Vodafone MayFly Advert

A concept cannot be better implemented than this.. beautifully done, with an emotional touch..

Could not stop myself from sharing this video, its a part of the vodafone campaign...

for those who missed it when i had shown it in person..

http://www.vodafonemayfly.co.uk/

Wiffiti (wifi graffiti)

http://www.wiffiti.com/txtoutloud/

A new technology called Wiffiti is,enabling people to send text messages to large flat panel displays in social venues such as cafes, bars and clubs. Wiffiti is grounded upon the premise that sending messages to a public screen rather than a private phone will resonate with both the location and its community.



Messages sent to Wiffiti screens are also visible on this web site, encouraging people to watch “the word on the street” as it unfolds. Click on the viewer tab, pick a screen, and send a txt from anywhere. Then, sit back and watch responses appear from across the country! Better yet, head over to the closest Wiffiti location to txt out loud!

The first Wiffiti screen was installed in January 2006 at Someday Café in Boston, MA, a city that now has three other Wiffiti screens. Screens are now spreading rapidly, appearing in Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Knoxville, Boulder and New York.

I tried getting a password and also tried to log in, but it does not work for international audience.

Speech recognition in Windows Vista

Found this interesting video of how Windows Vista recognizes speech inputs and executes commands.. though its kinda funny how he says "double click 'folder_name' " but its nice to see it work.I liked the way he marks the points in MSPAINT..

New Media rediscovered

Well, ...... there has been lots of experiments with capturing

the dancing photons in still images.
Here is a step forward...maybe New media maybe not!!!

check this out :)

BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype

Now this is New Media....
what say???!!

Interactive Mirrors

http://www.interactivemirror.net/

Genetic Sculpture

http://www.genomixer.com/index.html

"I aim to create a building whose construction is based on your genetic identity. A space where the invisible manifests in 3D form. Genetic information will provide the basis for this organic system, a responsive data - networked real environment. The architecture of the system is responsive to your dna, it is responsive to you, you become embedded in the DATA flow itself; you will be the system. The user, as DNA, becomes the image, the system , the sculpture, the space. The user is the interface to him/herself."

-Stanza http://www.stanza.co.uk/

Sketch Furniture

This furniture is created by drawing it with a pen in space. A 10-camera array records gestures as they draw chairs, tables, and lamps. The resulting 3-D patterns are output digitally to a laser sintering machine, which over several days produces each object by shaping and hardening 0.1-mm layers of liquid plastic. Sketch Furniture is on view and on sale (about $10,500 per piece) at Barry Friedman Gallery in New York.

Photo courtesy: Wired Magazine http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.05/play.html?pg=10

Institute for Unstable Media!

Ever heard of that ? Check it out...
http://www.v2.nl/

Keyboard without keys!!??!!

I am observing, our comunity blog is all about weblinks, weblinks, and more links....
is that all what defines "New Media"... ok slightly diverting from the topic I would like to share something I read (might be "old news" for some of you ;) ...)
Lately, I read that they have designed a "keyboard" without "keys"!!!
This is known as OrbiTouch Keyboard and looks something like this ...

Quote "Imagine a keyboard with no space bar, no letters, no numbers… no keys at all. In fact, forget the entire idea of a keyboard, as you know it, altogether. Just reach down with both hands and grab your knees (assuming you have two knees), and close your eyes. Only subtle differences exist between this sensation, and the experience of first lowering your hands and gripping the OrbiTouch Keyless Keyboard" Unquote... (more...)


Photo Courtsey:http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1112012,00.asp

Reading List from Rajesh Dahiya

slashdot.com ----- news about computers, science, technology,internet, DRM
arsTechnica.com ---- same as above, pretty much
macRumors.com ------ rumor site for upcoming Mac stuff
flashEnabled.com ----- for biggest device nerd in the world.

http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/painters.html

www.ideo.com

BBC Tech News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/default.stm

Boxes and Arrows
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/

Design is Kinky
http://www.designiskinky.com/

Digitalthread
http://digitalthread.com/

I4U News
http://www.i4u.com/

muxway
http://www.muxway.org/

RES magazine
http://www.res.com/index.res.html

Three.oh
http://www.threeoh.com/

HotWired
http://hotwired.wired.com/

TheFeature
http://www.thefeature.com/main

gaming
http://www.gamasutra.com/
and k10k, wired news, gizmodo, rhyzome

BOOKS

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Visual Function
An Introduction to Information Design
ByPaul Mijksenaar

Wolfgang Weingart: My Way to Typography
by Wolfgang Weingart

Twentieth-Century Type
by Lewis Blackwell

Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice
by Armin Hoffman

Typography
by Emil Ruder

Smile in the Mind
by David Stuart

A History of Graphic Design
by Philip B. Meggs

Or for a brief history (highly recommended)-
Graphic Design: A Concise History
by Richard Hollis (Thames & Hudson- World of Art)

Design Writing Research: Writing on Graphic Design
by Ellen Lupton, J. Abbott Miller(MUST READ)

Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture
by Jessica Helfand

Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World
by Rick Poynor

The Medium is the Massage
by Marshal Mc Luhan

The Elements of Color
by Johannes Itten (any color book by him is fine)

Envisioning Information
by Edward R. Tufte

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
by Edward R. Tufte

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
by Edward R. Tufte

Information Design
by Robert E. Jacobson (Editor), Richard Saul Wurman

Information Anxiety
by Richard Saul Wurman

Wayfinding in city(ies)
This book is in the library

The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman
This is a product designer's bible but a MUST read for a graphic designer.

