Each year a group of young artists invited from all over the world, is dedicated, through photography, design, […]
By German artists Paule Hammer and Sebastian Gögel, at the Galerie Wohnmaschine until August 5. Via artbbq.
In the past people would store the letters they sent each other in a box and they would […]
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Tim Simpson had two very witty pieces at the RCA Summer show: Natural Deselection is an instrument that […]
Walking machine, by Jessica Thompson, is a portable audio piece designed to enable wearers to move through the […]
Diesel wall in Milan. By Nicolò Piacentino. Via weblogart.
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In late 2004, reports began to surface of CIA operatives using modified commercial aircraft for extraordinary rendition, the […]
For their Metal Phone project Jack Schultze and Matt Webb (blogo-famous for their Availabot work) have been using […]
The American Dept of Energy declassified nuclear testing videos. From 1945 to 1976. Via platform 8.
Yael Mer‘s works were one of the crowd stoppers at the RCA show. Just after the storm in […]
LocoSound is a work in progress that aims to synchronize an FM audio experience with the landscape viewed […]
Kenji Yanobe, the creator of our favorite Giant Torayan, Postapocalyptic survival gear, Cinema in The Wood, to name […]
The Meat of Tomorrow, by James King, explores the implications of an impending technology that will soon allow […]
Torrent Raiders is an arcade-style video game and a dynamic network visualization that addresses issues of domestic surveillance, […]
The Dutch advisory for the landscape asked designers to come up with a new generation wind mills. 100 […]
Ten days ago, the Design for technology addicts post generated a lot of attention. The project was sometimes […]
The Communication Art and Design department of the RCA had several good surprises such as Simon Elvins’ FM […]
The Panasonic Emotions Testing Line, by “nomadic” development designer Jiří Černický, is a conceptual SD audio-prosthesis that aims […]
Eyal Burstein has designed a series of objects he calls Progress Bar. They measure long terms goals or […]
We live in an increasingly digital world. Can interactive design inject some humanity into the technology shaping our […]
Ann de Gersem has just graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven with a collection of chocolate objects she designed […]
At the Design Product section of the RCA show i met Mathias Hahn‘s Imperfect Dolls. They were just […]
There are two events each year that i wouldn’t want to miss: one is (unsurprisingly) ars electronica, the […]
Design company Bosch & Fjord, a collaboration between the visual artists Rosan Bosch and Rune Fjord Jensen have […]
Life Writer, by Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau, consits of an old-style type writer that evokes the area […]
Pambuk Somboon and other engineers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology are building an odour recorder. Point the […]
In its third edition, art.ficial emotion 3.0, the art and technology international biennial that will take place this […]
Cities are filled up with our commercial culture. The city-dweller’s field of vision is dominated by advertisements. Architect […]
Heading to the 5th most expensive city in the world where i’ll enjoy cheap flapjacks, RFID’d pigeons, a […]
Had a great time last week in Amsterdam (always have when i’m there). I spent some time in […]
Tilman Kuntzel‘s Maintenance Measures for the SoundUnit Fan and Soundwall? is on view at the Sonambiente festival in […]
Bliss! Extracts from two of my favourite videos by William Wegman: Deodorant (1972/73) and the Spelling Lesson (1973) […]
Astroboy, by Japanese artist Araki Hiroshi. Via Campheatwole.
The way to make firearms really safe, says Hebert Meyerle, is to password-protect the ammunition itself. The German […]
Marnix de Nijs is one of my favourite artists. His works are non-pretentious and understandable by anyone. Some […]
Mexican-born Rafael Lozano-Hemmer‘s Homographies combines twisted modernist aesthetics and surveillance technology. The huge installation features 144 robotic fluorescent […]
Papel Picado (“punched paper” in Spanish) is a traditional folk art used in Mexico to create cut-out drawings […]
Sonic Bed_Shanghai plays new music which moves and vibrates for and through the bodies of an audience. This […]
Graduation show of the IDII in Milan, project number 8. Ana Camila Amorim‘s uni.me project is a mobile […]
Matthew Irvine Brown‘s Rehearsal Joypads began as a response to the marketing of entry-level music software, such as […]