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Jinsei Ginko: Watch your life on a piggy bank

21 December 2008 | DesignMonitor | No Comments

The Japanese population has one of the highest savings ratios in the world, and this Jinsei Ginko (human life bank) piggy bank helps reinforce that idea to the next generation. The Jinsei Ginko is not like other big banks you have ever seen before. For one thing, it can only take 500 yen coins ($5). [...]

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AES+F

20 December 2008 | DesignMonitor | No Comments

Russian art collective initially formed in the late 1980s; in the “Islamic Project” they explore preconceptions of the East and West visualizing concept in a stunning manner.

AES+F

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generative monsters?!?

16 December 2008 | DesignMonitor | No Comments

Czech Processing hacker Lukas Vojir has come up with a great project where you can post your own generative/interactive/scary monster done by processing. It’s surprisingly effective in its simplicity, once again reminding you that simple narrative devices are often the best.

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Evolution of game controllers

15 December 2008 | DesignMonitor | No Comments

Damien Lopez shows us a graphical map of videogames controller. This is a collection of small multiples of game controllers of the main gaming systems from the past 25 years, spanning from the Atari 2600 to the Nintendo Wii.

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We Think 2.0

14 December 2008 | DesignMonitor | No Comments

Really cool video done for the new book by Charles Leadbeater: “We Think”. The author explores the potential of the latest developments of the internet.

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