Archive | June, 2009

Microsoft’s Vision For the Future (2019)

29 June 2009

“Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information. Beautiful Evidence is about how seeing turns into showing.” Edward Tufte: Books – Beautiful Evidence

29 June 2009

Beautiful evidence Future of Money by chriswoebken

29 June 2009

Designing the retro future. Sascha Pohflepp – The Golden Institute on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

29 June 2009

Design Simulation. Use of Photographic and Electronic Media in Design and Presentation. (via Ti.mo)

28 June 2009

The SunCat Batteries – DIY prototype Good evidencing from Knut.

25 June 2009

Futuristic Movie Timeline (via danmeth)

22 June 2009

Business 2.0: 5 hot products for the future “In summer 2003, Tester tried a different tack that became known as “artifacts from the future”: mocked-up products claiming to be from, say, 2009. You might go to an IFTF presentation and see baskets of finessed fruit that promise cognitive enhancement. Or you might wake up in [...]

22 June 2009

Some people (they are wrong) say design is about solving problems. Obviously designers do solve problems, but then so do dentists. Design is about cultural invention. Six Questions from Kicker: Jack Schulze

22 June 2009

An idea

We need to find a way of talking about visualisation and forefronting the conceptual and cultural elements of the design practice, while putting the ‘dataviz’ aspects in the background. Also need to find some way of wrapping up the visualisation, evidencing, provocation, probing, aspects of design (need a good word for that).

22 June 2009

Sometimes the filmmakers—the science fiction writers—imagine stuff before the engineers do, and there is a feedback loop between fiction and science that seems to be influencing each other, Making ‘Minority Report’ computer navigation a reality

22 June 2009

Artifacts from the Future “For years, Wired magazine has tapped a bevy of designers and artists in the tech field to craft detailed visions of futuristic objects for a monthly showcase at the close of each issue.”

22 June 2009

Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction “this is a bit of a think-piece, with examples and some insights that provide a few conclusions about why this is important as well as how it gets done. how do you entangle design, science, fact and fiction in order to create this practice [...]

22 June 2009

ARKI: Scenarios, Design fiction, Scenario Based Design Resources and reference materials

Link: ARKI: Scenarios, Design fiction, Scenario Based Design Resources and reference materials

22 June 2009

Flooded London by Squint/Opera

22 June 2009