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July 15-25, 2009
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October 18-20, 2009
NEW YORK DESIGN WEEK 2009
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MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2009
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PICTOPIA FESTIVAL 2009
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HOME AND HOUSEWARES SHOW 2009
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TRANSVERSALE 2009
Transversale 2009 is a wide range of objects and installations by artists, designers, and craftsmen exploring the boundaries where art and design meet.71 images
NEW YORK CITY TOY FAIR 2009
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IMM COLOGNE INTERNATIONAL FURNISHING SHOW
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NORTH AMERICAN INT'L AUTO SHOW '09
The 2009 North American International Auto Show focused on product, especially high efficiency and electric vehicles. 110 images
TOKYO DESIGN WEEK 2008
Check out 'Tokyo Designer's Week' anchored by the 100% Design show and 'Designtide Tokyo'195 images
LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 2008
Now in its sixth year, The London Design Festival offers an amazing array of design and celebration.213 images
BICYCLE
A 100-day Dutch event anchored by an exhibition at the Designhuis in Eindhoven.100 images
100 PERCENT DESIGN SHANGHAI
Designers Richard Hutten, Michael Young & Patrick Jouin join creative directors Tobias Wong & Aric Chen.61 images
This video is a little slow at the start but stick around, the installation at the newly renovated BMW Museum in Munich is made up of 714 metal balls that transition through a cycle of shapes typical to BMW vehicle forms. The expanded architecture and exhibition space celebrates the company's 90-year history with a strong focus on new media developed by ART+COM.
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Why don't you reverse the interface?
Currently the balls obtain there x,y,z position from a 3D wire frame which animates over time, but lets suppose you could actually interact with the bulls pulling and pushing the balls up and down and in essence manipulating the the virtual mesh with the physical mesh. For an automotive designer, you would have to build a clay buck to obtain the same results which would mean a few day's sitting in front of Autostudio pushing vertices around and then exporting this A class surface to a rapid prototype machine to carve, but if you set this 3D matrix of balls next to a scaled virtual display you could alter the surface right there and then and you wouldn't need to understand a lot of complex modeling techniques. further more you could isolate portions of the A class mesh for manipulation, which means you can scale the manipulation to as large or as small as you want. Imagine having a design review with all the stake holders and being able to play with the A class surface on the fly whilst they could all see your changes on a 3D to scale model.