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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 […]

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 […]

(photo sources 1/2) 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 […]

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 I […]

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, Dianne […]

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 shop exhibit. […]

[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 […]

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 […]