Print is dead??

After one of my recent posts about the end of printed media I thought I would share this experimental piece of work by Simon Elvins,the piece is an interesting look into how printed media can be used in conjunction with other senses in this case your hearing. The piece works so as you move over the surface the pen interacts with the graphite so causing sounds and in some cases music.

I always like this kind or work is set between art, science and design as generally I feel this is where true innovation takes place. While not the final piece you quite easily imagine this setting minds ticking about how similar systems could be used for partially sighted people, or possibly in way finding through a city.

Triple Velvet

The future of print media???

Print Media RIP?

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Innocent

New website?

It's interesting as we work on a lot of websites both in terms of design and working hard with our clients to give the website the authenticity that it's brand requires. As such it is interesting to think about companies such as Skittles who have no foregone the traditional website totally and instead have decided to concentrate on established social media networks. A recent post by Logic + Emotion have two great diagrams to explain this, and as a lover of diagrams I thought I had to share.

Paid & Earned Media

Listen, Learn Adapt

Sao Paulo to Switzerland

I chanced upon this video from cool hunting, it was interesting for me in terms of the tactile nature of the piece and also it reminded me very much of the start from the film Helvetica.

The Future and all of it's guises

Having looked at the future in consumption and both bio and mechanical products I was really interested in how one of the biggest companies in the world saw how things might evolve. This video from Microsoft shows how they see the world in a mere ten years. I think the whole compatibility issue might be intriguing to overcome but I do like how technology almost wraps round our lives which makes it very plausible.