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October 07, 2008
This morning discussing with Amandine and Anna we came across a couple of buildings which had a mini version of them beforhand their construction - either trough a natural research process or simply because investors were too scared of the novelty the building could represent and the consequent impact on the landscape…
The Barbican, by suburbanslice
the Golden Lane estate, by stevecadman
Barbican & the Golden Lane estate
Barbican is a well known huge and massive architecture programme in the center of London; after World War 2, a large bombed area has been converted into this utopian project which was reconsidering the needs of modern humans in a urban environnement. Both Barbican and Golden Lane Estate were designed by architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, with obvious Corbusian influences. Golden Lane is of course the mini version (somehow) of the Barbican and came earlier (1957, 1969).
Trevelyan by Jamie Barras
Keeling house by joseph beuys hat
Keeling House & Trevelyan House
Denys Lasdun designed both of them; they were built between 1957 and 1959. Keeling house is a 4 blocks of maisonettes arranged around a central service tower. In 1952, a rougher similar construction has been built, apparently more dedicated to the working class.
Balfron Tower, by Richard Parmiter
Trellick Tower, by Cristiano Betta
Trellick Tower & Balfron Tower
I’ve been introduced to those two by Ryan Gander trough his amazing loose association lectures series. When confronted with the volume of the tower designed by Ernõ Goldfinger, investors were scared this would be like a scar in the landscape (London does not have a lot of skyscraper, especially atthat time). They managed to get a smaller version built in East London, to get an impression of how it would be build.
* Process wise:
This pre production makes me think that for each of the website i am delivering there would be one, officially working, to test case the pertinence of the design and concpets as well as the solidity of the code.
* More information on the building:
Balfron Tower
Trelick Tower
Keeling House
Golden Lane Estate
Barbican Estate
Tags: architecture, process, research, try out | Comments (0)
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July 30, 2008
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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.
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 | Comments (0)
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July 01, 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
Tags: architecture, books, Clothing, culture, design, fashion, fr, gallery, magazine, publishing, shop, store, studio | Comments (0)
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March 20, 2008
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R-Echos: how to create embroidery designs using images on your computer screen.
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R-Echos: Speaking at the first TED Conference in 1984, Nicholas Negroponte waxes prophetic on the converging fields of technology, entertainment and design.
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R-Echos: for some time, most Walker websites have been without an important branding element: a favicon.
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R-Echos: It is a simple task to control small electrical signals which are carried by the wires attached to the printer port of IBM-compatible computers.
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R-Echos: 5 years ago, the concept of working from any location seemed alien to most employers, but in todays rapidly connected world, it’s more common to find cutting edge researchers working without the constraints of 9-5 and the office life
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R-Echos: a great visualization of what the candidates are talking about
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R-Echos: An information visualization conference, the See Conference, is being held in Wiesbaden, Germany, on April 19th
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R-Echos: image of the poster found on ManyStuff
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R-Echos: Issue Magazine, another new web-based publication looking at the changing world of publishing and design
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R-Echos Custom turntables: ”
Mike Disher makes custom acrylic turntables - About 5 ye
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R-Echos Arthur C. Clarke 1917-2008, Sci-Fi Author & Space Visionary: ”
Renown science
Tags: analysis, anayltics, animation, architecture, archive, author, blog, blogging, bones, boxes, branding, candidates, chaumont, clothes, color, conference, container, custom, dead, design, details, display, diy, drawing, economy, embroidery, etd, fab, favico, flux, furniture, future, generative, graphicdesign, GUI, identity, installation, interraction, magazine, methodology, mobility, motion, museum, pipe, player, poster, printer, process, publishing, scienefiction, screen, sculpture, signage, stream, structure, tangible, technology, topic, touch, typography, us, visualisation, vynil, water, webdesign, website, writer, writing, zeitgeist | Comments (0)
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February 25, 2008
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Tarantino and Avary decided to write a short, on the theory that it would be easier to get made than a feature… the film became a trilogy, with one section by Tarantino, one by Avary, and one by a third director who never materialized. Each eventually e
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Del.icio.us API / help. This document and the APIs herein are subject to change at any time.
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article describing a simple use of the delicious API on a mail server
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tracking software for website statistices - tehy pretty much evolved form the evrsion i use to know a couple of years back… it seems like they developped quite neat services and smart tools
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enables you to have your posts submitted automatically to social bookmarking sites like delicio.us
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a nice summary of a few features and softwares to betterise your experience with delicious bookmarks
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this gallery has both onsite and online exhibition
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an overview of the reputation economy, using delicious - the via: tag to give credits; it’s weird this system could not be automatically generated when you use the “copy this” functions.
