THE CORLISS CHAIRThe back of this chair is really unique by Studio DUNN via oliphillips
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Kids growing up in today’s era of educational tech tools have no idea how rad their learning experience is going to be. Not a clue.But from time to time, us grown-ups get something a bit more mind-stimulating than the monotone ebooks we’ve come to adopt. Like this reinterpretation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein built into an iPad app. Visually it’s gorgeous. But the part that hooked me is how they’ve made this interactive — a kind of a modern-day Choose Your Own Adventure (remember those!?).
While I love this fresh take on a classic, it does raise some interesting questions as noted in Fast Company Design:
“For better or worse, it’s a fascinating approach to a famous text that raises some huge philosophical questions: Should we redesign classic pieces of art to be explored differently in the digital era? At what point does Frankenstein cease to be Frankenstein? And is it worth changing elements if the core theme can be explored by a whole new generation?”
Only time and technology will tell.
(Source: curiositycounts)
First Logo Based on Touch-Screen Gestures.
“There’s no reason branding needs to be a mark when it can now be a gesture”
Luke Norman & Nik Adam - Visualizations of perfumes, ‘Christian Dior - Pure Poison’
(Source: andrewharlow)
Timeless design by Charles Pollock
John Baldessari believes that every young artist should know 3 things:
- Talent is cheap
- You have to be possessed, which you can’t will
- Being at the right place at the right time
Tom Waits narrates a quirky 6-minute documentary about contemporary art legend John Baldessari.
(Source: explore-blog)
As I am taking the metro in the most romantic city in Europe, Paris, I encountered the “Franklin D. Roosevelt” station, which serves lines 1 and 9. This was a particular station. Besides the modern decoration, it had an interactive metro map. I decided to try it out with my low French skills.
Being a user with not a lot of French skills, I was able to interact with it very easily. I could look where I was located, switch to the bus map, and create a route on the metro. I think this is great since this station is one of the most transit ones and there are 42 million tourists a year in Paris. Being a tourist, I found it entertaining and easy to navigate. The gestural interactions were mostly scrolling and pinching. If the user gets lost on the map, there was an accessible return button, which brings the user back to where “Franklin D. Roosevelt” station is located.
To have a successful product, it requires a deep understanding of the multiple audiences, the context, goals, needs, and how they will behave. Defining the problem and selecting the most instinctual behavioral pattern solution is essential, as well as having the right visual design. Being a designer, I could not help to think that the product must be useful to the main consumer, in this instance, multiple cultural users, who are new to Paris.
Paris
