Museum of Handcraft Paper by TAO Slideshow: this cluster of asymmetric wooden huts houses a museum dedicated to the craft of paper-making in a mountainside village in rural China. Designed by Chinese studio Trace Architecture Office (TAO), the museum comprises eight timber-clad blocks connected to one another by glazed corridors. The largest of the buildings marks the museum entrance but also houses studios and accommodation for artists or other guests upstairs. The six single-storey gallery huts line the edges of the site, sandwiching a small courtyard and a two-storey tearoom in the space between. Square windows frame views of the landscape from inside the galleries, although all necessary ventilation is provided through the porous volcanic stone at the base of walls. Lengths of bamboo cover the rooftops, which all pitch in different directions. Other museums we've featured in China include a bulbous one in the Gobi desert and an icicle-shaped museum of wood. Photography is by Shu He.
eAdventure Make your presentations pop with Haiku Deck 102 Flares Twitter 48 Facebook 8 Google+ 23 LinkedIn 12 Pin It Share 2 Buffer 9 102 Flares × A few months ago, after a discussion with a friend, I came to the realization that my presentations needed to be a little more visually appealing. Microsoft PowerPoint is a great tool, but it can be a little difficult to figure out and use. My research led me to try Haiku Deck. And let me tell you this: I will never look back! Haiku Deck lets you work from your desktop and smartphone. To get started, sign up for an account. Features include the ability to: - Add public and private notes to enrich your content. - Choose the visibility of your slides with three privacy setting options (public, restricted, and private). - Embed presentations on a website or blog, and share them on social networks or by email. - Download the content in the PDF and PowerPoint formats, and export it to SlideShare. Want some examples of what you can achieve? 1) My résumé Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app
Liquidity | Desktop Patrick Stevenson-Keating is an experimental industrial designer – working largely on speculative, critical projects that deal with scientific or technological issues and ideas. You may recall in the recent December/January issue of Desktop (#289 — Futureproof) we featured one of his projects called The Quantum Paralleograph, a fascinating device which simulates the experience of users being able to glimpse into their “parallel lives” and observe their alternate realities. Patrick is now developing his first commercial product, Liquidity, which is a set of imaginative, exploratory table lamps marrying the modern material technology of conductive ink with hand blown glassware. We recently spoke with Patrick about the project, and he had this to say about its development — Inspired by the potential of BARE conductive ink, and curious to explore an alternative use for this new material, I aimed to exploit its properties in its crude liquid form.
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#HashtagBattle parametric 3d printing : Beautiful Seams | design blog experimentations in parametric 3d printing About a year ago, I got a great book on using the Kinect for art and design work : “Making Things See” by Greg Borenstein↓. This book gradually introduces working in Processing with the kinect infrared and rgb cameras, creating a point cloud in space and even tracking people and body gestures. The last chapter is dedicated to exporting STL files with a Makerbot 3d printer in mind. Taking printable 3D pictures with a kinect is actually quite simple thanks to a library for Processing called Modelbuilder made by Marius Watz as part of his residence with MakerBot Industries. Using Modelbuilder with a Kinect the Borenstein way is straightforward: get the point cloud, iterate for each point and create a triangle from this point to two other immediate points. Working from these first programs (I have a bunch of Kinect experiments I’ll show in another article), it is possible to imagine new parameters to use in order to generate shapes.
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Designing a timeless smartwatch 605inShare Jump To Close Why can't great smartwatches look like normal watches? Smartwatches, for the most part, can be divided into two categories: vague approximations of the future like the Pebble, Gear, and Gear Fit, or conventionally styled watches from companies like Citizen and Cookoo that offer far less functionality. Gábor Balogh is a freelance designer from Hungary who, like many of us, wants an attractive, watch-like watch that just happens to be smart. After posting his concept for a smartwatch on Behance, Balogh took some time to talk through his interface ideas with The Verge. Although the interface itself will be down to watch and phone companies to decide, Balogh offers up some simple but polished ideas that go very well with Triwa's design. "I like products with discreet technology." "I like products with discreet technology," explains Balogh, "when they serve me, my real needs, and make my life easier rather than simply changing my days."
No Longer Clashing, Wearable Tech Embraces Fashion Continue reading the main story Video WEARABLE electronics have been stuck in a design rut. Bulky watches, bright wristbands and Roman-gladiator-meets-the-Jetsons arm straps have been the go-to look for manufacturers like Nike and Jawbone. But these wearable gadgets — often a dull representation of function over form — are finally getting a fashion-industry makeover. Fitbit, the maker of the Fitbit One and Flex, has teamed with the designer Tory Burch to make new trackers that look like stylish jewelry. And a handful of companies are already shipping wearable electronics that look less like athletic gear and more like well-chosen accessories. I’ve spent the last two weeks wearing the Shine tracker by Misfit Wearables. Photo You can also buy accessories like a leather wristband and a necklace. Sonny Vu, Misfit’s chief executive, said his team spent months researching wearable tech to figure out the right design and found a wide range of results. Then, of course, there’s style.
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I left New York for LA because creativity requires the freedom to fail | Moby | comment I was born on 148th Street in 1965, and from then until the late 1990s it never dawned on me to live anywhere other than New York City. When I lived on 14th Street in the late 1980s, I paid $140 a month to share an apartment with a bunch of other odd and dysfunctional musicians and artists. AIDS, crack and a high murder rate kept most people away from New York back then. But even though it was a war zone, or perhaps to some extent because it was a war zone, Manhattan was still the cultural capital of the world. The gradual shift in New York's economic fortunes and mores reminds me of the boiling frog theory. During the 1990s, thanks to the cessation of the crack epidemic, New York became increasingly safer and more affluent, and less artist-friendly, but it was still the place I wanted to call home. And, to again state the obvious, New York is exclusively about success – it's success that has been fed steroids and vitamin B. I should admit I have an ulterior motive in promoting LA.