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Henderson is a proprietary typeface who will never be made available to the general public.

I suspect slope of the italics is 11°.

For those who attended the Spring Summit at UID last March, you will recongnize this project from Timo Arnall‘s talk. Really cool how they show the making-of.

via BERG’s blog.

Interview with Jack Schulze that unveils some of the process and thinking behind Nearness.

What inspired you to do this experiment, creating a sort of homage to Fischli and Weiss?

The Fischli and Weiss film is obviously one of the finest instances of the “chain reaction” form. I’m particularly fond of the bumpers in the Japanese kids show Pythagora Switch. RFID is a complex and fairly abstract technology to grasp—Timo describes it as a technology that found its way from the obscure to the mundane without any real fame or apex in the public eye.

We have to be careful in how we communicate with it. There are many leaps of imagination and understanding required to grasp it and hold a useful model of how it works and what is happening, let alone see how it maps usefully and elegantly into the world around us. The familiarity of the chain reaction form, means the audience quickly grasps that the normal kinetic transfer of force in the sequence is replaced by invisible forces that work very closely together. Like invisible digital breaths between objects. Because the form was familiar, our hope was the concept of nearness without touching would be clearly understood, and I think we succeeded.

Full article here (Creativity Online).

via @timoarnall

Mass collaboration; social responsibility and good will; bottom-up decision-making.This is a really great piece about how deep the transformation we are going through is and will continue to be.

Via Experientia.

Video of many of those will be shared (soon-ish I imagine) so check this space for them.

Both IxD1 and 1xD2 banded together to help make the event run smoothly. As a thank you souvenir to the visiting speakers, we made some artifacts to help them remember their time here (if they get them past security on their flights home).

Mikko put some more photos on Picasa, here.

The future is clean, uncluttered, and full of wipe transitions. I’m waiting for the next vision: Interaction Design in the Post-Human World.

Cynicism aside, there are a lot of ideas here and it’s worth taking a look. You can watch an extended version here.

http://www.flavorleague.com/company/flavor-pug

Found via my girlfriend’s ongoing textile research…

Interesting. Very interesting. Amazing and scary. Definitely worth watching.

via Designverb

Here is an other Firefox plugin browser approach that I have not yet tried myself but the video looks interesting. In many ways, its similar to Firefox Ubiquity. If anyone tries it, let me know how it is!

I’ve recently tried this Firefox application prototype called Ubiquity and I like what I see so far. I especially use the def-function and the wiki-function. Where ever I am on the internet and I find a word that I want explained, I simply highlight it and press Option+Spacebar and Ubiquity pops up and I just write def or wiki and I get the answer without having to leave the page I’m on.

Tinker.it is offering a very nice workshop this summer about Arduino + web. The course will give an introduction to Arduino Ethernet shield and the new Arduino Ethernet. It will also cover some web APIs (Twitter, Flickr, others) that are interesting to connect to hardware like the Arduino.

July 19th-20th 2008 in London (UK)

They have great student price and you also get an Ethernet Arduino shield to keep at the end.

You can read all about it and sign up at this url: http://tinkerit.eventwax.com/h3-arduino–web

I attended to of their advanced workshops in May and I can say they are very good and professional. You will learn a lot from the Arduino’s Masters!

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