“Pachube is a web service available at http://www.pachube.com that enables you to store, share & discover realtime sensor, energy and environment data from objects, devices & buildings around the world. Pachube is a convenient, secure & scalable platform that helps you connect to & build the ‘internet of things’.”
“Pachube is a little like YouTube, except that, rather than sharing videos, Pachube enables people to monitor and share real time environmental data from sensors that are connected to the internet. Pachube acts between environments, able both to capture input data (from remote sensors) and serve output data (to remote actuators). Connections can be made between any two environments, facilitating even spontaneous or previously unplanned connections. Apart from being used in physical environments, it also enables people to embed this data in web-pages, in effect to “blog” sensor data. Through the extensive use of metadata, Pachube adds value to physical interconnectivity: it’s not just about datastreams, but about the environments that make up the datastreams.”
Just a collection of the very intriguing Mathematical patterns.
For all us IxDers to read in secret geekiness!
Author: Carsten Nicolai Language: English
Release: May 2009  Price: € 39,90 / $ 60,00 / £ 35,00 Format: 18,5 x 23 cm Features: 320 pages, full colour, hardcover, incl. CD-ROM ISBN: 978-3-89955-241-6
Grid Index is the first comprehensive visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems. Based upon years of research, artist and musician Carsten Nicolai has discovered and unlocked the visual code for visual systems into a systematic equation of grids and patterns. The accompanying CD contains all of the grids and patterns featured in the publication from the simplest grids made up entirely of squares to the most complex irregular ones with infinitely unpredictable patterns of growth, as editable vector graphic data files. Use it to map out the underlying grids of any image or form and to create recurring geometrical grids in graphic design – an essential reference for designers, visual artists, architects, researchers and mathematicians.
In the design of the interactive elements of Sniff, Sara had to use visual diagramming as a way of exploring, understanding and prototyping with non-visual feedback such as sound and vibration (haptics).
toxiclibs is an independent, open source library collection for computational design tasks with Java & Processing. After 2.5 years of continuous development & refactoring, the collection consists of >14k lines of code, 124+ classes, 18 packages bundled into 7 libraries. The classes are purposefully kept fairly generic in order to maximize re-use in different contexts ranging from generative visuals, data visualization to digital fabrication, use as teaching tool and more.
This showreel is meant to provide a short overview of projects & experiments done by current users of the libraries.
“Although buttons may one day be grand-grand-parents technology, the current generation of people is still so used to pushing buttons, they are increasingly applied as skeuomorphs, meaning that they have no effect or function and are merely providing the user with a decorative feedback. Such buttons are called placebo buttons.”
This Happened is a serie of events that started in London two years ago. The talks present interesting Interaction Design projects and the process behind them. It’s kind of the TED talks of IxD! The good thing is that many of the talks are available online.
Cargo is a web publishing (CMS) and community-building platform currently in development. It powers a variety of creative communities in the fields of Education, Design, Research, and Conceptual Art. source
onedotzero is a contemporary, digital arts organisation with a remit to promote innovation across all forms of moving image and motion arts. One of its main event is happening right now in London. Many screenings, installations, talks and workshops are taking place at the British Film Institute. Here is an extended trailer featuring very impressive motion graphic talent.
The graphic identity for this year’s festival is quite interesting too in its own sense. It consists of an interactive typography contruction rendered from online feeds. It was developed by a team from Wieden+Kennedy, Karsten Schmidt and Nokia. The team decided to go with a generative model to build the brand identity for the event, quite unusual for that sort of client work.
Why do I mention all this? Mostly because the work of Karsten Schmidt is very impressive, and it happens that he will be at Umeå Institute of Design soon! The IxD2 students will have an intense Processing workshop with him for a full week in early November.
Here are some videos explaining the thing.
Some pictures of the presentation the group gave about how this years onedotzero festival identity design was developed.
