In sum, the Creative Commons toolset encourages and enables participation in creativity by everyone, not only those with access to copyright lawyers. This is as it should be in modern democracies, where the tools for expression and creativity are available to everyone as everyday consumer goods. / flyer
Bush Pilot Johannes Schlüter
Walkie-Talkie Phone AK-47
A new, $225 cell phone is designed to look like an old school Communist China Red army walkie talkie . It works as a walkie talkie, too.
Tell the European Parliament to Fix IPRED2
On April 24th, the European Parliament will vote on IPRED2, the Second Intellectual Property Enforcement Directive. With one stroke, they risk turning thousands of innocent EU citizens and businesses into copycriminals. Sign the petition now!
(...) The medium of the interaction designer is computation: software and electronics. Until recently, this medium was only accessible to engineers: designers weren’t able to work directly with programming and electronics to develop and test their ideas. (...). The software and hardware they [Ivrea&collaborators] have built, used in many of the Institute’s projects, allows designers to be truly creative in this new medium.
Gillian Crampton Smith
Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design helps us to understand a product.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is durable.
Good design is consequent to the last detail.
Good design is concerned with the environment.
Good design is as little design as possible.
Back to purity, back to simplicity.
Urban interface | Berlin
Vom 15. April bis zum 6. Mai 2007 präsentiert das Projekt in den Stadtteilen Berlin-Mitte, Wedding und Gesundbrunnen künstlerische Arbeiten, die das sich wandelnde Verständnis von Öffentlichkeit und Privatheit beleuchten.
According to the latest studies, Britain has a staggering 4.2million CCTV cameras – one for every 14 people in the country – and 20 per cent of cameras globally. It has been calculated that each person is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily.
(George Orwell, Big Brother is watching your house, thisislondon.co.uk)
Apple’s Knowledge Navigator (1987)
In 1987 Apple Computer produced a concept video for a hypothetical product called the Knowledge Navigator.
