Microsoft’s Vision For the Future (2019)

“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

Beautiful evidence Future of Money by chriswoebken

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

The SunCat Batteries – DIY prototype Good evidencing from Knut.

Futuristic Movie Timeline (via danmeth)

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 [...]

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.”

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 [...]

Flooded London by Squint/Opera

Dunne and Raby – Evidence Dolls (via a huge set of images from the Critical Design exhibition from we-make-money-not-art)

Boelen’s idea for the exhibition stemmed from a disappointment: when the work of Guixé, Bey or Raby & Dunne is featured in a design magazine, journalists usually focus on the gadget, gimmick side of the pieces. They pick out catchy works but tend to ignore the global vision of the designers. There’s also an international [...]

It is a book of “design fictions.” By deliberately creating objects that cannot exist — because the material is not yet available, or the business plan, or the manufacturing process, or the infra- structure to support it, or even the human sensibility — it becomes possible to explore the meaning of design at a more [...]