Moritz Waldemeyer was interviewed for this weeks BBC Culture Show, giving a tour of his work in his studio.
It was available on the UK only iPlayer, but you can now watch on youtube here.
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Dezeen has posted some new work from Pixelsumo favourite Moritz Waldemeyer. This time he has embedded an LED display into the costumes of rock band OK Go.
“When the band appears on stage, LED lights embedded in their jackets run through a sequence that makes up the letters O,K,G,O – like a Vegas slot-machine scrolling […]

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Usman Haque has been commissioned to create Evoke for the Illuminating York festival. You can see the work from on Fri 26 Oct until Sat 3 Nov, from 6-11pm. From the website…
“Evoke is a massive animated 80,000 lumen projection, which will light up the facade of York Minster. The facade is brought […]

Looking through the site of Hector Serrano from a previous post, I found this collaboration with Lola Llorca…
“Manolo Is Gonna Have Fun takes fun to the extreme with common objects. Objects that combine normal function and are amusing. Manolo´s products are inspired by toys and the actions of playing games. Manolo is gonna have fun […]

At our first This happened event, Moritz Waldemeyer presented his amazing kinetic robotic dresses in collaboration with Hussein Chalayan. From an engineering background, his work is not only extremly well built technically, but also has become very elegant, subtle and in a class of its own.
So last week I was keen to go to […]

More on playful lighting, this time its Superpatata, a squishy light from Hector Serrano for Droog Design. Created from latex, salt and a fluorescent bulb, Serrano explains “I wanted to let the user control the intensity of the light just by touching it. As you squeeze the light, the bulb moves around in the […]

I saw these lamps in May during the Milan design festival (my photos) but haven’t posted them until now. Both are created by Progetto25zero1…
Pupa is a lamp that you have to caress to turn on and off. There are no switches, instead you have to gently stroke the fur inside. It really had […]

The Wind-Up Bedside Lamp from Yuko Taguchi :
“This is for people who can’t sleep without the light. Also, people who read in the bed sometimes forget to turn off the light. The key functions as a switch and a timer. Wind-up to turn the light on before you go to bed. The light will stay […]

Lately I have been collecting lots of examples of household lights that require further interaction & alternative playful input from its users rather than simple on/off. I’m now posting the collection, starting with the Reveal Light by graduating designer Demelza Hill.
“The light requires the user to interact with the form by zipping the spiral […]

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On Saturday I went to see Daft Punk headlining at the Wireless Festival in Hyde Park London. Why do I blog this? The live show is simply stunning, an audio visual treat.
We were extremely squashed in down the very front, eagerly anticipating the curtain to be drawn back. After about 30 […]

As mentioned in a previous post, the documentation of my work at Moving Brands is now online.
An audio responsive installation for the launch of Muon, new speakers from Kef and Ross Lovegrove. Launched at the National Museum of Science and Technology (Leonardo da Vinci), during Salone del Mobile in Milan.
Created in Processing for a […]

Most persistence of vision projects I have seen involve moving a strip of leds fast enough that our eye perceives it to be an image. Make magazine has covered many projects of this type.
Jens Wunderling, a student of the Digital Media Class at UDK Berlin, has created at second glance, an alternative approach to […]

I’ve just got back from a few days in Milan for the intensive design week. I’m never going to have time to write about any of it, the good or the bad, so instead here are my photos. There is plenty of other blog coverage if you are interested.
I will write about why […]

Yesterday I went to the Luminaries and Visionaries exhibition at Kinetica Museum in London, open until 11th March. Here are my photos.
Of the work on display, my favorite was the 3d zoetrope by Gregory Barsamian, and the Ambiguous Icons led works of Jim Campbell. Artists also include Sam Buxton, Rob & Nick Carter, […]

Semitransparent Design is a company based in Japan, a talented bunch of artists and designers, consisting of members Ryoji Tanaka, Toshiyuki Sugai, Yusuke Shibata and Hiroshi Sato. I first became aware of their work when I wrote about Motion Wall from Nanika (read post). Semitransparent created Snow Wishes for the same interactive interiors […]

[updated] here is a video

(photos above by John Adrian)
On Friday night I went to the opening of Volume at the V&A Museum, part of the Playstation Season of Culture. Here are my photos.
Created by United Visual Artists and one point six (production company set up by Robert Del Naja [alias 3D] of Massive Attack and […]

London based artist Conrad Shawcross creates these fantastic kinetic sculptures that draw inspiration from philosophy and scientific theories.
Shown above is ‘Loop System Quintet‘ (2005):
“Each of the five oak machines in Loop System Quintet - connected by a single drive-shaft - draws a different ‘knot’ of light in space, predetermined by the ratio of the cogs […]

Last week in London, Philips held an event to preview new potential products ‘that demonstrate its sense and simplicity brand positioning’. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it to the event, but below are a few products that I find interesting. Many of these follow approaches that I have seen from interaction designers and students […]

SoniColumn, created by Jin-Yo Mok, is an extension of The MusicBox Project. In the first project, users could compose a sound using a mouse and grid-like score. In SolniColumn you turn each note on by running your hand over it and around the column.
SoniColumn is an interactive sound installation that can be played by a […]

Daniel Shiffman has been hacking a Color Kinetics LED tile and documenting the process.
By packet sniffing the data from Color Kinetics software to the tile enabled Daniel to figure out how it worked. He has now created a Processing library that reads the pixels of the display window, converts them to a 12×12 matrix, and […]

Reporting on Friday Late: Transvision.

Jason Bruges Studio created Visual Echos for the transvision event. A very long table top like surface contained a matrix of leds, with a video camera at one end. As the camera captured images it took rgb values and changed the leds at one end, travelling down the surface like a […]

Reporting on Friday Late: Transvision.

One of my favorite pieces from the transvision night was a responsive LED sculpture by United Visual Artists. Installed in the John Madejski Garden, from afar looked like people worshiping the arrival of an alien spaceship, whilst up close you could feel the warmth of all those LEDs. As […]

Remember the DIY Disco Dancefloor? Well some more people have been buying up kit to build their own and documenting the process on their blogs.

First up is the Washington University IEEE Dance Floor Project -> link

and monkey see, monkey build -> link, with a great cost breakdown and documentation.
If you are mad enough to want […]

On Thursday I got to experience Kabaret’s Prophecy, along with Ruairi Glynn (interactive architecture blog). Created by United Visual Artists, this is an LED wall for a members only nightclub in London. UVA used 2968 Barco MiPix LED blocks and customised their Dragonfly2 software for the installation. They also provide a visual operator (VJ) […]

Troia is a wicked looking project by machine-performance group BBM and BlinkenArea, which appears to making an appearance at this years Future Sonic in Manchester. At the core of the building is a 14,5 metres long, 11 metres wide and 4,5 metres high room, which is equipped with 28416 pixels in total, spread over all […]

Following on from my last post, a group of student at MIT have made their own LED dancefloor. Hardcore soldering.
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