Tag Archives: design

Why Not Print Buildings?

During our explorations in fresh developments in architecture we already found nifty projects, ideas and concepts that have the potential to totally reframe the production of the physical environment. Think…

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Rethinking Mobile Interfaces

Some days ago I came across an article on PSFK featuring Little World, a fresh user interface concept for mobile phones which was developed by Kevin

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Subway Bathroom

Our highly appreciated reporter in Hamburg Rudolf from Urbanshit recently wrote about a project by graphic designer and illustrator Christoph Niemann, who’s currently living…

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Mobile Bus Bars

Today I stumbled upon a nice article by Rebel Art about a wicked, unusual mobile bar in Berlin that consists of four old vans. According to…

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Book Review: Spacecraft 2, Part 2

Last Friday I paid attention to Spacecraft 2 by showcasing some of the more than 150 projects covered in the book. Under the slogan ‘more fleeting architecture…

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Book Review: Spacecraft 2

In 2007 we fell in love with Spacecraft, a fantastic book published by Gestalten which presents inspiring “projects that meet the changing spatial needs…

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Wednesday: Pecha Kucha Night Amsterdam Volume 12

Come along on Wednesday night at Mediamatic for the 12th edition of our Pecha Kucha Night Amsterdam. Show and tell, get inspired and have a great night out loaded…

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SARA: The First Mobile 3D Architecture App


Many analysts and ‘trendwatchers’ believe Augmented Reality will become the big hit of 2010, but I have some doubts. Technological determinists tend to overlook the risk…

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Be Nice To A Girl, Buy Her A Ring


After fashion design had to save Amsterdam’s Red Light District back in 2008, now it’s the jewellery designers turn. Talented jewellery makers were given cheap spaces…

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Meet Sniff The Digital Dog

In case all dogs will extinguish, interaction designers Karolina Sobecka and Jim George have a solution. They’ve created Sniff, a brilliant lifelike projection of a dog…

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Sushi-Like Capsule Hotel From Tokyo

Masaaki Hiromura and Takaaki Nakamura from Design Studio S, an agency based in Roppongi in Tokyo, made this proposal for a very exciting capsule hotel.…

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Jewellery Pops Up In A Hardware Coat

If you were to go to the Red Light District in Amsterdam, for a long time it was obvious what you would get to see. Since a few years however,…

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Terrarium, A Sonic Experience Dreamscape

Amsterdam-based interaction designers Theodore Watson and Emily Gobeille created this stunning interactive installation back in 2008, but it’s still worth posting it.

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Image-Based City Modeling

Some time ago a friend told me that when he was a young boy, his mom explained him that at the time he would be an adult, mankind…

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The IKEA Infiltration

Yesterday, I discussed the emerging social unrest in Hamburg caused by the current neoliberal city-branding campaign and the ongoing policy focus on the creative class instead taking…

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