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a kind of GTD tricks using GMail as the main tool - it’s nice to see good old emails back on tracks in the middle of RSS. it’s a “now old” media on the internet and pretty much everybody feels comfortable with it. A bit of automation oculd bring emails to
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a unique flexible identity system which help to login multiple online services and centralise information regarding personal electronic presence
Tags: advertisement, aggregator, analytics, api, architecture, art, auckland, automation, body, book, business, car, code, coding, color, community, connection, delicious, dev, development, digital, documentation, electronic_presence, email, fashion, filter, gallery, get, gmail, google, gtd, ideas, identity, interface, internet, lifehack, login, management, marketing, microformats, monitoring, movie, network, networking, nz, optimization, organisation, photography, picture, plugin, post, privacy, process, productivity, protocol, reputation, RSS, r_echos, service, shoes, social, software, statistics, submission, tagging, tip, tool, tracking, traffic, twitter, url, vehicle, visualization, webdev, webservice, wikipedia, wireless, wordpress, workflow, __ofs | Comments (0)
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February 12, 2008
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seems to be a nice alternative to image backgrounds to produce gradient
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analyzes your music collection and creates a short audio signature to represent who you are and what you listen to - by Jason Freeman
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nice indication of the windows size from the start; the content does not need any introduction anymore.
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Thisandagain is the online personal space of Andrew Sliwinski, a User Experience Strategist, Designer, and Technologist living and working near Detroit, MI.
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nice interface which use black rectangle; it would be nice if the size were relative
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Peter Saville did a very nice set of boxes for audio cassettes back in the days; it looks like book binding
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Brad Troemel did a serie of picture, where the subject is reframed
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Easily view images in a directory tree—without actually clicking through to every image
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An architectural icon; Battersea Power Station in London is a defunct power station that was the first in a series of large coal-fired electrical generating facilities
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A bastion of the architectural establishment in early 20th century Britain
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a group on flickr collecting pictures from architect Gilbert Scott
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some nice types and book covers
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Damien Hirst at the launch of ‘In the darkest hour there may be light’, his personal art collection at the Serpentine Gallery
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I traded one red paperclip for a house.
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, analysis, architecture, art, audio, blog, books, cassette, code, collection, color, creative, css, design, editorial, electronic_presence, exchange, extensions, filemanager, filesystem, firefox, flickr, gradient, graphicdesign, history, identity, image, image_on_the_fly, interface, itunes, london, marketing, meme, music, netart, netherlands, photography, picture, plugin, portfolio, statistics, trade, typography, uk, urban, usability, web, webdesign | Comments (0)
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February 03, 2008
CountPosts v 1.0 - WordPress Plugin - Đukijev blog count visits on wp for each post (not when loged-in as admin) (tags: plugin wordpress statistics)
Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress (tags: wordpress xml google sitemaps)
Street fashion photos from street style blogs. Feedshion collect the best street fashion photos from all the greatest street style blogs for your viewing pleasure. (tags: blog clothes fashion feed)
r-echos » Blog Archive » Would-be skyscraper structure (tags: architecture volume preview)
Latest Post from each Category plugin for WordPress · Dagon Design show the latest post for each category (tags: wordpress plugin category)
r-echos » Beta version A new interface for R-Echos, with featured republished articles, most read articles and a visual zaitgeist (tags: internal interface beta r_echos visualisation project info_hub)
YouTube - The Singing, Ringing Tree Blowing wind is making music (tags: art music sculpture outdoor)
Objets livres [design éditorial] The printed thing considered as object. In french (tags: accessibility book design typography edition editorial_design)
robotlab - art | installation | research Some very nice pictures of a factory’s robot used to draw portrait: the performance enlighten proprerties of both universe: automated production and art of portraiture (tags: robot drawing portrait representation art performance)
Numéro deux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ‘Am I a landscape or a factory’ Godard, via Amandine, about the industrial robot which draw portraits (tags: godard quote movie relationship)
DesignNotes by Michael Surtees » 3 Sites That Had Me Thinking a nice way of introducting links and thoughts - the selected websites are very interesting too. (tags: site link blog)
Tags: accessibility, architecture, art, beta, blog, book, category, clothes, design, drawing, edition, editorial_design, fashion, feed, godard, google, info_hub, interface, internal, link, movie, music, outdoor, performance, plugin, portrait, preview, project, quote, relationship, representation, robot, r_echos, sculpture, site, sitemaps, statistics, typography, visualisation, volume, wordpress, xml | Comments (0)
