Intuity’s LabTalks recently featured Hamburg based URW++, our longtime partner for font development. Peter Rosenfeld and Dr. Jürgen Willrodt gave us insight in the adventure of designing a global font. The foundry’s classic Nimbus Sans now holds around 45.000 characters in 7 different weights. What a tremendous challenge to create a coherent style that meets [...]

It was a honor and pleasure to have Kurt Weidemann visiting us in December. Even more this year, as he came back bringing an interesting speech about the role of design in our society and the attitude of designers to create an positive impact. His plea for receiver-oriented communication (instead of sender oriented) is a [...]

Concept for wearable devices with haptic surface based on nanotechnology

300.000 candles for a handmade animated movie. www.famous.be

The Google timeline view “Viewzi brings all your favorite stuff together in one place in a new and highly visual way” I recently stumbled across this search service and I think it’s worth a deeper look. Browsing through its interface is a constant source of inspiration. Let’s have a look at what makes the service [...]

Early December, Martin Hesselmeier, artist and research assistant at KHM Cologne, gave us a brief and playful insight into his work, reflecting a crossover of art, design, electronics and programming. Martin presented some of his recent works, such as Saroskop, Photofeedback and Capacitive body, along with very interesting descriptions of the conceptual and technical processes [...]

  NeuroLED ist ein modulares LED Lichtbausteinsystem von CosiNOVA. Es kann zu  individuellen Beleuchtungs-Flächen zusammengeführt werden. Das System kann über JAVA beliebig angesteuert werden. Parameter die angesteuert werden können sind beispielsweise: Farbe, Helligkeit und Frequenz. Das System selbst kann als interaktive Bedien- und Funktionsoberfläche genutzt werden um die programmierten Eigenschaften der einzelnen Module wiederzugeben. Die [...]

Jason Fried, founder of 37 signals, gave an inspiring speech (Kris Jordan also provides a transcription on his blog) at the Web Expo in New York. He came up with a nice metaphor that says more about Interface and Interaction Design than a lot of the books I’ve read about these subjects. “Think of yourself [...]

“Shift Happens” – Statistic Story Telling

FLARE is a modular system to create a dynamic hull for facades or any building or wall surface. Acting like a living skin, it allows a building to express, communicate and interact with its environment. FLARE turns the building facade into a penetrable kinetic membrane, breaking with all conventions of the building surface as a [...]

Photo by Orin Optiglot Als freudiger Konsument von RSS und Atom-Feeds, bin ich überzeugt von der Macht der Content Syndication. Jedoch trifft man immer wieder auf Erstaunen, wenn man darüber berichtet, wie man mit RSS seine tägliche Dosis Nachrichten konsumiert. Sachi LeFever ging es ähnlich. Er hat sich dem Thema deswegen auf dem Common Craft [...]

A View of the Future Nokia has released a number of short videos that explore how mobile phone design may change in the next three or four years. There is a video for each of the four categories, or put more simply different lifestyle, that Nokia focuses on. The videos are not showing prototypes of [...]

Das HBO Voyeur Projekt – eine interessante Mischung aus Stummfilm und Interaktion – gewinnt in der Kategorie “TV” die Pixelawards 2007 The HBO Voyeur Project is a collection of multi-media stories that HBO has built around the theme of voyeurism.

Ist man Suche nach einer neuen Visualisierung für Prozesse, Daten etc. pp. kann man jetzt auf ein Werkzeug zurückgreifen, an das man sich dank des Chemieunterrichts eigentlich eher schmerzlich erinnert. Die Periodic Table of Visualization Methods bringt verschiedenste Methoden unter einen Hut bzw. auf eine Tafel. Eine schöne Quelle für (Via, Via)