Typographic London Landmarks
August 31st, 2007 by rbanks
CR Blog � Blog Archive � Typographic London Landmarks
Archive for August, 2007
Toshio Iwai
August 31st, 2007 by rbanks
Above: Toshio Iwai with his Tenori-On digital musical instrument, due to launch in 2007.
Continuing my small series on personal heroes, I’m adding Toshio Iwai. I remember first seeing his work when my class from the RCA’s Computer Related Deign program went to the Doors of Perception conference in Amsterdam I think it was the second one, whose theme was home. This was in 1995, I think.
Toshio Iwai had an exhibition nearby of a lot of his work and I was totally blown away by it. It’s playful, creative, and usually focused on music. I remember his Musical Insects, designed while he was artist in residence at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. It’s a grid containing small bugs that walk around in a predictable pattern, and in front of which you draw colored notes to “paint” music. There’s a clear evolution from that bit of work to the one that he’s probably best known at the moment, Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS handheld gaming console.
Toshio Iwai – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Capitalism is bizarre
August 29th, 2007 by rbanks
Buying forests in order to offset them for carbon credits
Avant-Green Capitalists Trade Pollution Offsets Like Carbon Credits
“He wasn’t there to clear-cut the rain forest. In fact, soon after scoping out that land, he hopped on a plane to London where, in a matter of weeks, he raised $200 million to buy tracts of forest like the one in Borneo ? and he’s not going to raze those, either. They’re investments. The return will come from deals with companies shopping for pollution offsets or with NGOs and governments that will pay to protect the planet’s wild places ? not because they’re pretty, but because they perform a service.”
More cool bags, this time from SealLine
August 26th, 2007 by rbanks
Another cool bag manufacturer produces goods to tempt me…
SealLine Urban Gear Protection
converted water tower
August 24th, 2007 by rbanks
Beautiful conversion of a water tower into a narrow modernist marvel.Â
converted water tower, zecc architecten at materialicious
The World Without Us
August 24th, 2007 by rbanks
200 years of New York without man…
The World Without Us – Alan Weisman
More Microsoft Research multi-touch work
August 24th, 2007 by rbanks
Yet another touch-based display project went public today. This one out of our US. Research office in Redmond. LucidTouch allows interaction with an interface from behind the screen.
YouTube – LucidTouch: A See-Through Mobile Device
Walking to the shops ‘damages planet more than going by car’ – Times Online
August 17th, 2007 by rbanks
Wow. Doing the “right thing” really lS impossible !
Walking to the shops ?damages planet more than going by car? – Times Online
“The sums were done by Chris Goodall, campaigning author of How to Live a Low-Carbon Life, based on the greenhouse gases created by intensive beef production. ?Driving a typical UK car for 3 miles [4.8km] adds about 0.9 kg [2lb] of CO2 to the atmosphere,? he said, a calculation based on the Government?s official fuel emission figures. ?If you walked instead, it would use about 180 calories. You?d need about 100g of beef to replace those calories, resulting in 3.6kg of emissions, or four times as much as driving.
?The troubling fact is that taking a lot of exercise and then eating a bit more food is not good for the global atmosphere. Eating less and driving to save energy would be? better.”
The world’s best creative tool (video)
August 17th, 2007 by rbanks
You can’t argue with the fact that it’s used by a lot of people, though. . .
follow me on Twitter