Typographic Design in the Digital Domain: with Erik Spiekermann and Elliot Jay Stocks
Metro, the design paradigm behind Windows Phone is in part, a celebration of typography. In this short film, godfather of modern type, Erik Spiekermann talks with Elliot Jay Stocks about how typography is used in the digital domain and what…
Navigation with way-finding graphics: a conversation with Tony Howard
Metro is hugely inspired by the way-finding graphics that guide us round airports and railway stations. For this short film, I approached Tony Howard, the Managing Director of the London based Transport Design Consultancy to discuss his approach to way-finding…
The Internet of Social Things
Here’s a talk I gave at the SoCon 2011 conference last month – you’ll need to give it a few seconds (maybe about 30 seconds in reality) to load, the player doesn’t appear immediately for some reason. The essence of…
The ultimate gaming experience? Battlefield 3 Simulator from The Gadget Show (video)
This rig would run into tens of thousands of pounds to build and I love the Gadget Show for going to such extremes with this one. I would SO build one myself if I had the time / money /…
Typical is always relative, but out of 7 billion people, are you typical?
Given all the talk last week that we (the human race) had surpassed 7 billion on the counter I was reminded by this film from National Geographic. Key for me in this is that like anything, you have to look…
Schrödinger’s Cat in 60 seconds
Erwin Schrödinger on quantum mechanics: “I don’t like it, and I’m sorry I ever had anything to do with it.” Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous
A game of real life Portal anyone? Augmenting Indoor Spaces with intelligent projection
Now of course, the hardware in this example is unnatural right now, but these are prototypes and as such have incredible implications to the future of interaction – the hardware would be the least of my problems working on a…
Robot solves the Rubik’s Cube puzzle faster than the human world record
Oh, and there’s LEGO involved. Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous
Utter disbelief. All sorts of freaks in the world (video).
Utter disbelief. I’m not going to think for a second about what he does in his spare time. Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous
Stop a Real Contagion
How do I end up getting emails like this? Sent from my Windows Phone From: David R. Jones, The Community Service Society Sent: 07/10/2011 12:01To: Georgina Byrne Subject: Stop a Real Contagion View email online October 7, 2011 | WWW.CSSNY.ORG…