a garment on a mannequin, its folds and forms jumping to life. fashion, in motion, Matthew Donaldson, filmmaker, Soo Yeon Lee, fashion model, table tennis, ping pong, ping-pong |
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Monday Enhancement: Berlin Wall 3-DAugmented reality, or AR, is a rapidly developing area of interaction design. The point of AR is to enhance your surroundings, whether you're visiting a new city, reading a book, or shopping for groceries. It's similar to the idea of virtual reality, but instead of sweeping you out of your environment into an alternate world, AR enhances what's already around you. At the moment, ideas in AR are outpacing technology. Berlin Wall, 3D, 3-D, rendering, augmented reality, smart phone application, Hoppala Mobile Augmented Reality, Superimpose |
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Open Hardware Summit 2011: Submit!The organizers of the Open Hardware Summit are looking for people to speak and share ideas at their second annual conference. Open Hardware Summit, 2011, conference, open hardware, submit |
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SoundAffectsA collaboration between Parsons The New School for Design, Tellart, and mono, SoundAffects was a recent experiment that used the sights and sounds of NYC's Fifth Avenue to generate digital music and video. SoundAffects, experiment, collaboration, Parsons, Tellart, mono, Fifth Avenue, 5th Ave, New York City, NYC, sensors, data, digital music, digital video |
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Caroline Payson Honored by The School Art LeagueCaroline Payson, Cooper-Hewitt's Director of Education, was honored on Friday with the Charles Marshall Robertson Award, bestowed by The School Art League to arts educators who make significant contributions to students in New York City public schools. Caroline Payson, School Art League, award, arts education, New York City, public schools |
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TYPEFACETYPEFACE is an application that creates a custom font using facial recognition via your computer's Webcam. The sophisticated software even allows you to make silly faces at the camera and watch as the typeface adjusts in real time. TYPEFACE, application, custom font, facial recognition, Processing, open source |
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Critter & GuitariChris Kucinski and Owen Osborn, a.k.a. Critter & Guitari, are a Philadelphia-based design duo specializing in unusual devices for electronic music. Critter & Guitari, Chris Kucinski, Owen Osborn, electronic music, electronic instruments, devices, synesthetic, Philadelphia |
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Tangible Tuesdays: The Map BagThe Map Bag is a messenger bag that’s also a compass. Eight small vibration motors sewn into the bag discreetly inform the wearer of compass information as she travels. In other words, it lets you read a compass with your body. Map bag, messenger bag, compass, direction, microcontroller, motors, Josh Billions |
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