links for 2008-03-16
March 16th, 2008 by rbanks
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The first RGB and COLOR search engine on the Web!
Archive for March, 2008
Green objects
March 13th, 2008 by rbanks
There’s an irony in green product design that we may just never get passed since you need to purchase new stuff, and creatively recycle/throw out the thing you’re replacing, in order to follow your ethics. Sometimes it just feels better to keep going with what you’ve got until it “naturally” comes to the end of its life, before replacing it, like waiting for all your incandescents to die before switching to CFLs.
Regardless, some of these product ideas are really nice. I like the plug socket with a pull chord for setting the length of time you get electricity. Shades of Fukasawa‘s Muji CD player in the design, but the fact that it is tied to time is cool.
Other designs I like are the notebook that flips over to become a post-it note pad after one side has been filled, and the multi-use pads of paper with rulers and speakers along their edges.
GreenHouse Effect ยป Yanko Design
links for 2008-03-12
March 12th, 2008 by rbanks
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Renderer for SketchUp. Materials. Lights etc
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FORTUNE
Design and the Elastic Mind
March 6th, 2008 by rbanks
I wish I could make it to New York to see the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at MOMA. It sounds like it allows you to see or experience many of the objects and interfaces that I’ve blogged about over the last few years, and many that I haven’t.
The website is a little dense, so the two items it includes from Socio-Digital Systems, both work by Anab Jain and Alex Taylor who work with me in Cambridge, are a little lost. The first is Domestic Gubbins, a set of four fictional “character” objects intended for the home, which have been used to test notions of what intelligence might mean in technology.
The second is Objects Incognito, which stretches how we might imagine the use of RFID tags on people and things.
links for 2008-03-01
March 1st, 2008 by rbanks
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Really refined sense of Design.
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Really great resource for hte maths behind a whole bunch of curves and surfaces.
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