On Tuesday this week Heather Martin and Simona Maschi started teaching as members of the core faculty team of 180°ACADEMY.
Concept Makers - Qualify your company to take the leading turn
180° is a praxis oriented academy in people-centered concept making, educating organisations, (not individuals alone), on the ability to develop, design and execute on radical business concepts.
Their mission is to develop concept-making talent in large and small companies by building competencies to succeed in a global world. This is done by combining theory with praxis in a cross-disciplinary programme allowing students to understand the innovation process from an integrated whole and to understand what it takes to create concepts from a people-driven perspective.
For more information on the academy and it’s courses, please visit the 180° Academy website.
Animated infographic movie from Good Magazine, visually explaining who possesses nuclear bombs & how many, & what would happen when one would fall on New York City.
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Blast Your Food With The ‘Spice Gun’
This “spice gun” was one of our favorite entries from the recent design competition put on by designboom and macef. ‘Dining in 2015‘ challenged contestants from around the world to come up with new designs for cutlery, tableware, cookware and tools.
Created by Chinese designer Zhu Fei, the ‘spice gun‘ blasts seasoning of your choice over (and presumably into) your meal by compressing an internal airbag when the trigger is pulled.
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Animated Business Card by Chung Dha
The author explains: “This is my animated businesscard, I design after receiving a special book called magic moving images. I learned how to design myself and developed a special way to make this. The card exist of a outer sleeve with vertical raster and the animated pictures are made in a special way.”
An easy-to-build device that accurately measures the power draw of electrical appliances. the EnerJar was the winner of the Greener Gadgets competition.
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A conceptual design of a clothespin-like device that reads electric usage on any power cable it’s clipped onto.
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Edward Tufte has recently posted some critical comments about the iPhone interface. Instead of the “cartoony”, “Powerpoint slide”, “strong color”, “zebra stripe” stock market application, he proposes a solution that is solely motivated by the high-resolution screen. His alternative interface shows “6 graphics that show 14,000 numbers worth of data accurate to 2 significant digits, & in the traditional table, 24 numbers, accurate to 5 significant digits.”
In addition, he also compares 2 different weather application interfaces, complementing the “thin” but beautiful weather data list with a dynamic weather map & more detailed forecasts.
However, not everyone in the blogosphere seems to agree. do you?
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Whether it’s the hottest new technologies, Web 2.0 buzzwords or nerdy pop culture, Wired’s Geekipedia is a small, but growing A to Z resource for all things “geeky.” Users can comment on Geekipedia entries, as well as submit their own, which are then voted on by readers in a digg-style format.
Wikipedia doesn’t distinguish “need to know” from “didja know?” — and it’s lousy for browsing. That’s why we created Wired Geekipedia. Godwin’s law, Guitar Hero, Gates Foundation — you may know their definitions, but we tell you what they really mean.
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London based Troika has been commissioned by Artwise Curators to create a signature piece at the entrance of the new British Airways luxury lounges in Heathrow Terminal 5.
“In response, we created ‘Cloud’, a five meter long digital sculpture whose surface is covered with 4638 flip-dots that can be individually addressed by a computer to animate the entire skin of the sculpture. Flip-dots were conventionally used in the 70s and 80s to create signs in train-stations and airports. We were fascinated by their materiality, by the way they physically flip from one side to the other. The sound they generate is also instantly reminiscent of travel, and we therefore decided to explore their aesthetic potential in ‘Cloud’.”
The project took 8 months in development, manufacturing and installation. Troika was responsible for the concept, design, executive design and engineering, project, production and installation management, and over-viewing all the operations from start to finish.
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