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Joshua Davis is still ‘tha man’.

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Visit Joshua Davis’ website and you see that he is still as active as ever. He still holds exhibits, seminars, lectures, and has time to work on high profile clients like BMW. He recently came to manila to talk to a thousand filipino aspiring and professional designers. I heard he was his [...]

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Velluminous

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

While on the topic of ex-IDII people, I just discovered david lu’s missing site. He seemed to have moved from his david-lu.net address to the new one: velluminous Which I guess makes sense since his is the “boy who loved vellum” :)

I think our batch looked up to david as one of the [...]

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Holy Smokes!

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

Been wanting to post this excellent photography site which showcases “colored smoke” photography.  I can imagine how hard it is to capture these images.  There are some post-production involved but what the heck, the images are magnificent!

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MIT Media Lab’s OpenCode

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

I’m always fascinated by the projects that come out of MIT Media Lab, specifically those of John Maeda’s groups. OpenCode is an initiative of his PLW group. According to the website:
“At it’s core, OpenCode is a Web-based programming tool. It’s simple, elegant, and lightweight. OpenCode is a web-based programming environment that leverages the user [...]

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Tunnel Vision

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

While driving through the numerous underpass and tunnels during the traffic holidays, I’ve noticed a nice visual:

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Touch Screen Interface

Friday, December 15th, 2006

While I was reading the November issue of I.D., one of my favorite magazines, I came across a small article about the multi-touch screen interface by Jeff Han. I saw a video of this a while back and it was big on YouTube. It was interesting… but what interests me more are the [...]

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Heat Signals

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

Searched the web for the term heat signals… but found out what I actually wanted to look for was “Thermography.” Here are some nice visual pegs kept here for future reference. Note to self: the key is in the interaction.

This one reminded me of Levin and Reas’ old work Dakadaka

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