Core pals
HumanBeans are exhibiting at the NeuroTitan gallery in Berlin through September 1. The exhibit, titled
SPAM, features fictional and provocative products conceived by HumanBeans between 2001 and today.
The folks at Endadget (an edgy, clever, over-the-top tech toy blog) have launched an
iMac G5 design contest in advance of the Apple Expo coming up in Paris.
A
strange documentary about one man's efforts to get to Oulu to compete. It seemed very faked in some parts, like a "Bob Roberts"-flick passing itself off as a legit doc.
For those about to rock: next week is the
Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland.
Mobile PC is having a
design contest - yes, you could see your submission alongside those of Professional Designers. Whoah.
More design-y Dilbert
here and
here
CAD Modelling Glove converts hand motions into CAD files, allowing designers to turn sculpted clay forms into 3D models.
thanks to Dylan Horvath for the tip.
SIGGRAPH speech by Bruce Sterling (our IDSA Western Conf. keynote)
The lines between Artifacts, Machines, Products and Gizmos aren't mechanical. They're historical. The differences between them are found in the material cultures they make possible. The kind of society they produce and the kind of human being that is necessary to make them and use them. Artifacts are made and used by hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers. Machines are made and used by customers. in an industrial society. Products are made and used by consumers in a military-industrial complex. While Gizmos are made and used by end-users in whatever today is a New World Disorde - a Terrorism-Entertainment Complex - our own brief interregnum.
A
cartoon critique of the Art Establishment by Peter Bagge. It ends urging art-seekers to look closer at the products around them.
All product designers can cut out
today's Dilbert and place it on their cubicle entranceway. Give your colleagues something to snicker about.
PHaT - "
the most masculine chair in the world." If you're into that sort of thing, PHaT is "45 kilos of steel and 21 padded leather pillows are ready to drive girlish furniture out of the room."
Design Engaged will be a chance for designers to gather to discuss current challenges and opportunities. What do new technologies like pervasive computing offer designers? What obstacles do you find in coming up with innovative ideas, and how do you collaborate with others to make those ideas happen? What do fields like architecture or software development have to offer design, and vice versa"?
