January 2010
37 posts
WatchAs of 2005, only 15 percent of the world was mapped. This slows the delivery of aid after a disaster — and hides the economic potential of unused lands and unknown roads. In this short talk, Google’s Lalitesh Katragadda demos Map Maker, a group map-making tool that people around the globe are using to map their world.
WatchCame across a brilliant new identity for another cultural institution which I think is bold, adaptable and smart. Based in Philadelphia, the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is a collective of seven grant-making initiatives dedicated to supporting local artists and heritage organizations. Originally, each initiative had its own logo, lacking any consistency with the others. Because of that,...
“People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving...”
– — Paola Antonelli
“People ignore design that ignores people.”
– — Frank Chimero
WatchLandscape architect Kate Orff marries urbanism and environmentalism, creating instances of nature among skyscrapers and concrete.
Watch“Rope In Space” is an interactive installation developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab. It allows people who are in different locations to play tug of war. You have to pull a rope which is attached to a device with a screen and camera. Your data is then sent to the other location and the other way around, so both can see how they’re doing. I guess you’ll understand after watching this video.
WatchThough we had our fair share of disappointing design conferences and design weeks in 09, we can only hope to be surprised by better ones this year. Here is a video clip of Design Indaba a conference in South Africa, which celebrates the world’s great creative thinkers. The event is not simply a conference, but a creative movement spurred by the power of ideas. Conference 2008 speakers talk about...
“Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most...”
– — Frederic Goudy
WatchAn interview with Nobumichi Tosa at Design Indaba 2009 considers Tosa’s quirky and inspired, youthful perspective made manifest in his limitless innovations. Tosa’s inventions, which he refers to as “nonsense machines”, foster his own playful mindset - a vision of what he calls a “bright peace” world.
Introducing our first new addition of 2010, DC Viewpoints will be a monthly series of articles related to commerce, culture, design and education. In dire times of an economic recession, where markets are as vulnerable as job titles and corporate pockets the world of top down bureaucratic hierarchies need to be abolished. Greed and superficiality have long overstayed its welcome and the...