Archives for February 2009
Lego are outdated!
17 February 2009 | DesignMonitor | No Comments
Topobo is the world’s first construction toy with kinetic memory, the ability to record and playback physical motion. Snap together Passive (static) and Active (motorized) pieces into a creation, and with a press of a button and a flick of your wrist, you can teach your creation how to dance or walk.
A limited number of [...]
Objectified: a documentary about objects
6 February 2009 | DesignMonitor | No Comments
A new documentary film from Gary Hustwit (Helvetica: the film) about our relationship to manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about industrial designers, the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a [...]
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Gilberto Esparza’s cyber creatures
2 February 2009 | DesignMonitor | No Comments
ppndr-s (pepenadores) from Scott Burnham on Vimeo.
From small mosquitos which fly around the inside of subway cars to the amazement of children, to odd creatures which move towards lamps and lightsources in the corners of buildings, Gilberto Esparza’s work opens new areas of expression in the ongoing narrative of creative interaction with the city.
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