Monday, May 13, 2013 - 1:03pm
A new promotional installation in Europe by Nike allows visitors to watch as their movements are transformed into beautiful patterns of light and color.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 2:14pm
Visitor's to HP headquarters in Palo Alto will find quite the sight awaiting them: a motorized art installation titled "Manifold," which is half video wall and half room divider at the turn of a coin. The divider-side appears to be...
Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 10:50am
What happens when you lock a flock of 40 zebra finches into a closed museum space with a couple of live Gibson Les Paul electric guitars and other various musical instruments? Some might call it music, but unless these birds...
Friday, November 6, 2009 - 12:14pm
Urban Defender has gangs of players putting down the guns and knives and instead reaching for what looks like a glowing dodgeball. The objective here isn't to go after other people, though. You're aiming for buildings. The game apparently isn't...
- action
- art
- art installation
- automaker
- automotive
- design
- galleries
- gallery
- green tech
- industrial design
- sustainability
- Touchscreens
- Volkswagen
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 1:58pm
I know it looks crazy, but what you see up above is a photograph, not a conceptual render. That's "Level Green," a permanent installation in Volkswagen's Autostadt visitor center at their Wolfsburg, Germany factory built by Berlin-based J Mayer H...
- art
- art installation
- Babel
- Giulio Cappellini
- Ilaria Marelli
- italian
- italy
- Milan
- networks
- tivoli
- Tivoli Audio
- Tom DeVesto
- Tower of Babel
Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 4:32am
What business does a specialty audio supplier have at Milan Design Week 2009? Well, setting up the audio, I guess, but also erecting an over-15-foot tower made up of around 1,000 radios. Guess which of the two things Tivoli Audio...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 12:38pm
The Autonomous Living Unit is a design by Eduardo McIntosh that turns your average seat into a monster of media and relaxation. Well, it may not be too relaxing — what with its wicked look - but it does have...
- art
- art installation
- design
- microsoft
- multi-touch
- Multitouch
- programming
- software
- Strukt
- Struktable
- surface
- video
Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 11:45am
What would Microsoft's multitouch Surface table look like if a bunch of artists designed it? Well, if the Struktable is any indication, it'd have a lot less of the functionality — you know, being able to surf the web and...
Friday, January 30, 2009 - 11:15am
Don't feel like talking to your housemates? Send them a message with Messenger Light, an art piece by Jaeboem Jeong. Simply write your note on a sheet of transparent plastic, and put it in the special holder. Focus up, and...
Thursday, January 15, 2009 - 12:18pm
Some people want chandeliers worked over with precious metals, ornate carvings or layers of stained glass. Artist YaYa Chou, whose inner child is wholly intact, went for a chandelier covered by strings of Gummi Bears instead. Amazingly, the whole setup...