Look of the Century
by Michael Tambini

Order in Space
by Keith Critchlow
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More Links

Hi Folks,

Some more flash site links. Courtesy Shweta. Cheers!

http://www.mjau-mjau.com/classic.html
http://www.xyleminteractive.com/xylem_content.html
http://www.jonesdesign.com/enterflash.html
http://opendesignz.free.fr/
http://www.designmuseum.org/
http://www.booneoakley.com/BO.html
http://www.inlusion.com/
http://www.liquidchrome.net/
http://www.juxtaflo.com/broadband/intro.htm
http://www.inphi.net/
http://www.xplodingplastix.com/
http://www.mjau-mjau.com/payzip/imapsa.html
http://www.onyros.com/content/home.asp
http://www.absolutesquare.com/
http://www.timberfish.com/main.html
http://www.nrg.be/
http://www.w3d.it/
http://www.infinityhomecollection.com/
http://www.chipotle.com/
http://www.hybride.com/
http://www.grupow.com/comex/flashV.htm
http://www.subsociety.se/
http://www.plotdev.com/splash.html
http://www.templetheory.com/
http://www.borispoljicanin.com/
http://www.labone.it/main_it.htm
http://www.ideastep.com/idea/index.html
http://www.jeedub.com/vol3/index.htm
http://www.de-facto.org/thankyou.htm
http://nfstudio.com/
http://www.twice-shy.com/
http://www.hugodesign.com/
http://www.fixionestudio.com/
http://www.queengraph.it/
http://www.paranoia.com.br/
http://www.aamna.com/main.htm
http://www.illusionnewmedia.com/INM_Journey.html
http://luc.hespel.com/
http://www.elsakawai.com/
http://www.levelvodka.com/
http://www.neave.com/
http://www.thanea.com/ars/
http://www.adamroyer.com/
http://www.permeable.org/permeable.html
http://www.air-atlantis.com/
http://www.kigot.com/
http://www.javierpinol.com/
http://www.itomi.it/
http://www.flextreme.nl/flash.html
http://no-tec.com/
http://www.phong.com/cover/chi-tree.html
http://demo.wmteam.de/work_demos/benjie/index_voll.html
http://www.b-tomic.com/index_fmx.html
http://www.unknown-stuntman.de/root.html
http://www.cartoonitalia.it/
http://dna.co.nz/
http://www.inlusion.com/
http://www.ronchan.com/
http://www.designmuseum.org/
http://www.graphictoolbox.com/
http://www.tokidoki.it/
http://www.webtronik.com/
http://www.wireframe.co.za/default1.htm
http://www.nrg.be/
http://www.ubimajor.com/seripec/flashseripec/index.html
http://www.thevoid.co.uk/
http://www.idn.cz/
http://www.firstbornmultimedia.com/flashSmall.htm
http://www.andyfoulds.co.uk/
http://www.melazeta.com/home.htm
http://www.freshpixel.com/
http://www.derbauer.de/
http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com/
http://www.wefail.com/
http://www.depart.at/
http://www.complexification.net/gallery/
http://www.uncontrol.com/
http://www.sofake.com/
http://www.driftlab.com/
http://surface.yugop.com/
http://www.flight404.com/
http://www.presstube.com/
http://www.cazal-eyewear.com/cazal.html
http://www.levitated.net/daily/levSeaThing.html
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx
http://www.billybussey.com/800.html
http://www.inphi.net/flash/home.htm
http://www.widegroup.net/
http://www.designkarma.com/designkarma-intro.html
http://www.arslan.it/ http://www.peamarte.it/01/metro.html
http://www.eadesign.it/
http://www.redxdesign.com/rxd.html
http://www.3rdedge.com/home.html
http://www.eurorscg.com/
http://www.bartleboglehegarty.com/
http://designing.aiga.org/
http://www.templar.com/
http://www.ubimajor.com/seripec/
http://www.mitchellwhitneyturnbough.com/home.html?CFID=18737&CFTOKEN=23395469
http://www.colette.fr/index.php
http://www.donniedarko.com/
http://www.beatport.com/site/index.php
http://www.communimage.ch/engl/
http://www.raku-gaki.com/
http://www.miniusa.com/crm/load_mini.jsp
http://www.kidbuilding.org/flash.html
http://www.knoll.com/a3i/launch_flash.html#
http://www.sodaplay.com/
http://www.lecielestbleu.com/puppettool/#
http://www.nobodyhere.com/
http://www.guggenheim.com/
http://theyrule.net/
http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com/
http://www.michelhenau.com/
http://www.confituur.com/site7/site.html
http://www.r2d2architecture.be/indexkies.html
http://www.aaronjasinski.com/
http://www.skaen.com/
http://www.logicweb.it/treeplanner/treeplanner.swf
http://www.storyabout.net/
http://www.connect-truth.com/index.cfm?connect=truth
http://www.fishouse.net/
http://foollee.hk.st/

Links to New Media Art

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The future is new media

How old is new..

A strange question to ask,but as we think, this moment has already become a past.
And as we design something, it no more remains new.So, a question arises that how can one think of "new media"..

I think its all about having a foresight and anticipation..

the future is new media...or as medians we should think of a "new" future..