Ian Fitzpatrick writes, collects and shares things here.
Some of these things have to do with brands, some of them have to do with buildings and places or machines or computers (which are, you know, machines, too). Each of them has to do with people, and the ways in which we respond to the stimuli around us.
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The above video was put together by the good people at Touch – a project based out of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design that is focused on technology that connects mobile devices to real-world objects (Near-Field Communication). The video is intended to illustrate the quiet omnipresence of wireless signals in the spaces that [...]
Read the full post...Categorized as: Notes on Things Seen, People and Devices Published Mar 11.09
Three loosely-related notes on a theme:
A colleague and I were discussing this morning the relative stagnation of snowboard design in recent years. By this we meant, of course, the structural design of the boards themselves, and not the graphics (which are often fantastic to behold). Both of us are old enough to recall the swallowtail, [...]
Categorized as: Ephemera, Notes on Things Seen Published Feb 23.09
I posted last week about Jeffrey Sachs comments regarding the potential good that will eminate from extended mobile reach in Africa.
Today, something quite similar, and altogether different, via a post from Chris Muscarella1, in which he quotes Ethan Zuckerman of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society from Mobile Tech for Social Change:
“If you pair [...]
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A blog devoted to near field studies – the interactions between people, objects and mobile devices.
Zach Hoeken and Bre Pettis run this blog, dedicated to the sharing of designs for original digital and physical devices and products, with a strong focus on digital fabrication and prototyping.
A highly-technical, and yet easy-to-follow gem of a blog from Jeff Howard focused solely on service design.
Industrial design student Kjetil Austvoll-Dahlgren posts here all sorts of found items that explore the ways in which people engage objects and technologies.
Makerbot founder and hacker-culture rock star Pettis blogs here on all manner of invention and rapid prototyping explorations and concepts.