Revised Flash

New Flash Video

Storyboard

This is my Storyboard idea for my product.

Interesting Business Cards

The blog Core77 is holding its 1 Hour Design Challenge: Business Card Hacks. Designers are welcome to submit their ideas to make business cards more interesting. Currently, in my Visual Communications class, I am designing an identity for a wine bar, and feel like it is a great opportunity to explore unconventional designs for something as simple as a business card. Current entries include a business card that doubles as an Ipod holder and another is a pen holder.

http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/1_hour_design_challenge_highlight_inside_job_free_iphone_earbud_winder_13092.asp

Any Surface into an Interface

The "Sixth Sense" system designed by Patti Maes' Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab is a prototype that could greatly change to world of interactive design. Imagine being able to bring alive newspapers or frame out pictures with your fingertips and reducing buttons to finger gestures.

"The SixthSense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques."

http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/mits_wearable_sixth_sense_device_turns_any_surface_into_an_interface_13084.asp

MonkeyTown

Last week, I saw a segment on 7 ABC News in New York about the restaurant Monkeytown in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn. This eclectic place combines food with art and is well worth the visit. Dinner is served in a square room lined with lounge chairs and dinner is served on coffee tables. Videos are then projected on each of the four walls. Last month's dinner series was called the Color Palette Project which was a ten course meal, each course based on a different color. Artists were then hired to create videos inspired by each color. The food was amazing and the visuals went really well with the foods. I highly recommend it.

http://www.monkeytownhq.com/monkeytownhome.html

Mapping Innovation

McKinsey Digitial has gone through the process of analyzing Patent data and tracking the number, growth, and diversity of patents issude between the yearss 1997 to 2006. The information has been broken down into three different catagories: 'hot springs' are small, fast-growing hubs, 'dynamic oceans' consist of vibrant ecosystems with continuous creation, and 'silent lakes' have been unable to expand beyond their start-up core and are slowly migrating down the chain. The results are surprising with Kiel, Germany and Miyazaki, Japan, being the most up-and-coming innovations, while New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia lacking in innovation.

http://www.core77.com/blog/business/mckinsey_maps_the_worlds_innovation_clusters_12954.asp

http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/flash/innovation_clusters/