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Ten years of Critical Design!

 
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It is now ten years since Anthony Dunne published the "Hertzian Tales". We might count it as the official birthday of Critical Design. I would like to take this anniversary as an opportunity to look back: What has happened to design practice and theory during the last decade due to the book, and the projects? What have we learned? What do we miss? Where does the critique lead us? How does it help? Does it help? [more...]

Skizzenblog is on the line!

On Skizzenblog, visual discussions about interaction design take place--solely by sketching. So if you're engaged in the human-computer-interaction thing why not engage? [more...]

3D printing, the next revolution?

 
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Last week was the Euromold fair for prototyping, engineering and design in Frankfurt. [more...]

Iso-Phone

The Isophone is essentially a telecommunications device providing a service that can be described simply as a meeting of the teleph [more...]

Accessories for lonely men

Noam Toran hat das Zubehör für einsame Männer erschaffen, Geräte, die als Ersatz für die Verflossene dienen können. [more...]

Quilt

Quilt is a washable quilt which acts as a record and playback device: each square holds sound, which is recordable and playable simply through to [more...]

The history tablecloth

Das History Tablecloth ist ein interaktiver, gewichtssensitiver Tisch. [more...]

The Home Health Horoscope

The Home Health Horoscope is a system that tracks activity patterns in the home and prints out a horoscope for the inhabitant every morning. [more...]

Katazukue

Katazukue ist ein Tisch, der sicherstellt, dass er immer aufgeräumt ist. [more...]

The key table

Der key table ist ein gewichtssensitiver Tisch. [more...]

The drift table

Der drift table zeigt auf einem kleinen, runden Bildschirm in seiner Mitte den Teil eines Satellitenbildes [more...]

The GPS table

Der GPS-Tisch kennt seine genaue Position in der Welt. [more...]

The Placebo Project

The Placebo project is an experiment in taking conceptual design beyond the gallery into everyday life. [more...]

Interview with Bill Gaver

 

Together with Tony Dunne and Elena Pacenti, Bill Gaver developed the cultural probes. [more...]