April 25, 2005
Searchscapes || Manhattan
Each person constructs his/her image of the city. This image is made out of facts, memories, experiences, stories, news - mostly invisible data, and not only of architecture, buildings and streets. "SEARCHSCAPES: MANHATTAN" is an attempt to create a tridimensional map of Manhattan, using existing data from the web. The objective is to compare the city's "physical spaces" and "information spaces" (search results). This is an attempt to materialize information: to give it dimension and physicality.
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Posted by richard ting at April 25, 2005, 06:40 PM
Rebound Designs
[from core77.com]
In the spirit of freitag, meet rebound, the custom made purse from real books. Each one takes 8-10 hours to produce not including sourcing the book and and fabric. These purses are all made from real old hardback books, the pages are removed and the cover is left intact. The spine becomes the bottom of the purse, so the longer the book, the wider the purse.
Check out the site.
Posted by richard ting at April 25, 2005, 01:17 PM
April 24, 2005
Target's new prescription bottle
[from core77.com]
New York Magazine has a detailed design case study on Target's new prescription bottle. The bottle is part of the ClearRx prescription packaging system, which is based on original designs developed and patented by Deborah Adler, a 29-year-old graphic designer. The final design of the new bottle was developed by Klaus Rosburg of SONIC Design, who worked with Target and Adler over several months to fully develop the system. The new bottle will be widely available beginning May 1.
Posted by richard ting at April 24, 2005, 12:18 AM
April 23, 2005
INVITE TO RES 10 EXHIBITION
R E S 1 0 E V E N T N Y C
Thursday, April 28 8-11 pm
467 Greenwich St. #6 (1 block below Canal)
RSVP to events@res.com
RES invites you to experience this year's RES 10 in person as we celebrate the work of artists, designers, directors and musicians chosen by the staff of RES as the most interesting to watch in 2005.
The 2005 RES 10 includes:
T A L M A G E C O O L E Y
R A M O N & P E D R O
I N S T I T U T E F O R A P P L I E D A U T O N O M Y
D J / R U P T U R E
N A G I N O D A
N E I L L B L O M K A M P
M. I. A.
K O I C H I R O T S U J I K A W A
S O F A K E
S A I M A N C H O W
By invitation only. RSVP to events@res.com
Posted by richard ting at April 23, 2005, 11:15 AM
April 22, 2005
Creative Time presents Look and See by Jim Hodges
Celebrate the opening of Jim Hodges' Look and See with your friends at Creative Time.
Thursday, May 5th from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
The Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park
(Two West Street @ Battery Place)
Jim Hodges' new 9-ton sculpture, Look and See, is a camouflage curtain that transports visitors to a refractive environment fusing their own fluid image with the opposing landscapes of skyscrapers and nature in Lower Manhattan. Hodges transforms materials explored in previous works-shattered mirrors, cutouts, and camouflage-and combines them with stainless steel for the first time, pushing his practice into new terrain.
Jim Hodges is the fifth artist to participate in Creative Time's Art on the Plaza, following internationally acclaimed artists Jim Campbell, Gary Hume, Zhang Huan, and Shirazeh Houshiary & Pip Horne. Art on the Plaza is an ongoing public sculpture series presented at The Ritz-Carlton in Battery Park in cooperation with Millennium Partners and The Battery Park City Authority.
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Posted by richard ting at April 22, 2005, 12:04 PM
April 14, 2005
shopping mall + social networking
Is this site really necessary? I know that social networking is hot and everybody wants to connect to their various affinity groups, but connecting through a virtual mall just seems sad. Yub's an online mall and social network that connects people and products. Yub currently carries over 2,787,219 products in it's catalog, but more importantly, it gives the socially retarded a place to hang out and 'be themselves'.
Check out the site.
Posted by richard ting at April 14, 2005, 07:00 PM
April 13, 2005
psp :: a fairy tale
Here's a nice, clean, premium brand experience from Sony PSP Korea.
Check out the site.
Posted by richard ting at April 13, 2005, 06:44 PM
April 07, 2005
Amazon's new product page
[from 37signals]
It looks like Amazon is trying a new book detail page. The new page sports a huge 400px tall book cover, a cleaned up and stacked page layout (each section takes the full width of the page and is bordered by dashed lines, revised typography with bigger type for headlines, more consistent treatment of section headers, a revised buy box, and more. They even lost the sidebar. This new design definitely puts the focus on the book first and the rest of the site second. Interesting direction. Here’s a screenshot if they change it or if you can’t see it.
