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Interesting reading of Pasta&Vinegar which quotes an academic paper* dividing the widespread of (unconscious?) hacking in three categories:
Baroque, creolization, cannibalism and technology adoption
“Baroque layering: The most basic way in which users can appropriate a technology is for them to use the personalization features that are provided to them with that intent in mind. As technical objects, mobile phones come with many such affordances. These include for example the ability to change the ringtone, screen wallpaper, upload one’s phonebook, set up short-cuts for most-often called numbers, download games, and upload one’s music, photo, or video collection.
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Creolization represents a deeper transformation, a more profound form of appropriation. It refers to practices where the user recombines or reprograms elements of the technology. In this appropriation mode, by contrast with baroque layering, users are more deeply involved in changing the technology. They now explore ways to adapt the technology beyond the options that have been designed by the phone makers and service providers.
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Cannibalism: This third form of appropriation is the most extreme in the sense that it corresponds to practices where the user chooses to engage in direct conflict with the suppliers of the technology (or at least with the power relation as embodied in the technology.) Cannibalism includes modifications of the device that place the user in direct opposition with the providers’ business model, destruction of the device.“”
(via Pasta&Vinegar.)
* the academic “Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror: baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism” by Bar, Pisani and Weber can be found here.
November 14, 2008
Categories: technology
Tags: custom, design, functionality, hacking
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Yesterday, invited by Maki from Åbäke, we went to the guided tour of the Somerset House’s exhibition: Wouldn’t it be nice? / Wishful thinking in art and design which present a selection of work by Ryan Gander, Jurgen Bey, Dunne & Raby with Michael Anastassiades, Bless, Dexter Sinister, Alicia Framis, Martino Gamper, Marti Guixe, Tobias Rehberger, Superflex and Chosil Kil.
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The tour was guided by Kevin Flude ◊ and was a reflexion on what a guided tour is; from the beginning the main idea was to introduce the interaction with the audience. I was asked to act/play the designer of the guide: i had to choose a concept and design our guide accordingly; this bit was a bit unexpected and it was a rather confusing experience. After this introduction outside of the building, we started the tour and followed the exhibition’s succesion of projects. Kevin introduced us to a whole range of projects, but exhibited at another exhibition which itself too was exploring what Design is trough a specific angle, the purpose: On-Purpose ◊◊
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The experiment was really nice and completely resulting of the delightful improvisation of our wonderful guide. He is going to post a few reflexion on his own blog, following this post in which he is coming back from the tour.
It’s nice to see design reflections can also have their echoes in various other fields like organsiing tour (which is, after all, about presenting informations).
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◊ Kevin Flude is a guide with a blog: And Did Those Feet; Kevin is also closely related with a history museum: The Old Operating Theatre Museum, as well as teaching at St Martins.
◊◊ This exhibition is taking place at Arnolfini in Bristol
◊◊◊ I’m part of the show at Arnolfini — so, there is a due disclosure: Electronest has been commissioned to make an intervention on internet for the exhibition - sadly Kevin forgot to mention the project during the tour and i missed my few seconds of fame :)
November 02, 2008
Categories: art, culture, exhibition, london, offline
Tags: concept, design, distance, exhibition, guide, reflection, tour
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This post is made of a few short connection in between 3 things; all of them are linked to notions like future proof, open source and hackability.
(center picture: Nicolas Nova; left: Assembling, right: Miltos Manetas )
* This morning i’ve read a very nice post by Nicolas (Pasta & Vinegar); titled buildings as flows and process, it shows a couple of pipes in the streets of North America which are depicting the infrastructure of the building itself.
* Somehow it reminded me of that post i wrote on Assembling about ‘The beauty of designing the underlying structure’ which somehow linked a large biro drawing by Amandine, a carpet by Britta Boehne, a series of paintings by Milto Manetas and my reflections on my own practice.
* This morning i was also dwelving in R-Echos archives and came across this post (original post is here): Social Networks Evil Twin Attacks which depicts an attack made on an individual using the social networks in vogue with the web 2.0, Markus the other day was speaking about this kind of concerns and issues with services like Facebook.
October 07, 2008
Categories: designing, memory, notes, thinking loud
Tags: design, hackability, infrastructure, methodology, process, structure
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That’s a didot i’ve been working on for quite some times now on a very low intensity mode. It would be nice to get more time to be able to only work on it and push it as far as I can.
I plan a few journeys to the St Bride Library later this september in order to perfectly identify the font and maybe get some a few digital specimen/scan - the image i’m working from is not so high resolution and i miss some details. The shape of the lower case o is in the form of an egg - it is what attracted me at the very beginning - a kind of odd feeling about it. Now, it hapens I quite like it (read: a lot!), and when looking at a regular Didot, I find the regular one to be too perfectly close from a circle.
I’m actualy drawing some letters which didn’t exist in my sample - it is the case of the 0 (zero) which is designed as a kind of clin d’œil to the zero of Francois Rappo for LaPolice.
When I finish a more descent version of it, i will post an early release on Fontnest.
* Didot typeface’s name comes from the Didot family - Didot is the name of a family of French printers, punch-cutters and publishers. Through its achievements and advancements in printing, publishing and typography, the family has lent its name to typographic measurements developed by François-Ambroise Didot and the Didot typeface developed by Firmin Didot. (wikipedia about Didot Family)
** This didone typeface I’m working on has been cut by Firmin Didot (1764–1836) a little while ago… here i’m not caring really about the dazzle effect and i’m trying to stay as close from the original shape cast in metal as possible. I think to dedicate this thin version (highest contrast) to only large letter size.
