Tag Archives: digital

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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AR Ink

“I know, you’re probably sick of AR this and AR that by now, and the technology is only in its infancy, but this?”
Today I bumped into this article on…

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An Introduction To Graffiti Markup Language

Some of you may already know the Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab, a New York-based group famous for its technological approach to graffiti, expressed in…

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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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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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Crowdsourcing: The Future Of Our Cities?

The next battle for international cities might be the competition for open source-ness. Which city has the most initiatives using words like ‘crowdsourcing’, ‘city 2.0′, ‘open source’ and…

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Gaming In The City: Facades As Racing Tracks

This is just great. It looks so cool from a distance, as if those boring buildings come to life during night. Most brilliant perhaps is the fact that…

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Turning Urban Nightlife Into a Game

The New York Times and Bright report about a new, free, smartphone application by Dennis Crowley called Foursquare. Foursquare seeks to turn…

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Earthmine: Digital Street Art in Digital Cities

Earthmine is an interesting 3D mapping application that uses a Google StreetView-like environment extended with a virtual layer on the buildings upon which users can draw legal graffiti.…

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The City as a Video Game

With the Superpowerless song ‘Wasted My Time’ comes a nice videoclip using the urban environment as a Mario Bros-like game. Enjoy.

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Nerd Graffiti: Twitter Street Art

Through Rebel Art I found out about street art expressions using Twitter as inspiration. This work (location unknown) was made by an artist called Questionmark. Nice one!

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Browser House

This project by artist Rob Voerman in 2005 could almost considered a golden oldie, but it’s definitely worth showing. Voerman brought the digital to the physical in his…

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Green Surfing

The browser plugin by Get Green available for free at Inferknow helps the world reducing CO2 emission with each mouse click. Installing this Firefox extension is…

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Pastiche and the Strength of the Soft City

A city consists of a hard side and a soft side. The hard side tells us something about the physical structure of a city. Too less people realise that what…

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