François Brument, vases #44

Computational Design and Data Visualization getting physical: here some vases shaped on the voice data of their creator.

More infos:
• http://www.maisonapart.com/edito/amenager-decorer/idees-deco/un-bataillon-de-designers-en-mission-d-exploration-p3-2849.php
• http://www.via.fr/fr/evenements_parisdesignenmutation.asp

Learn Processing in French

Learning Processing in French (openSource)

Print it | http://bit.ly/b8k6bk

Browse it | http://bit.ly/bWZOrh 

Download it | http://bit.ly/c61Ovw
By: Adama Dembele, Julien Gachadoat, Elisa Godoy de Castro Guerra, Adam Hyde, Alexandre Quessy, Horia Cosmin Samoïla,Douglas Edric Stanley, Lionel Tardy

FLOSS Manuals is a collection of manuals that explain how to install and use a range of free and open source software. 

More info via Douglas Edrick Stanley aka abstractMachine.

Public Twitter Booth

At first glance: a funny idea,

Finally: an interesting mix of two ages showing a social common use evolution.

This visual is photoshop fake found on a russian blog.

I don't really know what is that machine supposed to be used for but now it looks like an “emergency tweet booth”. It's funny as twitter is supposed to be something of the instant and such a device is definitely not, moreover by the time such a device could exist every twitter user enough addicted to feel the need to use these “emergency boothes” would have a smartPhone. 

But in science fiction: an other parallel reality without smartPhones this way of using twitter would become interesting, or in a country with no smartPhones where the mobile Internet would not be developed…

Ok stop dreaming :)

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Vintage adverts youtube, skype, twitter, facebook

It has been a while that it's on the Internet but I still like these visuals.

Advertising Agency: Moma, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Creative Director: Rodolfo Sampaio
Art Director: Marco Martins
Copywriter: Adriano Matos
Illustrator: 6B Studio
Published: July 2010


Via: Ibelieveinads

Twinkle = Augmented reality + Pico projector

Augmented reality at last out of a screen!

Demonstrations and applications of AR became redondant and  boring sometime. But this prototype sounds good. 

You no longer need to look through a virtual window (an iPhone screen for example) but you video project the layer of augmented reality on the environnement surrounding you. And as says the guys who developed it (from Tokyo University and Keio University), the final aim is to have that technology on a mobile phone device. A lot of design ideas are already  born in my head :D

(Via Engadget)

MAPPING STEREOTYPE

Nice graphic design and illustration work from Yanko Tsvetkov, check his hilarious stereotype europe maps!

That's sad! Digital books copying PopupBooks

I bilieve in interactive books

On usual digital format : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gew68Qj5kxw

On experimental format : http://www.volumique.com/

And I believe in paper books 

as traditional nice designed books : Penguin & Pelican editions on flickR – Pelican covers archives (a longer article on the Penguin Edition example)

and wonderful "objects" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnZr0wiG1Hg

But Digital books copying Popup Books… (on an iPad) I find that dramatically sad! 

http://youtu.be/9mLR1F4ISmI

Paul Rand Retrospective on Vimeo

Paul Rand, the legendary american graphic designer has a great Retrospective on vimeo… check it out !

http://www.paul-rand.com/

Paul Rand on Wikipedia

Google image for Paul Rand

Via @djenn

Top 5 TED Videos

http://freestylemind.com/top-5-ted-videos

http://bit.ly/dCp2vg 

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http://bit.ly/c6tPKO

http://bit.ly/dbEm82

http://bit.ly/95d8ZR

Enlarge your P… ixel

While the square #pixel inventor (Russel Kirsch) tries to smooth things out http://bit.ly/aJuPLF others did in 2009 with this #software http://bit.ly/barVeA !