*** others Didot I like notably includes Didot Elder by Francois Rappo, Ambroise by Jean-Francois Porchez
August 19, 2008
Categories: typography
Tags: design, didot, revival, typeface
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There was a point at design school when I realised that I loved drawing letterforms, so much so that I would prefer to make typefaces than become a graphic designer. I think it was when I was drawing/copying Bembo letter by letter, trying to understand how it was put together. I noticed that the arch of the ‘n’ subtly curves into into the right-hand stem—all the way down into the serif.
Type Faces, an interview with type designer Kris Sowersby | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog
August 06, 2008
Categories: typography
Tags: bembo, design, process, typography
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How do people use products, systems and environments?
How can designers influence interaction?
How can we design for sustainable behaviour?
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research interests on the integration of mobile activities (working, learning, playing) in real-world ubiquitous environments.
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note to first slide
The title, Transcendent Interactions, refers to the goal of designing and developing software with the explicit understanding that any given interaction may exist outside the applications and systems produced. People will carry their
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a few weeks ago, while in hospital, Pierre and I were talking about a system to retrieve web document for later browsing - Piere was refering to Richard Richard Stallman’s use of the mail to retrieve documents.
July 30, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, api, application, apps, architecture, art, blog, code, coding, communication, design, development, email, environment, hack, installation, interactive, mail, mobile, mobility, pattern, performance, pervasive, research, robot, sustainability, tool, urban, web
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July 25, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: aggregation, annotation, book, design, economic, electronest, experiment, graphic, magazine, participative, print, production, publisher
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work mainly on printed matter (mostly books) and on retail and custom typefaces, as well as on free interdisciplinary projects.
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work processes from content related idea into a conceptual visual language
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* a website under the form of a Google mashup mapping book projects (include a ruler / size issue)
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a nice website showcasing colourful projects - nice use of drag and drop…
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Mosso scales automatically and additional capacity kicks in as you need it. There’s no hardware to buy and you only pay for what you use.
July 14, 2008
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Tags: berlin, book, color, design, editorial, graphic, hosting, map, munich, netherland, typography
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July 06, 2008
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S’ajoute la dégénerescence comme épreuve du temps et les erreurs qui en découlent.Chaque livre est photocopié à partir du dernier et les erreurs ne peuvent être corrigées.
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Makin offered me the book; I like dthe vidual index at the end - see: http://anti-chambre.net/users/jerome/none/?p=221
July 01, 2008
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Tags: architecture, books, Clothing, culture, design, fashion, fr, gallery, magazine, publishing, shop, store, studio
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Reyner Banham (1922-88) was one of the most influential writers on architecture, design, and popular culture from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s.
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a prolific architectural critic and writer best known for his 1960 theoretical treatise “Theory and Design in the First Machine Age”, and his 1971 book “Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies”
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Reyner Banham most famous book: Theory and Design in the First Machine Age - (still in print with The MIT Press after forty years), was central to the overhaul of Modernism, and it gave Futurism and Expressionism credibility amid the dynamism and change o
June 26, 2008
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Tags: design, history, machine, production, theory
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SoundManager 2 lets web developers load, play and control sounds via Javascript. SM2 is an attempt at providing the sound API which Javascript has been missing. It’s a library which wraps and extends Flash’s sound capabilities, bringing cross-platform
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June 24, 2008
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Tags: art, book, bookshop, design, javascript, london, shoreditch, sound, texttospeech
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Misericordia is a team of seamstresses who have been working with their hands, spirit and heart since 2002 in Lima - Peru. The hope and the will are within us. To live means to fight. We sew to learn and to discover another World. No longer Utopia.
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grannies to stitch you socks the old-swiss-way.
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June 14, 2008
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Tags: business, clothes, design, diy, furniture, history, market, produce, production
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a portfolio made on the basis of a “see trough website” - using a simple iframe and a short list of links to give acces to some of the things we do.
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the given demonstration pages seem to bring web design in a complete new light: back to strong grid, layout and typography - i feel like there’s plenty of interesting things for page, information and hierarchy design to come with this framework.
June 08, 2008
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Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, css, design, electronest, framework, layout, see_trough, simple, typography, website
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37signals: When designing a UI we usually go right from a quick paper sketch to HTML/CSS. We skip the static Photoshop mockup.
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a bog for a fascination for the Ampersand glyph, scribal abbreviation for and. Derived from the Latin word “et.”
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system wide use of javascript via OSA; replacing Applescript - sounds good. it would be nice to even plug jQuery on top of that
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multidimensionnal array sorting in one go. look at the script, post #4
June 04, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: ampersand, applescript, array, css, culture, design, development, graphic, graphicdesign, html, javascript, mac, methodology, multidimensionnal, paper, php, process, punctuation, sort, typography, webdesign
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how to photoshop graffitis on a wall - a must read
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China - carbon emissions in the light of western consumption.
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TapeDeck is a powerful and fun new audio recorder for Mac OS X Leopard. It léooks incredibly usefull and lets you consider recording audio and taking note in a new (mind blowing) way: brainstorm, talks and conferences, …
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The blog of Dominic Busby
June 02, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: application, audio, carbon, cassette, design, economic, funny, graphic, installation, lcc, osx, photography, photoshop, player, podcast, poster, recorder, representation, sound, toys, tutorial, visualisation, web
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An interview of Christopher Burke; the discussion opens with a consideration of the work of Paul Renner, and especially his typeface Futura, then moves on to Christopher Burke’s own work as a type designer.
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the foundry retraced the original alternate characters of the Renner’s early sketches for the Futura.
May 29, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: api, design, dev, firebug, futura, history, javascript, log, typography
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May 26, 2008
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Tags: art, design, images, netart, webdesign
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May 21, 2008
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Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, art, calendar, design, exhibition, gallery, twitter, uk
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May 17, 2008
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